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White House readies order to fine banks for dropping clients over politics: WSJ
The order authorises monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures against violators The White House is drafting an…
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A Campaign Memoir by Kamala Harris Is Officially Headed Our Way
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is hardly resting on her laurels after her historic presidential run last year: On Thursday, Simon &…
Beauty
Is the Trump Administration Actually Destroying Almost $10 Million Worth of Birth Control?
There are a few indelible images that have already emerged from the second Trump administration: thousands taking to the streets during…
News
The Ugly Politics of Jackson, Mississippi’s Ongoing Water Crisis
According to Floyd, the situation has improved in recent years, but by no means are the water issues gone. Some neighborhoods, which have…
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The Deadly Floods Revealed Texans’ Heroism—and Their Failed Politics
Texas novelist Billy Lee Brammer once described the rivers and creeks of the Hill Country around Austin as “running deep like old wounds,…
Business
Big shake-up in Nigerian politics as heavyweights join forces
Nigeria's two main opposition leaders have joined a new political party to challenge President BolaTinubu and his ruling party in the next…
Style
Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Posting as Politics
On June 24, at 6:50 A.M., Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that might otherwise have been reserved for a diplomatic cable or…
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I Want What They Have, Friendship Edition: Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this new column, we’ll be examining the…
Style
Ben Shahn, the Lefty Artist Who Was Left Behind
From the late nineteen-forties through the mid-fifties, Ben Shahn was one of the most in-demand artists in America. Whether you were…
Beauty
On the Ground at New York’s No Kings Day March
Even the weather was riled up during Saturday’s “No Kings” march in Manhattan. Yet the steady drizzle couldn’t stop tens of thousands of…
News
American Politics Only Pretends to Work
But here’s the rub: The bill that Moore spiked was never actually about discovering new facts to lay alongside the vast mountain of…
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How Jacinda Ardern Changed the Look of Leadership
Ardern says she made a deliberate decision not to harden or reshape her persona when she entered Parliament at the age of 28. But she also…
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Who Is Most Affected by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill?
Last week, House Republicans passed H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in a 215 to 214 vote that all but two GOP…
World
What Casey Means and MAHA Want You to Fear
If you close your eyes and imagine an up-from-the-bootstraps embodiment of boomer triumphalism—the ambitious young technocrat of a systems…
Style
How “Andor” Injects Contemporary Politics Into “Star Wars” I.P.
It’s rare to hear the word “genocide” uttered unequivocally on television, let alone on the streaming service Disney+. So it was a bit of…
Business
Is Ivory Coast's red card politics an own goal for democracy?
Even a stellar international business career cannot prepare you for the hard realities of politics in Ivory Coast, where some are…
Beauty
In Cobble Hill, New Yorkers Show Up for the “Cool” Mayoral Candidate
Born in Kampala and raised for a time in Cape Town, Mamdani later settled with Nair and his father, academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani,…
World
Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My responsibility is to make…
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Canada’s Recent Election Was a Repudiation of Trumpism. Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Winner, Mark Carney
It seems that President Donald Trump’s boorish panache has its limits across our northern border; on Monday night Liberal Party candidate…
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Tesla’s European Sales Drop in January After Elon Musk Disrupts Politics
Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January, the month when Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to…
Lifestyle
Would Canada be a Republican U.S. state?
President-elect Donald Trump has on more than one occasion expressed a desire to make Canada the 51st state of America, citing its heavy…
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The Real Reason Elon Musk is Getting Involved in European Politics
Trump also claimed that New York’s legal system was fundamentally corrupt and was contributing to the fleeing of businesses from the…
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Golden Globes Stars Avoided Politics
Hollywood hoisted a white flag in the culture war on Sunday. That summation of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards will undoubtedly aggravate…
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The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics
Broadly speaking, those goals include more government power and greater law enforcement; this network and its sponsors often support…