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Firing Immigration Judges Threatens More Than Immigrants

Firing Immigration Judges Threatens More Than Immigrants

The Trump administration’s latest outrage is firing immigration judges and replacing them with military lawyers who lack experience in immigration...

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Noah Feldman

Why Minnesota Is the White House’s New Punching Bag

Why Minnesota Is the White House’s New Punching Bag

President Donald Trump is turning the full force of the federal government on Minnesota and its Democratic Governor Tim Walz with a stunning series...

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Patricia Lopez

Private Credit Woes Should Put Banks on Notice

Private Credit Woes Should Put Banks on Notice

How worried should the US be about private credit? Already this year, more than 1 in 10 private credit borrowers are deferring cash interest...

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Editorial Board

Vance’s Mentor Is Also His Millstone

Vance’s Mentor Is Also His Millstone

Vice President JD Vance’s political rise has been as meteoric as it has been unlikely. In less than a decade, Vance has transformed himself from a...

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Nia-Malika Henderson

China’s Push Against Japan’s Soft Power Will Backfire

China’s Push Against Japan’s Soft Power Will Backfire

China has tried many tactics to isolate Japan over the past month, from letters to the United Nations to courting France and Russia. Now, it has...

04.12.2025 10

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Gearoid Reidy

The Miss Universe Pageant Is a Hot Mess and That’s Good for Business

The Miss Universe Pageant Is a Hot Mess and That’s Good for Business

If your social media feeds are driven by similar algorithms to mine, you’ll know that the Miss Universe contest hasn’t completely ended despite a...

04.12.2025 3

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Howard Chua-Eoan

AI Companies Need One Book to Rule Them All

AI Companies Need One Book to Rule Them All

By most metrics, the artificial intelligence industry is thriving. As of last year, it had attracted about $150 billion in private investment....

04.12.2025 2

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Editorial Board

An Old-Fashioned Cure for Fading Trust in Government

An Old-Fashioned Cure for Fading Trust in Government

Across much of the industrial world, trust in government is low and declining. Why is this happening and why, exactly, does it matter? An unusually...

04.12.2025 4

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Clive Crook

Are We in a Stock Bubble? This Is the Only Thread You Need

04.12.2025 4

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Jonathan Levin And Taylor Tyson

A $2,000 Tariff Dividend for Everyone? Bad Idea

A $2,000 Tariff Dividend for Everyone? Bad Idea

Unsustainable government borrowing has already put the economy on course for fiscal breakdown — but don’t discount Washington’s ability to make...

03.12.2025 2

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Editorial Board

Why Southeast Asia Trusts Japan More Than China

Why Southeast Asia Trusts Japan More Than China

China is remaking Asia’s security map, but not in the way it intends. From water cannon confrontations in the South China Sea to increasingly sharp...

03.12.2025 20

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Karishma Vaswani

Tariffs Are Making Rates Descent a Lot Trickier

Tariffs Are Making Rates Descent a Lot Trickier

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Central banks have been embarked on the hazardous climb down from...

03.12.2025 6

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John Authers And Richard Abbey

How to Get Russia’s Billions to Ukraine

03.12.2025 7

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James Stavridis

Trump Has Lost His Political Superpower

Trump Has Lost His Political Superpower

How low can President Donald Trump go? One answer is his Thanksgiving Day social media screed, trashing America as “divided, disrupted, carved up,...

03.12.2025 5

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Nia-Malika Henderson

Private-Credit Fears Are Based on Four Myths

Private-Credit Fears Are Based on Four Myths

In Charles MacKay’s 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, he highlights how mass human behavior can lead to...

03.12.2025 1

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Marc Rowan

HSBC Chair Is One of The Toughest Jobs — Fancy It?

03.12.2025 1

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Paul J. Davies

Another Warning Sign for the GOP: This Tennessee House Race

Another Warning Sign for the GOP: This Tennessee House Race

Aftyn Behn, a Democratic state representative from Nashville, tried to flip a Tennessee congressional seat President Donald Trump won by 22...

03.12.2025 2

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Mary Ellen Klas

The Dells’ $6.3 Billion Gift Isn’t Just About the Money

03.12.2025 1

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Nir Kaissar

What TSMC — and Shakespeare — Can Teach Rapidus

What TSMC — and Shakespeare — Can Teach Rapidus

There’s no sugarcoating that what Japan’s Rapidus Corp. is trying to do requires the same kind of technical precision, and government support, as...

03.12.2025 2

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Catherine Thorbecke

Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away

Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away

We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence. When...

02.12.2025 1

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Mark Gongloff

Is AI Burnishing the Beatles Legacy or Ruining It?

Is AI Burnishing the Beatles Legacy or Ruining It?

Fans who sat down to enjoy the newly rereleased Beatles Anthology documentary this Thanksgiving noticed something was a little off. John Lennon’s...

02.12.2025 1

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Dave Lee

The Midterm Election Stars Are Aligning for Staples

The Midterm Election Stars Are Aligning for Staples

To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Is it time for consumer staples to stage a revival? The big...

02.12.2025 20

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John Authers

ChatGPT Has Won the Right to Self-Rule. That May Go Badly

02.12.2025 3

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Parmy Olson

Taxing EVs Is a Treacherous Experiment for the UK

Taxing EVs Is a Treacherous Experiment for the UK

The UK has broken a taboo: Driving electric-vehicles won’t be tax free – and rightly so. What follows is an experiment every other Western...

02.12.2025 2

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Javier Blas

Australia’s Rate-Cut Party Is Coming to an Early End

Australia’s Rate-Cut Party Is Coming to an Early End

When Reserve Bank of Australia governors come into the top job, they are given a coffee mug with the words “half full” printed across it. Nice...

02.12.2025 2

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Daniel Moss

How Foreign Carmakers Can Stay the Course in China

How Foreign Carmakers Can Stay the Course in China

The latest earnings season hasn’t been kind to Chinese carmakers. But spare a thought for their foreign rivals, whose glory days in the world’s...

02.12.2025 3

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Juliana Liu

The GOP’s Immigration Curbs Will Threaten Social Security

The GOP’s Immigration Curbs Will Threaten Social Security

President Donald Trump’s renewed crusade against legal immigration poses a direct threat to the long-term financial interests of the older White...

02.12.2025 4

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Ronald Brownstein

When the Boss Is Always Right, the AI Will Be Wrong

When the Boss Is Always Right, the AI Will Be Wrong

Elon Musk has said that Grok, xAI’s chatbot, is, “the smartest AI in the world.” And can you blame him? After all, Grok recently declared that...

02.12.2025 1

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Gautam Mukunda

Why Won’t Modi Fix Delhi’s Airpocalypse?

Why Won’t Modi Fix Delhi’s Airpocalypse?

Delhi is, once again, surrounded by a toxic, sulfurous haze, and its air quality was recorded as being just about the worst in the world last...

01.12.2025 10

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Mihir Sharma

For Europe’s Leaders, It’s Prosper or Perish

For Europe’s Leaders, It’s Prosper or Perish

If the leaders of the European Union want to overcome the global wave of populism threatening their democracies, they need to revive an economy...

01.12.2025 4

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Editorial Board

New Megacities Lie in the Path of Devastating Floods

New Megacities Lie in the Path of Devastating Floods

Humanity’s future lies in some of the most vulnerable spots on the planet. We’ve seen that in stark relief of late. A United Nations report last...

01.12.2025 3

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David Fickling