Called Poppy by his family, Gampy by his grandchildren and 41 by his son, Mr. Bush was a patrician by birth and a preppy by inclination, yet in many ways the most human of presidents. He was hardly the towering figure Reagan was, but neither was he as remote. His foibles were easily parodied, but…
Since launching Goop in 2008, actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been a divisive presence in the burgeoning wellness industry. Her comments in a Wall Street Journal Magazine profile, in which she claimed claimed credit for making yoga popular, may end up making that ambivalence even stronger. Paltrow was a subject of a puff piece in the…
Politicians from both sides of the aisle, foreign dignitaries, and all living US presidents descended on Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday for the funeral of President George H.W. Bush. The 41st president died Friday at the age of 94. The Wednesday service is the first presidential state funeral since Gerald Ford died in 2006. With…
“OF COURSE NOT, I’m not an idiot,” says Liu Yongli, a chauffeur in Beijing, when asked whether he has ever paid personal income tax. Despite earning well above the tax-free threshold, Mr Liu (not his real name) breezily explains that he has never faced any consequences for tax-dodging. Cavalier views like his may help explain…
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senior senators said on Tuesday that a classified briefing by the C.I.A. director had only solidified their belief that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, ordered the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Prince Mohammed “is a wrecking ball,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South…
For the first time in a while, stock market investors are being spooked this week by what’s happening in the bond market. And the reason has something to do with an occurrence that is not exactly in the everyday investor’s lexicon: an inverted yield curve. Put simply, an inverted yield curve happens when bond yields…
President Donald Trump warned as part of a Tuesday tweetstorm that a trade deal with China could still fall through but said preliminary negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping were encouraging. "President Xi and I want this deal to happen, and it probably will. But if not remember, I am a Tariff Man," Trump said.…
QATAR was the first Arab state to join OPEC after its founding in 1960. Now it will be the first Arab state to leave. On December 3rd the emirate’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, said his country was exiting the oil cartel in order to “focus efforts” on gas production. The decision takes effect on January…
WASHINGTON — President Trump cast his trade accord with President Xi Jinping of China as a huge victory for American farmers, automakers and other key political constituencies — statements that helped send volatile financial markets higher on Monday and seemed intended to calm worries about the economic toll of a protracted trade war. Yet 48…
U.S. District Court Judge Peter J. Messitte on Monday approved subpoenas filed by the attorneys general of Washington D.C. and Maryland in a case alleging President Donald Trump profited off of the presidency, the Associated Press reports. The records that are scheduled to be seized in discovery stand to offer a more clear picture of…
