To the Editor: I hope that if there is any controversy about counting the votes after Nov. 3, all the Supreme Court justices remember that it took months to decide on who would be the president of the United States in its early years. And nobody complained! In fact, throughout much of our history, votes […]

(Reuters) – Canadian bicycle maker Dorel Industries Inc DIIb.TO said on Monday it has agreed to be taken private by a group led by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in a deal valued at about C$470 million ($354.3 million). Shares of Dorel were up 3.5% at C$14.90 in afternoon trade. Under the terms of […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS | How To As the most powerful man in the country peddled hydroxychloroquine and disinfectant snake oil as cures for the coronavirus, the comedian Sarah Cooper scoured her kitchen cabinet for props, scouted her lockdown apartment for locations and angled her iPhone. The result: a […]

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. We’ve covered so much ground over all these years of discussing the Trump presidency. Do you think the damage Donald Trump has done to the country is irreparable? Or can we find our way back to something approaching normality? Gail Collins: Bret! We’re just on the edge of getting rid of […]

Americans have heard a lot about threats to the 2020 election. But one of the greatest threats may be a loss of faith in our electoral system itself. The director of the F.B.I., Christopher Wray, told Congress in September that his greatest concern about the election was the erosion of voter confidence — and “a […]

Why is the reported number of COVID-19 cases rising across Europe now? Many countries ended their full lockdowns at the start of the summer, but it wasn’t until the autumn that most places began to see a significant increase in the spread of the virus again. The re-opening of schools and universities led to greater […]

Two new books on the excesses of meritocracy have lessons relevant for Singapore. One is Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel’s latest book, The Tyranny Of Merit: What’s Become Of The Common Good? (More on this book later). Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at […]

The Trump administration has a dirty little secret: It’s not just planning to increase taxes on most Americans. The increase has already been signed, sealed and delivered, buried in the pages of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. President Trump and his congressional allies hoodwinked us. The law they passed initially lowered taxes for […]

It’s happening again — the belief that this is the year Texas will turn blue. Remember when people believed that Beto O’Rourke might take it from Ted Cruz in 2018? Or that somehow, miracle of miracles, the liberal Wendy Davis could wrest the governorship from smug Greg Abbott in 2014? The political sages of both parties […]

(Reuters) – AMP Ltd AMP.AX said on Friday U.S.-based Ares Management Corp ARES.N had made a non-binding offer to buy the troubled Australian wealth manager, sending its shares soaring the most in over 17 years.FILE PHOTO: The logo of AMP Ltd, Australia’s biggest retail wealth manager, adorns their head office located in central Sydney, Australia, […]