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The most interesting Democrat running for president may just be Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old, gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He visited Boston earlier this month, and I got to see him firsthand during a small session with reporters and an appearance before a crowd of more than 1,000
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The passengers of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed March 10 had not even been identified or buried before some commentators thought they had identified the cause: President Donald Trump's push for deregulation. "On an earnings call in April 2017, Boeing's CEO [Dennis] Muilenburg was
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The U.S. stock market is a decade into a rally that has seen broad indexes triple in value and generate $30 trillion in wealth. The unemployment rate is 3.8% nationally, and the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire are tied with even lower seasonally
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Give Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett some credit for acknowledging that he has revised his views about the perils of federal budget deficits. A careful reading of Buffett's latest annual letter to shareholders indicates that the Oracle of Omaha may be revising his public positions about taxes, too,
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President Donald Trump is this week in Vietnam for a summit meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Last year, he had a similar meeting in Singapore.
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LAWRENCE, Massachusetts — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, announcing her campaign for president here over earlier this month, used the word "rich" or a variation on it — "richer," "richest" — at least nine times in a single 45-minute stump speech. She called President Donald Trump "
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Coming soon to a Democratic Party presidential debate: the question, "Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?" A version of the query was raised earlier this month by the author Ta-Nehisi Coates. He was interviewing a new Democratic congresswoman from New York, the self-described socialist
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American politics at the moment can pretty much be explained by what you make of the record sixth Super Bowl victory by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick, and owner Robert Kraft. One view of it is to marvel at, and celebrate, the hard work, risk-taking, and