| Jun 7, 2023 | RoundupThe debt ceiling drama ended with more of a whimper than a bang, with President Biden averting both a default and the harshest safety net cuts the GOP was demanding. But as Karen Dolan explains this week — and as cartoonist Khalil Bendib clearly agrees —...
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| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, the debt ceiling deal President Biden signed into law recently, served its primary purpose: avoiding default on our nation’s debt, which would have plunged the economy into chaos. President Biden also skillfully repelled the...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn the Disney movie Frozen, the snowman Olaf famously said: “Some people are worth melting for.” But as Disney itself has discovered, extremist legislators are definitely not. All of corporate America needs to learn that lesson. Like many companies, Disney made...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews...
