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Senate Republicans Stall Crucial Vote on Fed Nominees

President Biden’s plans to reshape the Federal Reserve suffered a setback on Tuesday as Republicans delayed a key vote on his five nominees for its Board of Governors.Republicans did not […]




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Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar

My colleague, the columnist John McWhorter, a trained linguist, noted in a recent essay that the catchphrase was an American instance of a euphemistic language practice known in South Africa […]




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Republicans Who Assailed Biden’s Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money

“It’s like the python that ate the rat,” Brad Whitehead, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, said of the struggle to shepherd so much federal money […]




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Now in Your Inbox: Political Misinformation

A few weeks ago, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, falsely claimed that the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, a $1.75 trillion bill to battle climate change and extend […]




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How Bank Regulators Are Trying to Oust a Trump Holdover

Then came the fireworks. The FDIC’s public affairs office, which Ms. McWilliams controls, released a statement:“Earlier today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) posted on its website a document, purportedly […]




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Lawmakers See Path to Rein In Tech, but It Isn’t Smooth

WASHINGTON — “Facebook and Big Tech are facing a Big Tobacco moment,” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said this week when a whistle-blower testified about how the social media […]