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What should Preet Bharara do next? Life, especially public life, is full of second acts. A previous U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who was unpopular in certain circles for overreaching in white-collar criminal cases against Wall Street, Rudolph Giuliani, turned out to be a pretty
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The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, is a tax-and-spend bleeding-heart liberal who ordinarily would be way, way down on the list of people that this center-right columnist would want to spend any time or energy defending. So give the Obama-Trump-Schumer U.S. attorney for the Southern District of
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President Donald Trump's Twitter complaints about "illegal leaks" are easy to dismiss as the latest sign of his authoritarian streak. Plenty of people already perceive Mr. Trump as a thin-skinned would-be-dictator on a power trip. A crackdown — even a purely rhetorical one — on the press and
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When the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Robert Capers, unsealed an indictment late last year against operators of a hedge fund that managed more than $1 billion dollars, he portrayed it as a straightforward fraud. "Like a Ponzi scheme," were the words Mr.
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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in Washington this week to meet with President Donald Trump and the press full of headlines about turmoil at the National Security Council, the president faces some big decisions. Among them:
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A New York-based FBI agent who played a leading role in a string of recent insider trading prosecutions is under criminal investigation for what federal prosecutors, in a recent court filing, call "unquestionable misconduct by an agent of the Government … improper and inexcusable." It's the sort
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President Donald Trump is being widely (even by Dick Cheney) and at least in part justifiably criticized and condemned for his crackdown on the admission to America of refugees from certain foreign countries. If the goal is to make Americans safe from radical Islamic terrorism, the ban, it is argued
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Obscured amid the controversy over crowd size and the women's march that followed was the substantive policy at the heart of President Donald Trump's inaugural address. That came in the language about "we are transferring power from Washington D.C., and giving it back to