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Would Trump act more presidential in next term?

What would a second presidential term for Donald Trump look like, anyway? Let’s suppose he wins in November, and let’s assume the election winds up a lot like 2016. This time, he’s even farther behind in the polls before Election Day, but has a well-timed surge as November 3 approaches. And while he falls well short in the popular vote, ...

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Covid is clobbering US farm workers

As many as 3 million migratory and seasonal labourers work on American farms. By one count, more than 100,000 of them have now been infected by the coronavirus. Yet the federal government has made no effort to test, trace or even document these cases. Instead, state and local officials have once again been asked to manage a pandemic that flows ...

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Ambani’s $2 chutzpah unlocks a new fortune

Mukesh Ambani has joined the league of world’s richest with the help of a simple formula: assembling admirers for $2 businesses. First he got Facebook Inc and Google to back his fledgling digital ambitions, and now he may be trying to entice Amazon.com Inc into his retail venture, already India’s largest. In four years, the Indian billionaire has amassed roughly ...

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