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It was “an absurd notion,” “not helpful to the cause” and “not helpful to the country.” So said House Speaker Mike Johnson, after his own...
President Joe Biden deserves praise for recognizing the urgency of climate change. He has done less well adapting to setbacks and political realities....
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Next time you ask ChatGPT for a lasagna recipe, consider how much computing power you’re using: On a typical day, the AI chatbot handles an...
Though largely thwarted by Israel and its allies, the assault launched by Iran against the Jewish state over the weekend was a powerful reminder that...
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The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of US government borrowing is...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is rightly being feted in Washington this week as leader of America’s closest ally in Asia. But Japan is...
President Joe Biden’s botched rollout of a revamped financial aid form reveals a stunning lack of managerial competence. It has left colleges unable...
Ever since the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, US planners have worried militant groups might again use the...
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Ever since the US Navy slashed telegraph links between Spain and Cuba during the Spanish-American War, countries have appreciated the strategic value...
Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too — but quickly, in car...
You might not have heard of Pfandbriefbank. Yet the small German mortgage lender offers a valuable cautionary tale about how global crises happen, and...
America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously...
Amid the US’s 20-year war against the Taliban, Afghans who feared retribution for aiding US troops were promised refuge in America, as long as they...
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On April 1, California’s new law setting minimum wages for fast-food workers goes into effect. It’s a bewildering measure in several respects and,...
For more than two years, Vladimir Putin’s bluster, blame and threats of escalation have been driven by a singular goal: deterring and discouraging...
From computers to data analytics, technology has helped accountants be more accurate and productive. Now — just as businesses bemoan a lack of...
One big reason the global financial system nearly collapsed in 2008 was that banks had shifted risks into the shadows, relying on insurance-like...
Congress’ monthslong budget fight seems likely to culminate soon. Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a package of bills in early March to fund key...
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Having won a sham election last weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin has resumed warning the West that it risks a direct conflict with Russia...
A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a “bump stock” can fire at a rate of up to 800 rounds a minute. Does that make it a machine gun? Joe Biden and...
TikTok — the Chinese-owned video-sharing app that is, not incidentally, banned in China — is once again in Congress’s crosshairs. It should be...
President Joe Biden’s new budget isn’t going anywhere. Policy for the current fiscal year is in disarray, to say nothing of the one that starts...
Investors want to understand the risks and costs that companies face as they adapt to climate change. A new Securities and Exchange Commission rule...
Recent test results confirm a dispiriting reality: America’s students continue to lag far behind their peers around the world, and millions are...
The UK economy may be growing again, if slowly. But as they head toward a general election, both of Britain’s main political parties are promising...
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have strained US weapons stockpiles and raised alarm about the state of the country’s defense-industrial...
Over the past three years, the surge of unauthorized immigrants crossing the southern border has overwhelmed local communities, strained the resources...
At one point, last week’s 13th biennial conference of the World Trade Organization looked as though it might be the last. Talks dragged fruitlessly...
Belatedly, Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill protecting access to in vitro fertilization. The measure came two weeks after the state Supreme Court...
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America’s public pension funds have gotten themselves into a bind. They’re responsible for paying trillions of dollars in future retirement...
When banks get into trouble, it often comes as a shock. Then the problems seem obvious in hindsight — if only managers and supervisors had been...
It sounds like a Bond villain’s experiment: As Bloomberg News reported last week, Russia may soon station a nuclear weapon in orbit, aiming to hold...
French President Emmanuel Macron caught many by surprise this week when he suggested sending ground troops to Ukraine. That’s unlikely to happen,...
With lawmakers continuing to wrangle over a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, little attention has been paid to the possible...
Perhaps inevitably, the 2024 presidential campaign is quickly becoming a clash of first principles, one that will require repeating basic facts about...
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Four years since the Covid pandemic began, many US school districts are hurtling toward a fiscal crisis. An exodus of students and the pending...
Germany’s leaders are suffering the worst crisis of confidence in decades. The right response is both obvious and daunting to achieve: Give people a...
As New York Community Bancorp Inc. scrambles to shore up its capital to deal with potential loan losses, analysts are watching to see if depositors...
The glimmer of hope that Congress might pass a bipartisan border-security bill has been extinguished, at least for now. In killing immigration reforms...
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Special purpose acquisition companies have for too long existed in a regulatory gray area. With new rules approved last month, the Securities and...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s agreement to lift his hold on €50 billion of financial support for Ukraine marks an important victory for...