Amanda Litman makes the case for engaging with politics at the local level. Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ There’s good reason to worry about the future of democracy, and little reason to believe Democrats have a viable plan for protecting it. They built their strategy around passing a major suite of voting reforms and […]

FILE PHOTO: Representations of the Ripple, Bitcoin, Etherum and Litecoin virtual currencies are seen on a PC motherboard in this illustration picture, February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) – Blockchain company Valereum said on Friday it would buy 90% of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) to create the world’s first bourse where shares and […]

SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Biologics Co Ltd said on Friday it plans to acquire Biogen Inc’s entire stake in Samsung Bioepis worth 2.8 trillion won ($2.33 billion). Samsung said it expects the deal to be accretive to its earnings in 2022 and will fund the acquisition by issuing new shares. Biogen will receive $1 billion in […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Linda Greenhouse Ms. Greenhouse, a winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008 and was a contributing Opinion writer for 12 […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Calling Addiction a Disease Is Misleading,” by Carl Erik Fisher (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, Jan. 16): Dr. Fisher’s opinion piece about addiction was […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Let’s Not Invent a Civil War” (column, Jan. 13): I agree with Ross Douthat: Let’s not invent a civil war. But let’s not shrink […]

FILE PHOTO: Former race driver Eddie Jordan of Ireland arrives at the track ahead of the third practice session of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit in Singapore September 21, 2013. REUTERS/Tim Chong ((Reuters) – Former Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan has pulled out of a potential bid to […]

Zeynep Tufekci helps me understand the systems-wide failure on Covid — and how we can prepare for the pandemic’s next phase. Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. Most Americans believe that most politicians are corrupt. How depressing — not to mention how terrible for the health of […]

The RawlinCredit… Supported by By Vanessa Veselka Photographs by Clayton Cotterell Ms. Veselka is a writer and former union organizer. Last winter, workers at a memory care facility in western Oregon decided they were done watching the residents suffer. Conditions at the Rawlin at Riverbend, a 72-bed home in Springfield, were horrific because of critically […]