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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...
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...
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...
In a contrarian news analysis published earlier this week, David Leonhardt of The New York Times argued that a “flurry of bipartisanship” in...
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...
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...
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...
The Biden economy is in excellent shape, and that’s a problem for what my onetime boss Jacob Weisberg wittily labelled the Conintern....
The United States is experiencing an invisible crime spree—by employers. Since 2014, the number of children employed in violation of labor law has...
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...
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...
April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working...
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....