Opinion | When Bosses Shared Their Profits – The New York Times: The richest 1 percent now own half the value of all shares of stock; the richest 10 percent, 92 percent. Those higher share prices have come out of the pockets of workers. Daniel Greenwald at M.I.T.’s Sloan School …
Opinion | A Plague of Willful Ignorance – The New York Times: And the next Trump rally, on Tuesday, will take place in Arizona, where Covid-19 is exploding, but where the Republican governor not only refuses to require mask-wearing but refused until a few days ago to allow local governments …
Opinion | Don’t Buy John Bolton’s Book. But Don’t Ignore Its Revelations. – The New York Times: That Bolton did not testify to this earlier is to his immense disgrace. But it is a national disgrace that his confirmation of the Democrats’ impeachment case probably won’t matter, so inured are …
Opinion | Market Madness in the Pandemic – The New York Times: But the Trump team sees stock prices as the ultimate measure of policy success. Back in 2007 — on the eve of the Great Recession — Larry Kudlow, who is now Trump’s top economist, declared that things were …
Opinion | Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon – The New York Times: The modern G.O.P., however, is nothing like that. Many of its leading figures — people like Senator Tom Cotton — are every bit as authoritarian and anti-democratic as Trump himself. The rest, with hardly any exceptions, are …
