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In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American...
The president is challenging the constitutional order.
Trump’s attacks on trans people are on the wrong side of history and humanity.
Trump’s presidency demands your attention.
Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.
The fate of the Israel-Hamas agreement will require huge effort.
If it wasn’t already clear — after nearly 250 years — that the pardon power is a standing invitation to abuse and corruption, two presidents...
To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.
Since the start of the new year, the bond market has been urging Congress to come to terms with America’s spiraling budget problems. Soon it might...
There is a real risk that the nation’s institutions will succumb to Trump’s campaign of intimidation and not do their jobs.
The Federal Reserve faces a reckoning: Sometime soon, it’ll probably have to subject its stress tests to public scrutiny, highlighting serious flaws...
Democrats finally seem to be converging on a more serious approach to immigration enforcement. It shouldn’t have taken a drubbing at the polls last...
Just how far President-elect Donald Trump will press his promises on trade and economic policy once he takes office is hard to say. One thing is...
On Friday, the Supreme Court signaled it would likely not be TikTok’s savior. If President-elect Donald Trump wants to play the role, he should do...
Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.
The scale of Britain’s child-exploitation scandal almost defies belief. Between the late 1980s and the early 2010s, thousands of young girls, mainly...
Javier Milei’s first year as president of Argentina has confounded his critics. Most viewed his promises of radical reform as crazy or unworkable....
The middlemen that comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health-care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the...
Investors seem both reassured and intrigued by the prospect of Scott Bessent as the next Treasury secretary. Reassured, because Bessent is...
As Bloomberg News has reported, President Joe Biden is considering ramping up sanctions on Russia before he leaves office, hoping to pressure...
Even before taking office, the Republican Party’s new majority has become deeply split over the legislative path ahead. Some lawmakers want to...
Perhaps nothing encapsulates the perils of crypto better than Tether Holdings Ltd. Tether is a so-called stablecoin. It addresses one of...
Judging from the reaction, you might think that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer had just lost a war. One former cabinet minister labeled Starmer’s...
As he assembles his team for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump is entitled to some latitude, even for his more unconventional picks. Yet...
A rude surprise could be in store for the millions of Americans who get health coverage through the Affordable Care Act. If Congress doesn’t act...
News that President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to hack away at the forbidding tangle of US bank regulation is welcome in the abstract. In...
Take it from Niels Bohr: “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” Much the same...
This is an intercontinental ballisticmissile the U.S. Air Force is launchingoff the shores of California. This is an intercontinentalballistic...
Investors see recent inflation data as a green light for the Federal Reserve to trim another quarter point from the short-term interest rate. When...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to project an image of economic strength while prosecuting the war in Ukraine, as if he could easily...
For a city known for its dynamism, New York is burdened with some exceptionally stifling housing regulations. So news that the city council has...
The politics surrounding Nippon Steel Corp.’s controversial bid for United States Steel Corp. evidently haven’t improved since November’s election....
Growth in the euro area has been lagging the US for decades now, with GDP per capita across most of the bloc comparable to the poorest US states....
The blindingly fast assault that toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad over the weekend may not have been, as President-elect Donald Trump rushed...
Does the US government need a strategic reserve dedicated to Bitcoin, as President-elect Donald Trump seems to be contemplating? At risk of...
Since its enactment in 2022, the Chips and Science Act — a $280 billion splurge intended to revive US semiconductor manufacturing — has been at...
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President Joe Biden wants Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight-loss drugs, a proposal that would expand access to the costly but life-changing...
One of the most important issues for Congress next year is tax reform. The main changes in Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act were...
’Tis the season for a surge in financial frauds and scams, a huge and growing problem that caused nearly $500 billion in losses globally last year,...
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to finish reshaping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — a hallmark pledge of his first term. He...
As America’s unaccountably slow vote-tallying process enters its third week, one thing should now be clear: This should be the last election where...
To the stalwart seniors reviewing their Medicare coverage this fall: Godspeed. The open-enrollment process has become so convoluted that almost 70%...
Months of combat in the Middle East have proved how central the US Navy’s missile defenses are to protecting assets and allies. The fighting has...
The crypto party seems to be getting restarted. Bitcoin is surging and big players are celebrating amid expectations that President-elect Donald...
In choosing South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their party’s...
If personnel is policy, as the Reagan-era slogan had it, Donald Trump’s second administration is likely to be as idiosyncratic — not to say...
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