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Republicans Are Rattled by the UAW’s Big VW Victory in Chattanooga

I can’t account for the mainstream press’s peculiar impulse to downplay the United Auto Workers’ important victory Friday at a Volkswagen plant...

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The Case for High Interest Rates

If the United States economy is an old Chuck Jones Warner Brothers cartoon—and who’s to say it isn’t?—then Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...

19.04.2024 5

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Yes, Joe Biden Can Win the Working-Class Vote

Last year, a team working for Navin Nayak, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the advocacy arm of the liberal nonprofit Center...

18.04.2024 5

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The Republican Plot to Roast Outdoor Workers

Republicans finally recognize the threat posed by climate change. The threat is that rising temperatures will tempt local governments to impose...

17.04.2024 10

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Psst. Biden Didn’t Really Close the Gun-Show Loophole

“The ‘gun-show loophole,’ at least at the federal level, is unlikely to be closed anytime soon,” Business Insider’s Charles R....

12.04.2024 8

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Biden’s Vulnerability With Young Voters May Not Cost Him in 2024

President Joe Biden has a problem with young voters. He’s addressing this problem: This week he put forward an ambitious proposal to extend student...

10.04.2024 7

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Trump Has Hocked Himself to the Repo Man

When a business lends money to a guy who (a) routinely stiffs his creditors and (b) may become president within the next nine months, that merits a...

03.04.2024 20

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Trump’s Truth Social Play Is Already Failing

On the day after Easter, Donald Trump, who likes to compare himself to Jesus Christ, told the truth about his social-network platform Truth Social,...

02.04.2024 10

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What the Respectable Right Fears Most About a Trump Win: Angry Libs

Liberals lately have been imagining, with some trepidation, what a second Donald Trump administration might look like. The Atlantic devoted its...

01.04.2024 4

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Trump’s Unbearable Temptation to Dump His Truth Social Stock

Remember in Godfather II when the mobster Hyman Roth tells Michael Corleone, his co-investor in President Fulgencio Batista’s Cuba, “Michael,...

28.03.2024 20

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Trump Might Be Too Broke for a $175 Million Bond, Too

25.03.2024 3

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Trump’s $454 Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception

Is New York State treating Donald Trump differently than other real estate scofflaws in requiring him to disgorge $454 million by Monday? Yes. Would...

22.03.2024 8

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Trump’s Epic Struggle to Pay His $454 Million Fraud Penalty

“Thank you for calling Brunswick Companies,” the recorded message said. “For bonds $500,000 and higher, press one.”  I pressed one and got...

20.03.2024 20

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Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?

18.03.2024 4

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Biden Is Daring Republicans to Oppose Soaking the Rich

You may have noticed that President Biden didn’t spend much of last week’s State of the Union address talking about new policy proposals in his...

12.03.2024 3

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The Stealth Budget Cuts Imperiling the Biden Anti-Trust Agenda

In more ways more than one, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, created a trust problem earlier this week when her subcommittee bill...

08.03.2024 2

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The IRS Is Starting to Nail Millionaire Tax Cheats

It’s always mystified me why Republicans think defunding the Internal Revenue Service is a political winner. Granted, voters are terrified of the...

06.03.2024 2

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The FTC Says a Giant Supermarket Merger Will Screw Workers—Along With Customers

Two disappointing omissions from the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Amazon last October were the words “wages” and...

27.02.2024 5

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Stop This Ruinous Albertsons-Kroger Merger

Should the Albertsons and Kroger supermarket chains be permitted to merge? If you live in the Northeast, you might say, “Sure, why not?” Odds are...

23.02.2024 10

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Quit Hating on California

If you grew up in California in the 1970s, as I did from the age of 12, and then moved someplace else, you fielded a lot of wisecracks. California was...

15.02.2024 7

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Affirmative Action Is Dead, and Inequality Is Still Crushing Workers

The whitest thing you can be, occupationally, in America, is an agricultural manager. That isn’t a stereotype. It’s a statistical fact, according...

13.02.2024 10

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Why Big Tech Loves To Lay Off Workers

“We have a strong economy,” Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes on Sunday’s broadcast. “Growth is...

07.02.2024 4

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That Judge Is Right. Elon Musk Isn’t Worth What Tesla Pays Him.

For the second year in a row, Fortune’s annual survey of chief executives has designated Elon Musk—who is the richest person in the United...

01.02.2024 7

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Amazon Doesn’t Get What It Wants, for Once

After Amazon walked away Monday from a $1.4 billion deal to acquire iRobot, the company that makes Roomba self-operating vacuum cleaners, iRobot...

30.01.2024 2

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America’s Rent Crisis Is Getting Worse

The rule of thumb for housing, financial experts will tell you, is that you aren’t supposed to pay more than 25 percent of your income in monthly...

27.01.2024 3

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Let’s Abolish the $100 Bill

Did you know that the United States now produces more $100 bills than any other denomination? “The $100 bill overtook the $1 bill … six years...

24.01.2024 9

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The AI Bot Version of Dean Phillips Is Way Better Than the Real Thing

DAVOS, Switzerland—Oligarchs gathered at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in the snowy Alps cackled gleefully as they plotted to make the...

20.01.2024 5

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The Supreme Court Sounds Eager to Break the Government for Good

So far as poetry can be regarded altogether dispassionately, so far as it is an external object for examination, it is dead poetry and not worth...

18.01.2024 4

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Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation?

In February 2017, Steve Bannon, then chief strategist of the Trump White House, pledged that the new administration would commit itself to “the...

17.01.2024 5

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The GOP Is Dying. Time for a Whig Revival?

Liz Cheney declared Wednesday that the GOP is finished. “The Republican Party,” she said on ABC’s The View, is  clearly so caught up in this...

12.01.2024 3

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Bill Ackman’s Plagiarism Hypocrisy Is Stratospheric

Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his...

10.01.2024 7

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Elon Musk’s Odious One-Man War Against Labor Law Just May Succeed

When the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, dings a corporation for a labor violation, the typical chief executive’s response is to shrug and...

08.01.2024 30

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The Economists Who Found the Richest People of All Time

In late September 1066, William of Normandy asked his second cousin, Alan Rufus ( en français:  Alain le Roux), to join the Normans’ fateful war...

03.01.2024 4

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Claudine Gay’s Resignation Shines a Light on the Academic Hypocrisies of Elite Universities

I wish I could say that Harvard’s first Black president, recently the victim of an outrageous campaign led by hedge fund big shot Bill Ackman over...

03.01.2024 10

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How Corporate America’s Obsession With Creativity Wrecked the World and Brought Us Elon Musk

Who is the most creative human being who ever lived? These days, if you put the question to Google, it will spit back a dispiriting answer: Elon Musk....

30.12.2023 7

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Hero of the Year: Shawn Fain

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty tired of all the villains who dominated the headlines in 2023, starting with Donald Trump. Aren’t...

29.12.2023 20

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Nikki Haley Somehow Made Her Civil War Gaffe Even Worse

The whiggish conceit that history is one long march toward progress is tested sorely by the 189-year trajectory of the Republican Party. Founded in...

29.12.2023 30

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Let’s Make Taxes Five Times Higher

“The Era of Big Taxes Is Upon Us” announced a Wall Street Journal headline earlier this week. You could have fooled me. In 1980, according...

21.12.2023 6

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How to Tip During the Revolt Against Tipping

Is tipping a matter of etiquette or ethics? Confusion on this point animates what Rachel Wolfe, writing last week in The Wall Street Journal,...

19.12.2023 3

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That Insufferable Billionaire Tyrannizing Harvard Enriches Himself by Tyrannizing the Bond Market

Bill Ackman, chief executive of the giant hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, is getting a lot of bad press right now for his vicious...

15.12.2023 5

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Why The “Rich-cession” Is Another Triumph for Bidenomics

Hello, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences? Please consider me for next year’s Nobel in economics for what I expect will be quoted widely as Noah’s...

11.12.2023 9

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Biden to Big Pharma: Gouge Prices and We’ll Snatch Your Patents

When Joe Biden was elected president, Medicare was barred by law from negotiating the prices it paid for the drugs it purchased with taxpayer dollars....

08.12.2023 5

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A New Way to Stop Trump: Boycott the Son of a Bitch

I still can’t bring myself to believe that Donald Trump, the Queens-born proto-fascist who blundered his way into the presidency in 2016, will again...

05.12.2023 2

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The Next Supreme Court Danger: Trashing One-Third of the Tax Code

“If men were angels,” James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “no government would be necessary.” Similarly, if men were angels, we wouldn’t...

04.12.2023 4

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The GOP Showed Again How Anti-Worker It Really Is

If, as Senator Marco Rubio said last year, “GOP voters are working-class Americans, and they are changing the party,” the House Education and the...

01.12.2023 20

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Remembering Charlie Peters

In the winter of 1983, I was 25 and working at The New York Times as an editor on the op-ed page. In those days the Times ’s staff for editing...

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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.

On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five...

22.11.2023 4

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Even Bank Workers Want to Unionize Now

The embourgeoisement of organized labor proceeds at a fast clip. Graduate students, adjunct professors, digital journalists, congressional staffers,...

22.11.2023 20

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This Is Biden’s Soft Landing, and He Deserves Some Credit

If the stock market chose presidents, Joe Biden would be a shoo-in for reelection in 2024. The market rallied this month amid growing optimism about...

17.11.2023 30

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Let’s Give Black World War II Vets What We Promised

In 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, popularly known as the G.I. Bill. The G.I. Bill doubled the...

10.11.2023 2

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