Yet a hunch about the future can feel like a certainty because the present is so overwhelmingly, well, present. It’s staring ...

The economist and Times Opinion columnist Paul Krugman details the president-elect’s “seriously inflationary” economic plans.

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You can see this phenomenon up and down American politics. In hindsight, one harbinger of the 2024 election was a 2022 San ...

Mr. Trump is no one’s idea of a policy wonk, but the role his voters want him to serve is arguably the opposite: that of an ...

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Here’s how to be a watchdog, not a lap dog, for the next four tumultuous years, while holding on to your sanity.

Mr. Cass, a contributing Opinion writer, is the chief economist at American Compass, a conservative economic think tank.

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