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‘Whichever Is Cheaper’: Inside China’s New Thrift Economy
Beijing hopes spending can spur growth, which has been dragged down by slowing real estate sales and exports. But shoppers are gravitating to discounts.
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News
Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work.
Three years into a mass workplace experiment, we are beginning to understand more about how work from home is reshaping workers’ lives and the economy.
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News
U.S. Scales Back Hopes for Ambitious Climate Trade Deal With Europe
A negotiating deadline is quickly approaching, and the United States has lowered its expectations for a groundbreaking trade deal.
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US
Nikki Haley Raises $11 Million, Battling With DeSantis to Take On Trump
The former South Carolina governor has made gains in recent months — in fund-raising and polling — that have helped her compete for the No. 2 spot in the primary field.
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News
U.S. Dysfunction Clouds Economic Diplomacy Efforts
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls on Congress to authorize more economic support for Ukraine.
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US
Heat, High Water, Hurricanes: Schools Are Not Ready for Climate Change
A storm can last a day. But the disruption to learning can last years. As natural disasters become more common, school districts are grappling with how to adapt.
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Newyork
What We Can Do to Make American Politics Less Dysfunctional
The disarray engulfing the House of Representatives has been unprecedented, yet somehow it has also felt inevitable. No sitting speaker has ever been removed before, but the process that brought about Representative Kevin McCarthy’s overthrow was the ...
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Newyork
Congressional Term Limits Might Break Congress
The recent death of the long-serving California senator Dianne Feinstein at age 90 has raised, once again, the issue of congressional term limits. It’s understandable. The median age in the United States Senate is 65, and the median age in the House ...
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Newyork
New York’s Right to Shelter Is Under Attack. Again.
The mayor is going to court over the city’s unique decree guaranteeing a room to all New Yorkers. It is not the city’s first time, with dozens of similar challenges over the past decades.
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Newyork
The Question of Joe Biden
Nearly two decades ago, I tried to write a group biography about the senators whose offices happened to be on the second floor of the Russell Office Building on Capitol Hill. The group included John McCain, Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Hagel ...