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In January 1937, near the end of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term as president, Life magazine published a map of the United States spread over two full pages. The headline read: “What President...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2020 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
When Thomas Philippon moved to Boston from his native France 20 years ago, he was a graduate student on a budget, and he was happy to discover how cheap American telephone use was. In those days of...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2019 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
When Bill Clinton became president, his top legislative priority was health care. When Barack Obama became president, he first had to prevent a depression, but then he too turned to health care....
DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
You could always slight the very rich by calling them moneybags, robber barons, fat cats or plutocrats. Billionaire was a neutral word, grounded in math: Such a person could spend $10 million a...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2019 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong. The colonists were not responding to a tax increase. They were responding to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted a tea monopoly in...
DATE: Nov. 27, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
Democrats won’t be able to do much policy-making over the next two years, because of President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate. But they can use their House majority to do more than...
DATE: Nov. 21, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
The Supreme Court is an unusual institution because it somehow manages to be both majestic and intimate. The court is housed in a marble temple with soaring columns, and it has made some of the...
DATE: Sept. 26, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Bros., the official economic statistics – the ones that fill news stories, television shows and presidential tweets – say the U.S. economy is fully recovered....
DATE: Sept. 21, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
John McCain was no moderate. He won Barry Goldwater’s Arizona seat in 1986 and was, for the most part, a fitting heir to Goldwater. McCain supported a smaller federal government, a hawkish foreign...
DATE: Aug. 29, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
Donald Trump, who spent much of the past four years as a historically unpopular president, lost his bid for re-election Tuesday. His approval rating hasn’t approached 50 percent since he took...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former enemies...
DATE: June 12, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain’s stores, a cluttered mix of gifts,...
DATE: May 9, 2018 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
