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Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Josh Barro, who writes the newsletter Very Serious, and Olivia Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, [...]

The article focuses on the varied reactions of Times Opinion writers to Kamala Harris's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, highlighting its emotional impact, effective reintroduction of her candidacy, and the overall success of the convention.

The article assesses the performances of U.S. Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota' Governor Tim Walz in a recent vice-presidential debate, highlighting Vance's ability to present a polished version of Trumpism while also examining the weaknesses in both candidates' rhetoric. Topics discussed include Vance's handling of immigration, his responses to questions about the 2020 election, and the contrasting approaches to policy presentation between Vance and Walz.

Where's the loyalty? Starbucks is changing its My Starbucks Rewards loyalty program so that rewards are tied to dollars spent instead of number of visits. To no one's surprise, some [...]

Donald Trump's rise from joke candidate to likely Republican nominee surprised all the supposed experts, including me. But 2,000 miles from Washington, in the southwestern American desert, we should have [...]

In the Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders is calling for a political revolution, saying his movement can sweep in policy changes that would seem impossible in traditional American politics. One [...]

When Steve Forbes ran for president in 1996 on a plan that called for no taxes on dividends and capital gains, Mitt Romney, then a private citizen, took out a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIf you were Donald Trump, you would probably summarize the academic paper's finding as follows: China is beating us. A new working paper from the economists David Autor, David [...]

Senator Bernie Sanders's health care plan is advancing a notion that has long been out of fashion in American politics: that the federal government should provide a new, expensive service [...]

So let us suppose, reader, that you have won Wednesday's $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. Congratulations! You have some important decisions to make, such as what ailing magazine to acquire and [...]

Two members of California's state assembly are trying to give residents a tax break with a bill that would exempt tampons and sanitary napkins from the state's sales tax. There's [...]

Data released by the I.R.S. on Wednesday shows that tax rates on the income of America's 400 wealthiest taxpayers rose sharply to 22.9 percent in 2013, erasing a majority of [...]

Like Rand Paul before him, Ted Cruz is promoting a tax plan that relies heavily on a value-added tax, or VAT. And like Mr. Paul, Mr. Cruz is not calling [...]

At your dry cleaner, it probably says it right there on the coat hangers: ''We love Our Customers.'' But I have bad news: Your dry cleaner does not actually love [...]

Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, would dedicate 99 percent of their wealth to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative drew a remarkable combination of adulation [...]

Frequent customers of Starwood Hotels & Resorts are reacting emotionally to the news that Marriott International is acquiring Starwood, which owns the Westin, Sheraton and W hotel chains. It seems [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDI wrote last week about rising life expectancy: Children born today will most likely live on average to their late 80s, well above the current average life expectancy of [...]

All the Republican presidential candidates say they want to make the tax code simpler. But no candidate has been more aggressive about simplicity than Carly Fiorina, who says ''our tax [...]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 78.8 years in 2013 -- 76.4 years for men, 81.2 years for [...]

The Republican presidential candidates talked a lot about their tax plans at last week's debate, but most of the conversation was not very illuminating. Here are some details you may [...]

In last week's Democratic Party debate, Bernie Sanders stuck up for the idea that Americans are prepared to elect a democratic socialist, which is how he describes himself. ''We're gonna [...]

In the 1998 film ''There's Something About Mary,'' there is a scene where Ben Stiller's character picks up a hitchhiking drifter. The drifter explains that he's really a businessman, and [...]

Donald Trump's tax plan, released Monday, does not live up to the populist language he has offered on taxes all summer. When talking about taxes in this campaign, Donald Trump [...]

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an associate dean at the Yale School of Management and an expert on corporate leadership, has become a surprising bit player in the 2016 presidential campaign. At last [...]

When I wrote about ''The Art of the Deal'' for this weekend's Times issue of Sunday Business, I couldn't fit all the best nuggets from the book into a single [...]

''I wrote 'The Art of the Deal,' '' said Donald Trump, introducing himself at the beginning of Wednesday's Republican presidential debate, before moving on to his next qualification for the [...]

Jeb Bush says he wants to make the American economy grow at 4 percent a year, or nearly 2 percentage points faster than the Congressional Budget Office expects in the [...]

In recent weeks, Donald Trump has torn up the usual Republican script on taxes. He has called for tax cuts for the middle class while complaining of ''outrageous'' tax breaks [...]

For the last few years, a small but prominent group of conservative writers and thinkers has urged the Republican party to rethink its economic agenda with a greater focus on [...]

Donald Trump is expected to release a tax plan in the next few weeks. What will it say? It's always risky to predict what Mr. Trump will do, but we [...]

''Frankly, it's more related to Asian people,'' Jeb Bush said Monday in defense of his use of the term ''anchor baby.'' It had to have been one of the least [...]

There was a bit of good news buried in an update of the Congressional Budget Office's economic projections released Tuesday. It has increased its estimate of how many Americans are [...]

Donald Trump may be the ''post-policy candidate,'' but when you strip away the bluster and the outrageous commentary that have defined his campaign to find his occasional, substantive statements about [...]

When young, trendy companies prepare for initial public offerings, their financial statements often show rapid growth but little profit. Investors are expected to take a leap of faith and bet [...]

A proposed increase in the minimum wage in New York State will be substantial, but that's really not what bothers some economists. It's that the raise would apply only to [...]

It reads like a dry, 1,184-word memorandum about fiscal projections. But the International Monetary Fund's memo on Greek debt sustainability, explaining why the I.M.F. cannot participate in a new bailout [...]

Economists agree: If the eurozone does not break up, it will have to move closer together. They're right. But it's easy to understand why Europeans are not eager to heed [...]

Jeb Bush said last week that Americans would ''need to work longer hours'' if we're going to meet his ambitious target of 4 percent real annual economic growth -- nearly [...]

If you're a homeowner, you probably don't like paying property taxes. But economists like property taxes for the same reason taxpayers hate them: They're hard to avoid. A 2008 study [...]

In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, Senator Rand Paul announced his tax plan. While Herman Cain had his 9-9-9 plan, you can think of Mr. Paul's approach as [...]

Jeb Bush set out an aggressive economic growth target in his campaign announcement speech Monday: four percent real G.D.P. growth, for a decade. ''It's possible,'' he said. ''It can be [...]

Don't worry, nobody is coming for your enormous rollaboard suitcase just yet. Last Tuesday, the International Air Transport Association made headlines by announcing a new guideline for carry-on baggage. They [...]