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When anti-LGBTQ+ activists went after Target for selling Pride merchandise, they guessed the company would cave. They were right.
Every stock market crisis triggers calls for a ban on short selling to stem declines. It never works and is a terrible idea.
The rich won’t be hurt a bit by the Biden/McCarthy debt ceiling deal. It’s the poor who will pay. That was Republicans’ priority all along.
Ron DeSantis announced his presidential candidacy via Elon Musk’s Twitter, and it went about as well as you might have expected.
Medical staffing firm Envision built a business on surprising ER patients with out-of-network doctors they couldn’t avoid. Then Congress outlawed its business model — sending it into bankruptcy.
They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they’ve never admitted their error.
A puritan crusader got Congress to pass an anti-obscenity law in 1873. Antiabortion activists have resurrected it for their own purposes.
Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president, has turbocharged his attack on LGBTQ+ people, racial minorities and gun safety. How much lower will he sink?
The debt ceiling is plainly unconstitutional and a nuclear weapon in the hands of willful children. It’s time to ignore it.
Trump blocked a study of bat viruses for political reasons. His meddling has finally been reversed, but the world lost years of potentially life-saving research.
