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Merck CEO shows power of corporate conscience

American voters are obligated to pass judgment on President Donald Trump. Increasingly, American corporations may find that they, too, have little choice. After Trump failed to call out the racists responsible for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, Merck & Co. chief executive officer Kenneth Frazier made an announcement: He was resigning, he said via Twitter, from Trump’s ...

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Bannon’s chaos had no place at White House

The most important thing to know about Steve Bannon, the departing White House “chief strategist,” is that he was an amateur. And just as Richard Neustadt tells us that the presidency is no place for amateurs, the same is true for White House senior staffers. The most important thing to know about Donald Trump’s first staff is that the actor ...

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Why Americans still have to fight for the streets

“Whose streets? Our streets!” If you found it disturbing to hear white supremacists chanting these words as they marched last weekend through Charlottesville, Virginia, I’m about to make you feel worse. This blueprint for political rise comes directly from Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” where the would-be dictator advised his followers that “the road can be cleared for the movement … ...

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