Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia. In The Battle At Lake Changjin, the latest nationalistic blockbuster to hit movie screens in China, there is a scene where a company of Chinese soldiers eat frozen potatoes while huddled in a snow-covered valley. Please […]

By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists. They converse every week. Gail Collins: Hey, Bret, the holiday season is almost upon us — if you presume we start off with Halloween, which is one of my favorites. Are you going to be dressing up as any famous person […]

By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. The squabbling over the Build Back Better plan, the ambitious climate change and social spending package that the Democrats need to pass on a party-line vote, has been running hot, with progressives and moderates squaring off, especially in the Senate. On Wednesday, there […]

(Reuters) -DraftKings has another month to decide on a formal offer for Entain as the betting firms continue talks on the details of a possible deal, including the U.S. company’s plans for Entain’s BetMGM venture with MGM.FILE PHOTO: General view inside a Ladbrokes shop in Harpenden, Britain, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File PhotoEntain said on […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “On Masks and Covid, I Found Common Sense in Germany,” by Alec MacGillis (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 13): Mr. MacGillis’s experience of mask wearing in Germany largely corresponds with mine in Australia, a country headed by a center-right prime minister. Here the left and the right have […]

By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. Despite her flamboyant persona — the Crayola-colored wigs, the edgy outfits, the in-your-face bling — Senator Kyrsten Sinema rarely talks smack about other lawmakers. But when Democratic leaders delayed a promised House vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that the Arizona Democrat had […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Banca Carige has hired Boston Consulting Group to help it study ways to develop its business, including through a merger which remains the troubled lender’s main goal. Genoa-based Carige said in a statement on Wednesday it would continue to pursue a tie-up even after tax incentives for bank mergers expire at […]

LONDON (Reuters) – UK insurance firm Howden Group has bought UK insurance broker Aston Lark from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Bowmark Capital, the firms said on Wednesday. Howden paid 1.1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) for the acquisition, according to a source familiar with the matter, its largest acquisition to date. The deal will create […]

By James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee Professors Curry and Lee are the authors of “The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era.” Despite party control of Congress and the presidency, Democrats are still struggling to enact their agenda. The ballyhooed bipartisan infrastructure deal is stuck in the House, and the […]

By Thomas B. Edsall Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. Over the 20-year period from 1970 to 1990, whites, especially those without college degrees, defected en masse from the Democratic Party. In those years, the percentage of white working class voters who identified with the Democratic Party […]