The Republican is right that Democrats have to raise the borrowing limit — and they should raise it so high that it ceases to be a political issue.
Politics & Policy
Pouring money into the same old defective social programs won’t make Americans more prosperous, more secure or less unequal.
The U.S. withholds a tenth of military aid to the country. But its autocratic ruler General Sisi gets a lot more help from other powers.
The prime minister’s reshuffle brings a lot of familiar faces to the fore but doesn’t really offer a new game plan.
Lebanon depends on its financial industry. Now the new government has to figure out how to recapitalize its institutions or the country may cease to exist.
Whether or not the Joint Chiefs chairman “pulled a Schlesinger,” it’s clear that Americans are placing far too much responsibility on the military to defend the constitutional order.
Stolen-election fantasies are likely to demoralize GOP voters, and the party’s embrace of candidates as radical as Newsom’s main challenger just narrows its base.
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Timothy L. O'Brien
No, General Milley, President Trump Wasn’t Losing It
The former commander in chief has been his own authentic self consistently all his life.
Allison Schrager
‘Lie Flat’ If You Want, But Be Ready to Pay the Price
Upper-middle-class, well-educated young Americans are getting in on the protest movement started in China. But they may not understand what it will cost them.
Jonathan Bernstein
California Recall Flashes Danger Signs at Republicans
Stolen-election fantasies are likely to demoralize GOP voters, and the party’s embrace of candidates as radical as Newsom’s main challenger just narrows its base.
Even George W. Bush pulls punches when he takes his GOP successor to task. It’s a losing strategy against a slugger who revels in “telling it like it is.”
The escape has left questions about the country’s maximum security prison, but helped quell fears of an Israeli Arab uprising.
As the list of candidates for France’s presidency grows longer, the case for keeping Macron, an unloved incumbent, in power gets stronger.
Spending less than a day in Europe’s autocratic rogue state, Pope Francis tactfully made the case for openness and tolerance.
The former commander in chief has been his own authentic self consistently all his life.
When people say they are motivated by conscience, even implausibly, employers and government have no morally defensible choice but to take their word for it.
One simple concept from economics can help you understand people’s decisions about vaccinations or mask-wearing.
Recent ups and downs in Biden’s popularity suggest that voters still respond to events, giving politicians a healthy incentive to deliver positive results for the nation.
Raising the rate on capital gains without eliminating a key loophole used by the wealthy to shelter those gains won’t work. Nor will a toothless provision aimed at fund managers.
The nation has the financial wherewithal to help correct the inequality that corporate America has failed to address.
France accommodated military juntas elsewhere in Africa but is now embarrassed by the coup in Guinea.
Why has Boris Johnson’s vaccine strategy gone from “whatever it takes” to “we’re alright, thanks”?
Pelosi Democrats are focused on helping low-income Americans. Sanders Democrats would hand out money to people who need it least, to expand Medicare and government.
More lenient policies don’t appear to be contributing to a crime wave in urban areas across the U.S.
The more GOP leaders pretend that voting results are rigged frauds, the more everyone in the party will believe it and the more U.S. democracy will suffer.
Regulation is important for protecting consumers. But wholesale price volatility and a changing energy landscape make today’s rules look dated.
Sending a massive “expeditionary sea base” to an exercise in the Gulf of Guinea makes a statement of U.S. commitment in the continent.
It looks like Olaf Scholz will have two options to form the next German government. One would be a disaster; the other might be fine.
Operations Fox Hunt and Skynet target Beijing’s critics wherever they may go.
The expiration of extra unemployment assistance provided during the pandemic is not the calamity that many progressives say it is.
Democrats wanted another New Deal. They neglected the most important part.
Faced with mandates amid a Covid-19 resurgence, some Americans are making far too much of a simple choice.
Having thrown away their reputation for tax-cutting, how will the Tories position themselves next?
Twenty years after the horrific attacks on New York and Washington, it’s clear that the biggest changes of our time were not ideological or geopolitical, but technological. They were also the hardest to foresee.
What was lost in the attacks 20 years ago, and what came to be as two decades of war followed.
