A new president needs to make choices. Recent history suggests that an administration has only about a year to push major legislation through Congress before attention turns to the midterm elections (which rarely go well for the party in power).
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Opinion | The Years of Work Behind Washington’s Most Well-Liked Man
In 2015, I was working as an economist at the Federal Reserve. If someone told you then that in 2020 a deadly pandemic would shut down life as we knew it and that in the midst of a stop-and-go response
Opinion | Struggling With Mounting Student Debt
To the Editor: Re “Drowning in Student Loan Debt” (Op-Ed, March 19): It’s easy to sympathize with Molly Webster’s carrying tens of thousands of dollars in student debt at age 38. But she made the decisions to attend an expensive
Opinion | The Many Faces of Post-Trump Stress Disorder
It seemed like everything was calming down, until it wasn’t. By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists. They converse every week. Bret Stephens: Gail, before anything else, I know we are both as
Opinion | ‘Government Is the Solution, Not the Problem’
To the Editor: Re “Stimulus Signals Shifting Politics of Poverty Fight” (front page, March 14): In 1981, Ronald Reagan told us, “Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.” In the 1990s, Bill Clinton claimed the
Opinion | The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings
Among the first things I did upon learning about the shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area was to check in with a former massage parlor worker I met in 2019. At the time, I was reporting an
Opinion | I’ve Spent $60,000 to Pay Back Student Loans and Owe More Than Before I Began
I have a secret shame: I am 38 years old and I carry enormous federal student loan debt, 12 years after finishing grad school. The CARES Act was supposed to help me. It didn’t. The interest on my federal student
LeBron James becomes part-owner of Red Sox through FSG partnership-Boston Globe
FILE PHOTO: Mar 7, 2021; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Team LeBron forward LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers (23) is introduced before the 2021 NBA All-Star Game at State Farm Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo(Reuters) – LeBron
Australia gets a $156 billion pension merger as new laws spur consolidation
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian pension funds QSuper and Sunsuper said on Monday they would merge, forming the country’s largest single manager of retirement savings as regulatory pressure drives consolidation in the industry. The funds, which are both based in the
Opinion | Do the Claims Against Cuomo Warrant Removal?
To the Editor: Re “Democratic Lawmakers Initiate Inquiry Into Impeaching Cuomo” (front page, March 12): For four years we had a president who had paid off former mistresses and reportedly assaulted or harassed many other women. We have Supreme Court