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Want Better Ethics in Congress? Pay Them More.

Did you know that there are two exchange traded funds, or ETFs, that track investments made by members of Congress and their spouses? They are...

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Lock Him Up!: Why Donald Trump Should Do Jail Time Before the Election

Donald Trump stands convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. That’s a class E felony. New York State sentencing...

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For Wall Street Billionaires, This Election Is About One Thing

Donald Trump wants voters to stay incensed about inflation, even though President Joe Biden has brought inflation down to 3.4 percent from a peak of...

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Everybody Hates Ticketmaster

In a contrarian news analysis published earlier this week, David Leonhardt of The New York Times argued that a “flurry of bipartisanship” in...

24.05.2024 20

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Here’s What Trump and the GOP Really Think About the Working Class

The Republican Party is doing amazingly well with the working class. A New York Times/Siena poll last month found 53 percent of likely voters without...

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L. Brent “Zeeker” Bozell IV Had It Coming

Lord knows when Donald Trump will stand trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election. There’s no trial date set for the Georgia case or the...

21.05.2024 30

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There’s Good News About the Labor Movement in the South

Did you know that Jesus Christ didn’t want two Mercedes-Benz plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to unionize? Or anyway, the union was opposed by His...

20.05.2024 20

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The Problem With Starting (Another) Trade War With China

15.05.2024 20

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Donald Trump Is Short on Cash—and Selling Laws to Anyone Who Will Pay

10.05.2024 50

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Biden, Fire Bank Regulator Martin Gruenberg

09.05.2024 10

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The Right Is Now Saying Biden’s Creating the Wrong Jobs

The Biden economy is in excellent shape, and that’s a problem for what my onetime boss Jacob Weisberg wittily labelled the Conintern....

07.05.2024 50

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The Real Crime Spree: Employers Swindling Workers

The United States is experiencing an invisible crime spree—by employers. Since 2014, the number of children employed in violation of labor law has...

03.05.2024 10

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What Would Trump Do in a Second Term? Even He Has No Clue.

Time magazine has just published a cover story about what Donald Trump will do if he wins the presidency. It’s an important question, and staff...

01.05.2024 30

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Louisiana Republicans Love Child Labor, Hate Lunch Breaks

Nobody expects to find good government in what A.J. Liebling famously termed “the GRET Stet of Loosiana,” but it surprised me to learn that the...

29.04.2024 40

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Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working...

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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...

23.04.2024 20

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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 8

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 40

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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 20

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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 40

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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 5

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 40

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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 20

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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 20

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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 5

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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 7

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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