To the Editor: Re “Save Democracy. Kill the Filibuster” (editorial, March 12): A key point in your persuasive editorial calling for the reform or elimination of the Senate filibuster bears emphasis. The filibuster exacerbates the egregiously anti-democratic nature of the Senate. When the founders’ Great Compromise created the Senate, the population disparity of the states […]

On March 23, Israel will go to the polls for its fourth national election in two years. The worst part is that this depressing Election Day may just be a prelude to yet another: Opinion polling suggests that Israel’s political blocs will struggle to elect and form a stable parliamentary majority. Our politics, it seems, […]

The Biden administration appears to have adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural and racial issues: first by inundating the electorate with a flood of cash via the $1.9 trillion Covid relief act and second by refusing to engage fractious issues in public, calculating that deprived of oxygen, their […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Chinese food group COFCO Corp has hired banks to advise on a plan to merge trading arm COFCO International with some domestic businesses before a listing of shares in the new entity, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing sources. State-owned COFCO has previously said it aims to list its international trading division, after […]

The structure of the Senate has not always favored Republicans. But in recent decades, heavily white and rural communities have moved to the political right. Because these communities dominate many small states, and because small states enjoy a lot of power in the Senate, it now has a large pro-Republican bias. So how have Democrats […]

(Reuters) – Blank-check company Greenrose Acquisition Corp said it would buy four private companies to build a cannabis cultivation, distribution and retail network across seven U.S. states, betting on the nation’s pot industry opening up soon. Dealmaking in the U.S. cannabis industry has surged in recent months on expectations that President Joe Biden’s administration will […]

Italian multinational energy company Enel headquarter is seen in Milan, Italy, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo ScalzoMILAN (Reuters) – Enel said on Monday it had launched a voluntary tender offer to buy up to 10% of shares of its Chilean-listed unit Enel Americas as part of its effort to reorganise its non-conventional renewable energy business […]

BANGKOK – Thai jungle survival instructor Pairoi Prasarnsai has been teaching for 28 years. During last year’s Cobra Gold military exercise, the Thai Marine Chief Petty Officer (First Class) once again turned showman before rapt American soldiers. “Banana tree!” he roared in Thai, before cutting it in half and wringing its stem to release moisture into […]

(Reuters) – Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Edelman Financial Engines, valuing the U.S. investment advisory services provider at $7.3 billion, including debt, the companies told Reuters on Sunday. The deal represents a 62% increase in the valuation of Edelman Financial Engines since 2018, when buyout firm Hellman […]

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 justices accused of sexual misdeeds. I’m old, which doesn’t make me tolerant of abuse of […]