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I can’t account for the mainstream press’s peculiar impulse to downplay the United Auto Workers’ important victory Friday at a Volkswagen plant...
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...
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...
Republicans finally recognize the threat posed by climate change. The threat is that rising temperatures will tempt local governments to impose...
“The ‘gun-show loophole,’ at least at the federal level, is unlikely to be closed anytime soon,” Business Insider’s Charles R....
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...
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...
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,...
Liberals lately have been imagining, with some trepidation, what a second Donald Trump administration might look like. The Atlantic devoted its...
Remember in Godfather II when the mobster Hyman Roth tells Michael Corleone, his co-investor in President Fulgencio Batista’s Cuba, “Michael,...
Is New York State treating Donald Trump differently than other real estate scofflaws in requiring him to disgorge $454 million by Monday? Yes. Would...
“Thank you for calling Brunswick Companies,” the recorded message said. “For bonds $500,000 and higher, press one.” I pressed one and got...
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...
In more ways more than one, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, created a trust problem earlier this week when her subcommittee bill...
It’s always mystified me why Republicans think defunding the Internal Revenue Service is a political winner. Granted, voters are terrified of the...
Two disappointing omissions from the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Amazon last October were the words “wages” and...
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...
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...
The whitest thing you can be, occupationally, in America, is an agricultural manager. That isn’t a stereotype. It’s a statistical fact, according...
“We have a strong economy,” Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes on Sunday’s broadcast. “Growth is...
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...
After Amazon walked away Monday from a $1.4 billion deal to acquire iRobot, the company that makes Roomba self-operating vacuum cleaners, iRobot...
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...
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...
DAVOS, Switzerland—Oligarchs gathered at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in the snowy Alps cackled gleefully as they plotted to make the...
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...
In February 2017, Steve Bannon, then chief strategist of the Trump White House, pledged that the new administration would commit itself to “the...
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...
Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his...
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...
In late September 1066, William of Normandy asked his second cousin, Alan Rufus ( en français: Alain le Roux), to join the Normans’ fateful war...
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...
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....
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...
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...
“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...
Is tipping a matter of etiquette or ethics? Confusion on this point animates what Rachel Wolfe, writing last week in The Wall Street Journal,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
“If men were angels,” James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “no government would be necessary.” Similarly, if men were angels, we wouldn’t...
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...
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...
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...
The embourgeoisement of organized labor proceeds at a fast clip. Graduate students, adjunct professors, digital journalists, congressional staffers,...
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...
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...