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Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America’s attorney-general
Will the Senate be brave enough to block Donald Trump’s other outlandish nominees?
Culture
Woodrow Wilson’s reputation continues to decline
A dispassionate new biography chronicles the former president’s hostility to suffrage
Business
Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
A hard line means hard cash
China
Trump, trade and feeding China’s pigs
As a trade war looms, China looks to cut its reliance on America
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Helping America’s hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping
China’s leader is a risk-taker. How far will he go in confronting America?
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How Donald Trump could win the future
The Democrats’ appeal to Silicon Valley is eroding
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Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
He has the power to do so, but it would be another norm-smashing act
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Democrats are still processing their defeat
Three factions are competing to explain the party to itself
Leaders
From Nixon to China, to Trump to Tehran
Iran is weak. For America’s next president that creates an opportunity
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Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
NYC is in a race against the incoming Republican trifecta
Business
Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
Prosecutors allege one of India’s richest men paid off local officials
Briefing
Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words
Our analysis of 38,000 posts on X reveal a changed man
Briefing
Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem besotted. Where is their bromance headed?
Past precedent is not encouraging
Finance & economics
Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
Leaders
Elon Musk is Donald Trump’s disrupter-in-chief
The entrepreneur will be let loose on America’s government
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How gaga is MAHA?
RFK junior, Dr Oz and co. have the potential to do harm, but also some good