Opinion | Can This Get Any More Pathetic?
Gail Collins: Bret, we’re living through a time of extreme crisis: a sitting president refusing to acknowledge his re-election defeat. But when we look back I have a feeling our … Read More
Category: Analysis & Comment
EU delays decision on LSE/Refinitiv deal by four days
FILE PHOTO: The Refinitiv logo is seen on a screen in offices in Canary Wharf in London, Britain August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleLONDON (Reuters) – The European Commission said it … Read More
Opinion | When Will We Throw Our Masks Away? I Asked Dr. Fauci
As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know … Read More
Opinion | You Don’t Have to Fake It Through Thanksgiving
A mental health professional might describe the period immediately after the death of my husband as shock. Anyone else would have described it as The Holidays. Three days after my … Read More
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump’s refusal to concede echoes his most famous lie
Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election is probably the least surprising news of 2020. After all, he began sowing the seeds of doubt about the result long before the … Read More
Opinion | Vaccines Offer Hope as Covid Cases Soar
To the Editor: Re “Another Vaccine Appears to Work Against the Virus” (front page, Nov. 17): Dear Senators: You have witnessed our country going through a pandemic, claiming the lives … Read More
Deutsche Boerse to buy 80% of ISS for $1.8 billion
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse DB1Gn.DE said on Tuesday it would acquire an 80% stake in Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) for about $1.8 billion, the … Read More
Opinion | Goodbye, Golden Goose
WASHINGTON — Many see a wannabe despot barricaded in the bunker, stubby fingers clinging to the levers of power as words that mean nothing to him — democracy, electoral integrity, … Read More
When China's fintech 'mistress' was brought to heel
When China’s richest man Jack Ma took on the country’s financial watchdogs late last month, he knew it was risky and that there could be repercussions. It was a bold … Read More
Opinion | This Coronavirus Surge Does Not Have to Be So Horrific
In the spring, when the coronavirus was spreading across the planet, Americans took steps — slow and uneven as they might have been — to bring the first U.S. outbreaks under … Read More
Opinion | The Long Shadow of the Reagan Years
I came down the stairs, hungover and shattered. I sang a song by The Doors. “This is the end, beautiful friend, the end.” My mother, standing in the kitchen, threw … Read More
Opinion | The Mixed Messages in the Election
To the Editor: In “What Voters Are Trying to Tell Us” (column, Nov. 6), David Brooks argues, “Election after election, the emerging Democratic majority fails to emerge,” because of a … Read More