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At a private New York meeting in October 1940, William Knudsen made a desperate plea to the automobile industry’s top executives. Knudsen himself had been the president of General Motors until a...
DATE: March 28, 2020 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
President Donald Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC’s Joe Kernen. The first American case had been announced the...
DATE: March 17, 2020 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
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
