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Taxing unrealized capital gains is a desperation move. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the Eisenhower Executive Office...
Kamala Harris can’t count on adding 3 million houses to the market by 2028. Houses under construction in Brambleton, Va. (Andrew...
Too many efforts to weed out falsehoods have been marred by politics. A viewer watches Elon Musk's interview with Donald Trump on X on...
Opinion What will the Google antitrust ruling mean for search — and all of us? Creating more competition could be good for everyone, including...
On Monday, bitcoin did the opposite of what it’s supposed to do. Coin renderings of cryptocurrencies bitcoin, dash, ethereum, ripple and...
No one was harmed, and the suspect is in custody. What remains is the symbolism. Secret Service agents at the Republican National Convention...
The days of America’s manufacturing boom are gone for good. Refrigerators are seen at a Lowe's outlet store in Miami in 2022. (Joe...
Big tech companies can be more useful than many small ones — until something goes wrong. Travelers at Austin's international airport...
Capping rents dampens an essential signal to developers to build more housing units. A "For Rent" sign outside a Sacramento apartment...
Trump’s choice will reverberate in the party for years. J.D. Vance speaks at a press conference in New York on May 13. (Stefan Jeremiah/AP,...
There’s only one path that can prevent another failure. President Biden speaks to reporters at the White House on Feb 8. (Tom Brenner for...
The Democratic Party has time to make a better choice. President Biden steps out of a Jeep Wrangler after a test drive in August 2021....
We need to know whether treatments benefit most children who receive them. One patient's prescription testosterone supply in Thomasville, Ala....
Let’s ditch this sop to the rich. (Gerry Broome/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story Comment ...
The acquisition is one way to ensure a market remains for films best seen in theaters. A moviegoer waits inside an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in...
If it can’t be done in New York City, it probably can’t be done anywhere else in America. Traffic from Brooklyn enters Manhattan over the...
Why exclusive schools are excluding inclusion. A gate at Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass. (iStock) Listen 5 min ...
The world is rich with the things he left behind. Megan McArdle and her father at her wedding in 2010. (Katie Carney) (Photo by Katie Carney) ...
Lies, damned lies and arguments over a silly video. A female grizzly bear photographed by an automatic trail camera in northwestern Montana in...
Protesters face off against security forces on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday. (David Swanson/Reuters) Listen 5 min ...
Will professionals displaced by AI find new jobs in health care? (iStock) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...
A demonstrator at the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University in New York on Wednesday. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) ...
Pam Satterthwaite sits in her car as protesters block traffic along a highway in Oakland, Calif., on Monday. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/AP) ...
Federal Reserve workers in 1957. (Library of Congress) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story Comment ...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects the federal government will be awash in debt over the next 30 years. (Matt Slocum/AP) ...
Americans want the housing market to get back to what they think of as normal. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Listen 5 min ...
A BP Pulse Gigahub charging station in Houston on Wednesday. (Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
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A student looks for a seat before a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 22. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Listen 5 min ...
The TikTok app logo. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add...
A transgender American youth. (Rory Doyle for The Washington Post) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story ...
Shoppers enter Macy's in San Francisco on Tuesday. The company announced plans to close 150 locations. (Benjamin Fanjoy/San Francisco Chronicle/AP) ...
Google Gemini makes unrealistic assumptions about race and politics. (Omar Marques/Sipa USA/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
State legislatures struggle to set ideal income-tax rates. (Todd Richmond/AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this...
An ESPN camera operator works on the field during the National Football League's Pro Bowl on Feb. 4 in Orlando. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP) ...
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Like game designers, policymakers need to watch for "metas." (Ricardo Arduengo/ALSAC) Listen 6 min Share Comment on...
Former president Donald Trump and President Biden. (Matt Rourke/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story ...
The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House. (Mary Altaffer/AP) ...
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved bitcoin exchange-traded funds in January. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic) Listen 5 min ...
A shattered convenience store window on H Street in D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share ...
The John Harvard statue on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Steven Senne/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
It took some courage for a woman to force the all-male Cosmos Club to let her walk through the front door. (Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post) ...
Pro-life advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
Bird scooters are strewn on a street in Hollywood (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this...
A "sale pending" sign in front of a property in San Francisco in April. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on...