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2020 Debate, Robert Mueller, Pride: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. And we’re off to the races. The first Democratic debates of the 2020 presidential race have arrived, taking place tonight and tomorrow night from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern. Ten candidates from the sprawling field will debate each night. […]

Opinion | Thinking About Decisions

To the Editor: Re “Making a Decision Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard” (Smarter Living, June 17): It may be useful to look at ways to decide that are outside our self-driven culture. If you’re chiefly trying to decide based on how you feel, you may not recognize that most decisions are contextual: It’s the […]

Opinion | Who Is the Republican Heir to Trump?

For the kickoff of his 2020 re-election campaign in Florida last week, President Trump was surrounded by thousands of devoted supporters in KAG (Keep America Great) hats. More notably, though, he was also joined by a man who once called Mr. Trump “a con artist” and said he would “never get control of” the Republican […]

TDR Capital makes $2.4 billion offer for car auctioneer BCA Marketplace

LONDON (Reuters) – British private equity firm TDR Capital has offered to buy car auctioneer BCA Marketplace for about 1.91 billion pounds ($2.42 billion). The recommended offer of 243 pence per share is a premium of about 25% to BCA’s closing price on June 19. The two companies announced they were in advanced talks over […]

Historic church west of Calgary gets government approval to restore and rebuild

For over two years its future was unknown, but now a team in charge of the iconic McDougall Memorial United Church, located west of Calgary, has some definitive plans. In May of 2017, the “little white church” as it was commonly known was destroyed by fire. In the months that followed, the McDougall Stoney Mission […]

Opinion | Why America Needs a Thoughtful Federal Privacy Law

This is the year of privacy, a unique opportunity to protect Americans’ privacy rights while protecting technological innovation and civil discourse. If this sounds lofty for a technology issue, consider: The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed significant threats to consumers and to democracy posed by the misuse of consumer personal information; the General Data Protection Regulation, […]

Opinion | Marta Harnecker and the Death of the Latin American Hard Left

MEXICO CITY — The Chilean sociologist, political scientist and activist Marta Harnecker, one of the most influential Marxist theorists in the Latin American left, died on June 15 at the age of 82. One of her many books, “The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism,” published in 1969, had far-reaching impact. The condensed, synthetic and accessible […]

Opinion | Please, Please Raise My Taxes

There’s a story we like to tell about American capitalism. Ours is a country that prizes merit, rewards risk and stands apart in its commitment to the collective success of open markets and the free flow of capital. We are a nation of strivers who can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps with the right […]