Opinion

President Donald Trump keeps on saying he’ll protect people with pre-existing health conditions even if he succeeds in killing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — and, oddly enough, quite a few people appear to believe him. Yet he has no plan for an alternative to the ACA, and he hasn’t said how he means to keep his promise to protect ...

President Donald Trump took a tiny step back from his repeated refusals to say he’ll leave office if he loses the election. Yet he continued to portray a fair election as nearly impossible. The result is to continue to cast doubt on the election result and give himself room to challenge it if he loses the election “unfairly.” These claims ...

Another year, another conviction for yet another set of former managers of the world’s oldest bank. From afar, the Byzantine tale of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA’s repeated failings — shameful as they are — might look like the company’s problem alone. But that isn’t the case. It’s bad enough that the executives who ran Paschi for years, ...

Affluent, food-loving Singaporeans aren’t averse to spending $500 on a meal. But generally, they expect that it’ll come with a bit of ambience. Thanks to the pandemic, that has been lowered. Singapore Airlines Ltd sold out seats to eat lunch on a grounded jet at the airport. Tickets ranged from $40 for economy to $474 for a private suite. Demand ...

Like so many Brexit moments that are telegraphed as decisive, Boris Johnson’s October 15 deadline for a trade deal came and went. That the two sides are still talking points to the core fact of this negotiation: It’s in both of their interests to find agreement. That doesn’t mean a trade deal is guaranteed. As with negotiations during Theresa May’s ...

Delta Air Lines Inc may be the best positioned of the US carriers to weather the pandemic slump in air travel, given its relatively strong balance sheet and historically top-tier operating performance. But even Delta sees reason for further cutbacks. It’s yet another reminder of just how painful the near-term trajectory is for the aerospace industry. Delta reported a third-quarter ...

The world just got another reminder that vaccine development isn’t easy. Johnson & Johnson announced that it was pausing the 60,000-person trial of its Covid-19 vaccine three weeks after it started because of an unexplained illness in a participant. The news comes a month after AstraZeneca Plc announced its own pause for a similar reason. That vaccine has yet to ...

Judge Amy Barrett has had a powerful ally during her confirmation hearings: Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At Ginsburg’s own hearings in 1993, she would offer “no hints, no forecasts, no previews” about how she would vote in cases that might come before the Supreme Court. She refused to answer questions about her views on the constitutionality of school vouchers, among other ...

Against a backdrop of rising tensions with the Soviets in 1959, President John F Kennedy delivered a speech in New York that presented a new strategic approach towards African nations and US global leadership in a world defined by great-power competition. “Opening our universities and college doors to several times as many African students as now come over — this ...

What if the coronavirus pandemic delayed an election and no one cared? That’s pretty much what’s happening in New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appears to be cruising towards victory in an election this Saturday after rival politicians sought postponement from the original September 19 date. At a time when America is tearing itself apart over the crises of ...