Politics
Lehman Brothers C.E.O. Dick Fuld expected his top executives to get married, and stay married. For their wives, the firm was both fishbowl and shark tank, with unwritten rules about the clothes they wore, the charities they supported, and the hikes they t
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While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his
- Mar 15
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The U.S.-India trade relationship requires more attention, from both sides.
- Mar 14
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- Mar 14
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- Mar 14
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How to fix the "Mistake on The Lake" and other once-great American cities
- Mar 13
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The only hope for consensus is a bill that takes an unmistakably tough line on Wall Street, which could end up striking a political chord
- Mar 13
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Sixteen years after the Gingrich revolution, Rep. Kevin McCarthy is concocting his own multipoint plan to win over America and take back the House.
- Mar 13
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Mark Skoda, one of the organizers of the first-ever national Tea Party convention in Nashville, is no revolutionary. “I get irritated when people say, ‘Let’s take our country back.’ We have a country,” he told one interviewer at the three-day-lo
- Mar 13
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade—call it the Ponzi Era—has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast w
- Mar 12
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Liz Cheney is truly Dick's daughter, galvanizing the Republican base with her right-wing views and blistering critiques of Obama. Did somebody say 2012?
- Mar 12
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Back in his boyhood home of Indonesia, Obama will find a conservative state that has fought off radical Islam.
- Mar 12
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You have to give American politics this much: it is not boring. In recent days, a New York Democratic congressman resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct; the lawmaker denied the charges, though he did acknowledge the asexual groping of a male aide
- Mar 12
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The press finally falls out of love with Obama.
- Mar 12
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