Annie Lowrey
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Susan Walsh / AP What Acosta Has Done Other Than Let Epstein Off the Hook
Trump said the secretary of labor is doing a “fantastic job.” Is that right?
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Democrats Don’t Want to Talk About the Economy
At the debates, the candidates didn’t tussle over unemployment.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters What Facebucks Can Do for the Global Poor
Facebook’s Libra would be free to use and free to roam, changing hands and crossing borders costlessly or nearly costlessly.
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Image Source via Getty Give Us Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A new book proposes we let robots do all the work.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Too Many People Want to Travel
Massive crowds are causing environmental degradation, dangerous conditions, and the immiseration and pricing-out of locals.
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Ramon Espinosa/ AP You Get a Tariff! You Get a Tariff! Everybody Gets a Tariff!
Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico. That would put the entire global economy at risk.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters The City That’s Giving People Money
Randomly selected Stockton residents are receiving $500 a month. The experiment might prove that guaranteed income works.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Trump Thinks Tariffs Work (And How They Actually Work)
To make the case for his trade war with China, the president is relying on blatant falsehoods and misconceptions.
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Jim Young / Reuters The U.S. Doesn’t Deserve the World Bank Presidency
Limiting the talent pool to Americans is unjustifiable—and Trump’s nomination of David Malpass only makes this clearer.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How to Soak the Rich
Democratic 2020 candidates are already discussing how to make a more progressive tax code. What’s the best way?
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Alexander Drago / Reuters The Shutdown Is Over, Long Live the Shutdown
Worry and uncertainty remain, even with the federal government back up and running.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Let Them Eat Low-Interest Loans
The Trump administration is proving blind to the pain many workers are experiencing, and cavalier about the dangers that an extended shutdown poses.
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The Pitfalls of Weed Legalization
Does marijuana pose significant public-health risks?
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Terray Sylvester / Reuters What the Camp Fire Revealed
Two months after disaster struck, the recovery in Paradise, California, is harder for some than for others.
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Simon Dawson / Reuters The Truth About the Gig Economy
Uber and similar companies aren’t driving huge changes in the way that Americans make a living.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters It’s Been Two Years. The President Still Hasn’t Released His Tax Returns
He also seems to be making a lot of money outside the presidency.
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Jim Young / Reuters How to End Government Shutdowns, Forever
Congress should stop relying on one-off funding extensions to keep the government running.
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Leah Millis / Reuters What Was Steve Mnuchin Thinking? Three Possibilities
The Treasury secretary put out an alarming—and confusing—press release on Sunday evening.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump's Food-Stamp Policy Will Only Make Poverty Worse
The president wants to make it harder for jobless people to obtain food stamps.
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William West / AFP / Getty Why Hasn’t Australia Had a Recession in Almost 30 Years?
The U.S. should take a page from the island nation.
