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Free Universal After-School Is an Easy Win in a World of Problems
It’s a time-honored tradition for one generation to shake its head at the next, wondering if progress and technology have caused more harm than good. So it is n...
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Florida’s GOP Governor Candidate Exposes His Party’s Emptiness
When students at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee grilled Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds last month about his record, he promised to bring...
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Robinhood’s AI Agents Won’t Help You Beat the Market
We are all investors now, or at least the majority of us are . More Americans than ever are investing in the stock market, and surveys show a large share of Gen...
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Meta’s Muse Is Ending Its Honeymoon Phase on Solid Ground
You can barely take a step on the New York subway lately without seeing the face of Meta Platforms Inc.’s furry Muse AI assistant. I’ve written already about ho...
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Just Say Yes to Permitting Reform
After decades of debate and innumerable false starts, Congress may be on the cusp of a major overhaul of America’s broken permitting system. Few reform efforts...
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Trump’s Energy Midterms Will Be Worse Than Biden’s
Four years ago, Americans were reeling from painfully high pump prices and pundits warned the incumbent government would face a protest wave in midterm election...
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Rising Bond Yields Are No Excuse for Central Bank Inertia
Are the bond and derivatives markets doing the tough work for central bankers? Swaps are pricing a globally coordinated cycle of interest rate increased over th...
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Britain’s Biggest Earners Have a New Champion
“Blessed are the rich,” is an unlikely credo for a modern British politician, but Tory leader Kemi Badenoch dared to speak up for the highly taxed, affluent pro...
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Why Putin Says Russia Could ‘Cease to Exist’ If It Loses
Ever since things in Ukraine first went sideways for Vladimir Putin back in the spring of 2022, the Russian president and his officials have said that, not only...
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It’s Time to Acknowledge English Girls Are Falling Behind
The UK, for all its political instability and sluggish growth, recently got some good news: British students ranked in the top 10 across all tested subjects in...
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Big Oil Goes Back to Iraq and Likes What It Sees
“Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of trumpets.” The ancient stock market maxim resonates in today’s Middle East. While the US and Iran fight, Big...
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Britain’s Richest People Have a New Champion
“Blessed are the rich,” is an unlikely credo for a modern British politician, but Tory leader Kemi Badenoch dared to speak up for the highly taxed, affluent pro...
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SoftBank’s Next $100 Billion Underscores Ray Dalio’s AI Warning
Skeptics of the artificial investment boom are doubling down. Billionaire Ray Dalio warned last week that the bubble was near its bursting point , while Michael...
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The Hottest Thing in Crypto Is Shaking Up Singapore
A crypto bro seeking to reinvent finance from first principles? That is nothing new. Many in the blockchain world want to loosen Wall Street’s stranglehold on w...
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The Economic Shock That’s Almost Too Hot to Handle
To say that central banks dislike making policy based on extreme weather is an understatement. But they can’t duck the economic reverberations of the powerful E...
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Trump’s Hijacking of Ukraine War Funds Sets a Dangerous Precedent
Imagine the uproar from Republicans: A future Democratic president takes a pot of money authorized to bolster Israel’s security and redirects the funds to anoth...
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Why Sweden Is So Much Better Off Than Britain
Visiting Sweden from Britain is like entering a Topsy-Turvy world. The country’s recent election unleashed anarchy in its parliament. Yet it is undaunted in add...
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ICE Is Testing Trump’s ‘Fifth Avenue’ Theory
When Donald Trump ran for president the first time, he famously declared that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t l...
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The PGA Tour Should Welcome Prodigal Son Jon Rahm Home
Three years ago, Jon Rahm was on top of the golf world. He had two major championships, a stint as the No. 1-ranked player in the world and star power. LIV, the...
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US Taxes Really Are Too Low
Political attitudes appear to be shifting toward a higher tax burden.
By John Authers | Updated on Oct 09, 2026 at 02:00 PM
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And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to … the Opposite of Trump
The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for her decade...
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How Not to Tame an Out-of-Control World
A clever interviewer recently asked me which piece of music I would choose to sum up our times. I am afraid I opted for the clichéd answer of Wagner’s Götterdäm...
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Not Even Tom Cruise Could Save ‘Digger’
Continuing a concerning trend for Warner Bros. in 2026, its latest release is buried in a financial hole no film can escape. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digge...
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If Water Is the New Gold, We’d Better Price It Right
If America sold tap water the way it sells, say, eggs or gasoline, with the price right there in your face every time you consume it, then our national argument...
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Trump's Economy Isn't Giving Men or Native-Born Americans an Edge
When Vice President JD Vance hits the road to drum up support for Republican candidates in next month’s midterm elections, his stump speeches often include the...
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Europe’s Billionaires Are Overshadowed By AI’s Gilded Age
Au revoir, Bernard Arnault. The French luxury billionaire recently fell out of Bloomberg’s ranking of the world’s top 10 richest people, the predictable consequ...
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What’s in Russian Permafrost May Be Scarier Than Plague
After the Covid pandemic, we’re all a little jumpy when it comes to new disease outbreaks. So it’s understandable that the death of a lab technician working at...
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US Bases Overseas Are Becoming Prime Targets
The Pentagon’s abrupt withdrawal of a dozen long-range B-1 bombers from a British airbase this week raises a host of troubling questions. Vice President J.D. Va...
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Is Fine Dining Dead? That’s the Wrong Question
Bruno Verjus, the restaurant-critic-turned-chef, reignited an old debate in July when he announced he was shutting down Table, his two-Michelin-starred Paris re...
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What Did the EU’s €800 Billion of Covid Borrowing Accomplish?
Six years ago, the European Union’s ambitious €800 billion post-Covid recovery program was hailed by some as the bloc’s “ Hamiltonian moment .” As the money run...
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The Next AI Race Exposes the Limits of Language
More than 50 years after her death, Helen Keller still turns up in artificial intelligence debates. The communication breakthroughs of the American writer, who...
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Europe Has Got Its Made-in-China Policy Wrong
If the definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result, what are we to make of the latest broadsides in the trade...
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The World Isn’t Ready for a Japan With Interest
Two years ago, when Japan embarked on its path toward policy normalization, I asked whether the country was ready for a “world with interest.” It was a question...
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Starbucks Should Avoid a Grande-Sized Gamble on Chipotle
Starbucks Corp. has reportedly explored a takeover of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. in what would be the biggest restaurant deal of all time. It’s unclear whether...
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Iger and Chapek’s Feud Is Embarrassing Disney — and Them
Bob Chapek and Bob Iger may no longer run Walt Disney Co., but lately the two former CEOs have been doing the company a favor.
Disney has just undergone its th...
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The AI Giants Are Facing a Severe Case of Financial Indigestion
Amid heated discussion of the astonishing (and also rather worrying ) capabilities of artificial intelligence, investors are realizing that the underlying compu...
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Kansas Deserves More of Democrats’ Midterm Money. Yes, Kansas
Yes, Democrats have a shot in Kansas.
It’s a long shot, but given that the state hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years, even having one is a notable...
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Healthcare’s Risk to the Economy Is Now Too Big to Ignore
Consumer confidence is collapsing , hiring is weak and the housing market is largely frozen. All of which serves to underscore that the US economy is only holdi...
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AI’s Risks Are No Reason for Panic
“Nobody knows anything,” the screenwriter William Goldman famously said of the movie business. Much the same can be said today for artificial intelligence, a te...
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Trump’s Trouble Is the Message and the Messenger
Complaining about subpar public relations is the last refuge of the political loser. It’s a bipartisan affliction that surfaces in every American election, incl...
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Trump’s Steel Policy Is Working. That’s the Problem
With great fanfare, President Donald Trump announced last week that “the largest steel plant ever built in the United States” would be coming to Lee County, Iow...
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British Anti-Semitism Has Made a Distressing Return
This week should have been a triumph for the UK’s Green Party. Instead, it finds itself a pariah; riven internally, isolated politically and condemned globally,...
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Drahi Gets Locked Into $22 Billion Game of Chicken
Telecom tycoon Patrick Drahi has nudged creditors at his US cable empire into a corner and they’re pushing back with a jumbo 165-page lawsuit. It’s a desperate...
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Boots’ Pessina, the Ultimate Dealmaker, Still Has the Touch
Stefano Pessina, the Italian entrepreneur behind British drugstore chain Boots, is the consummate dealmaker. He hasn’t lost his touch.
Pessina, who created All...
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China Can Give Europe a Break on EVs
With Europe and China on the brink of a trade war, Beijing has a stark choice: offer a concession to defuse tension or fan the flames . It should opt for the fo...
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AI Is Eating Software and Investors Have Noticed
The economist Robert Solow’s famous 1987 adage about the computer age — it can be seen everywhere except the productivity statistics — also applies to generativ...
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Elon Musk Won’t Break the AI-Fueled Debt Boom
Elon Musk has been a mixed blessing for Wall Street. His mega-financing deals have generated lucrative investment-banking fees while reshaping global market dyn...
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Elon Musk’s $40 Billion Cash Grab Tests the AI Debt Boom
Elon Musk has been a mixed blessing for Wall Street. His mega-financing deals have generated lucrative investment-banking fees while reshaping global market dyn...
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Deshaun Watson’s ‘Comeback’ Exposes the NFL’s Flaws
Deshaun Watson matters again. After a few years of lousy play, injuries and irrelevance on the Cleveland Browns, he’s led the team to three straight victories a...
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Boeing’s Stealth-Fighter Coup Is a Turning Point
Boeing Co.’s Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg must be pinching himself.
In the span of just a few days, the company’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft was...
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Florida’s Dengue Fever Outbreak Is a National Warning
For a state whose government officially doesn’t believe climate change is real, Florida remains our nation’s busiest climate-change laboratory.
The latest test...
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Latino Voters Are the New Swing Voters
Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: L...
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Netanyahu’s Oct. 7 Legacy Is Isolation
The Hamas terror attack on Israel, three years ago today, horrified the world. But the indiscriminate ferocity of the Israeli response under Prime Minister Benj...
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Hegseth Saw the Future of War But Can’t Lead the Way
Pete Hegseth got one big thing almost right when he addressed junior leaders of the joint force the other day. Too bad the secretary of defense keeps getting so...
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Africa Is the New Front in the Middle East’s Wars
The battle for the Strait of Hormuz commands global attention, but keep an eye on the contested waterway west of the Arabian Peninsula as well. The entire Red S...
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Britain Can't Bow to the UAE's Man City Threats
United Arab Emirates officials have warned the UK government that an independent commission’s ruling against Manchester City may dim their appetite for future m...
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Can Andy Burnham Finally Fix Britain’s Homelessness Crisis?
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has demonstrated that he doesn’t lack ambition when it comes to the most intractable problems facing modern Britain. The question...
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The Specter of Market Contagion Is Haunting Europe
A specter is haunting Europe: the threat of bond-market contagion. France’s fiscal failures are the source, and now even countries that were supposedly improvin...
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China’s Growth Target Has Become a Trap for Xi
China’s latest effort to prop up its battered housing market and spur the economy is getting a poor reception . The measures are underwhelming and unlikely to a...
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Australia’s Energy Experiment Proved the Skeptics Wrong
Just over 10 years ago, a wind storm sweeping through the state of South Australia appeared to deal a death blow for the energy transition.
With tornado winds...
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Apple’s Year Hinges on the Foldable iPhone Duo
A big question Apple Inc. analysts are asking is: How many consumers are waiting for the iPhone Duo?
The answer is hugely important to Apple’s stock this year...
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Trump’s Firing of US Attorneys Is Another Power Grab
The Trump administration’s latest effort to evade the Senate confirmation process and upset the constitutional balance of power is focused on the fifth floor of...
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The Last Word on Lionel Messi
Ten years ago, Lionel Messi was defeated, dejected, absolutely heartbroken.
“I did everything I could, and it didn’t work out for me,” the great man told repor...
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The US Shouldn’t Be So Afraid of Chinese Investment
When the leaders of China and the US met in May, they announced a “Board of Investment” aimed at widening Chinese foreign direct investment in the US . In Washi...
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Ellison’s Skydance Name Change Isn't Worth the Outrage
Paramount played a key role in the movie Sunset Boulevard , as fading screen star Norma Desmond yearned to return to that nigh-magical dream factory behind thos...
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Audi’s $89,000 Q9 Shows Chinese Competition Is Hitting the US
America’s automakers enjoy the refuge of an anti-Chinese wall. But so do foreign, non-Chinese automakers who also sell vehicles in America, especially if they m...
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What Anthropic’s ‘Existential Risks’ Tell IPO Investors
Anthropic PBC’s public listing prospectus warned investors of “ existential risks to humanity .” Why? Being long or short the artificial intelligence lab’s shar...
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Britain Has Found a Politician Who Actually Knows Finance
If Andrew Griffith wanted to write a guide on how not to run an economy, he has lots of examples from his fairly short stint in British politics. His first West...
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India’s Gen Z Faces Down the Artificial Intelligence Future
It took India 250 years to catch a break after its textile artisans lost out to new technology in the 18th century. How long will it take for the country to fin...
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Keep Medicine Out of the US-China Tech War
As Washington and Beijing tussle for dominance in frontier technologies, there’s one area in which competition shouldn’t preclude collaboration: innovative medi...
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Japan’s Massive Bond Rotation Is France’s Nightmare
A great asset migration is taking place in Japan. Yet as investors reallocate their overseas capital from bonds to stocks and unwind yen-funded carry trades, th...
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Nike’s Other Shoe Has Finally Dropped
Elliott Hill didn’t clear the decks enough when he became chief executive officer of Nike Inc. two years ago. So on Thursday, Hill, accompanied by new Chief Fin...
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A $23 Billion Franco-US AI Bet Is Seriously Aggressive
The financial mood is tense, borrowing costs are rising and dealmaking has been quieter since the summer. But Europe has a cohort of companies that are benefiti...
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FROGS Is the Name of Europe’s Latest Debt Crisis
You know it’s a European debt crisis when it has an acronym. This time it’s not a group of countries in serious trouble, the famous PIIGS of Portugal, Ireland,...
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Iowa Is a Microcosm of All the GOP’s Problems
Iowa is ground zero for everything that ails the GOP in its battle to maintain its governing majority.
The Iran conflict, now in its eighth month, has caused r...
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Musk Is Trying to Bully Delta Into Starlink. He Has a Point
Elon Musk added to his annals of antics on Thursday, warning Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian that he will lose his job for choosing Amaz...
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Don’t Let Hubris Get in the Way of Ending the Iran War
Iranian leaders arguably overplayed their hand over the summer, attacking oil tankers even after signing a memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of H...
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Will Consolidate Their Gains
Over the last several years, the Supreme Court has overturned abortion rights , ended affirmative action in higher education, given the president criminal immun...
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The Bond Market’s Balancing Act Is Perfectly Normal
Remember when near-zero interest rates squeezed retirees on fixed incomes and left pensions with huge shortfalls ? I suspect they’re happy to see US interest ra...
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Bolsonaro’s Strong Showing Leaves Brazil’s Left on the Ropes
Brazil’s election results Sunday make one thing clear: The country is turning further to the right, and not even the old lion of Latin America’s left, Luiz Inác...
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Our Oil Columnist Got an EV. A Bad Omen for Big Petroleum?
I have some news: I just bought an electric vehicle. I fueled up my old car for the last time in September — when my shiny new EV arrived last week, that was th...
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UBS Is Headed for Radical Change After Its Big Swiss Fight
It looks as if Switzerland no longer wants a national champion in global banking. Within a decade, it very likely won’t have one.
The government, chastened by...