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 […]
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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 […]
A striking feature of last year’s midterm elections was the historically high turnout. Still, only 31 percent of eligible young people cast a ballot — far lower than other age groups, even though millennials are the largest demographic in the country and much of Gen Z is now voting age. Our research suggests a relatively […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is something about domestic rows that makes people freeze. Disturbance within the home, happening in a private space, is a grey area and so we pretend we didn’t hear it. For too long, intimate partner abuse has been considered a personal matter we shouldn’t get involved in. In the early hours of Friday morning, […]
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. […]