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The best antidote for a bad election is a better election

If Donald Trump were to tweet that 9 is a prime number, that Minneapolis is in Idaho, and that the sun revolves around the Earth — “Make Earth Great Again!” — would even five Republican senators publicly disagree with even one of the tweets? This matters in assessing the wisdom of beginning an impeachment process against the president. If every ...

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ECB moves closer to all-out war

It’s all kicking off at the European Central Bank (ECB). Sabine Lautenschlaeger, the executive board member from Germany, is to resign at the end of October, slightly more than two years before the end of her mandate. Her exact motives are unknown, but they add to a sense of chaos at the central bank barely a month before a crucial ...

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A promotion for one of Trump’s punching bags?

Jeff Zucker, the president of cable-news network CNN, is reportedly considered AT&T Inc.’s top internal candidate to become CEO of the entire WarnerMedia division. I can imagine what Donald Trump would make of this news. How should investors take it? WarnerMedia houses CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and other media properties that made up the former Time Warner Inc., which AT&T ...

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