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‘Sovereign Immunity’ Is Shield of Cyberattackers
Can an American citizen or business whose emails were hacked by a foreign government successfully sue the foreign government for damages? All of a sudden, it's a bipartisan issue.
Ira Stoll
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Declaration Issues Bedevil Trump As They Did George III
If you take a moment to re-read the Declaration of Independence, it may help you make better sense of recent headlines. The founders of the United States of America didn't just declare independence from Great Britain. They wrote a statement explaining their reasoning. Two-hundred-and-forty-two years later, we'
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NYT Stock Outperforms Amazon, Facebook, Apple Amid ‘Trump Bump’
The Trump era sure has been good for shareholders in what the president likes to call the "failing New York Times." New York Times Company stock soared 141% between Election Day 2016 and late June 2018. You'd have made more money if you'd bought
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Echoes Of Reagan In Trump’s Clashes With Allies
The French foreign minister accuses the American president of furthering a "divorce" between the United States and its European allies. "Deep Trade Rift With Allies Seen" is a New York Times headline. "The Roots of Western Disunity" is the headline over another New York
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Elizabeth Warren Discovers She Agrees With Clarence Thomas
Elizabeth Warren, meet Clarence Thomas. Senator Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, was in the headlines recently for joining with Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican who represents Colorado, to introduce the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act. That legislation would, as Warren put it in a tweet, "let
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Schumer Complaints on Gas Prices Expose Democrats’ Flaws
Displays of political hypocrisy go just don't get any more brazen than the press conference by four Senate Democrats criticizing President Donald Trump for soaring gasoline prices. The Democratic Senate leader, Charles Schumer, claimed that the price increases were "directly" related to "President Trump'
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Pipes, Lewis Are Reminders That Academia Matters
The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities. Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence
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Gaza-Jerusalem Juxtaposition Tells a Story About Limits
The stark juxtaposition of the celebratory opening of America's new embassy to Israel in Jerusalem and deadly Palestinian riots in Gaza has led some to conclude that one has something to do with the other. As New York Times columnist Max Fisher put it in a tweet, "