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Last week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to create what the White House described as a “whole-of-government” strategy to bolster economic competitiveness and reverse a decades-long trend of consolidating corporate power. “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” he declared at the signing ceremony. “It’s exploitation.” Biden’s order, among many other things, “calls on the leading antitrust agencies, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to... Читать дальше...

“I find the fixation on 1970s inflation puzzling,” the New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum wrote this past May on Twitter. “I mean really,” he continued, “of all the things that were terrible about the 1970s how is [it] that inflation is the one thing the Boomers have really devoted their lifetimes to preventing?”

The European Union Wednesday unveiled a suite of climate policies intended to cut emissions by 55 percent of 1990 levels by 2030. The plans include higher carbon prices, a bloc-wide coal phaseout and stopping the sale of fossil-fueled internal combustion engine cars by 2035. Also among its proposals—which member nations will debate in the coming weeks—is a “carbon border adjustment mechanism” that would impose fees on goods imported from non-EU countries with weaker climate laws. That could include the United States. Читать дальше...

Virginia’s Republican Party is a mess. The once reliably reddish commonwealth has grown steadily bluer in recent years, thanks in no small part to the growth that the Washington, D.C., suburbs have experienced over the last decade. Democrats control the state legislature for the first time in a generation and have won the last two gubernatorial elections. Joe Biden won the state by nearly 10 points, doubling Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory in 2016.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is aptly subtitled: This is not a documentary about food, or about traveling the world, although food and travel shots abound—but rather an autopsy of one man’s life. Anthony Bourdain’s story—that of a middle-class kid turned junkie turned line cook turned chef turned bestselling author turned beloved globetrotting TV star—is already familiar to many. A documentary about him could have been a clip show of the weirdest things he ate, the most famous people he ate with... Читать дальше...