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…ry in Russia. His public statements in Hong Kong that he was willing to go prison so that others could live freely in a democratic society were, as it turned out, mere rhetoric. Instead of risking prison, he had successfully escaped to a country in which he would be treated as a...

…vestible assets, stock-bond ownership, state of domicile, etc. It’s unlikely to be enacted as scripted unless there’s a Democratic sweep, but its contours probably indicate where HNW taxation is eventually heading. We don’t have enough info to analyze Romney’s tax plan in compara...

… both sides played fast and loose with the facts.) This carping makes the liberals look like sore losers, and far from democratic. Critics accuse them of trying to buy time: a postponement in the elections would give liberals more time to get their political house in order and h...

…f an Obama reelection and makes it harder for Republicans to gain seats in Congress. Faster-rising tax collection and a Democratic stronghold leads to some tax hikes and limited spending cuts. Fiscal policy tightens by about 1.2% of GDP in 2013. � Negative scenario (Probability:...

…tensions of renewable energy incentives and the fate of these provisions may well be linked to the effectiveness of the Democratic minority. EY 20 | Election 2016 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022392

…go to the synagogue but he promised me that he would condemn anti- Semitism. Shortly thereafter, he announced that “the Democratic Russian public denounces anti- Semitism and will do everything in its power to uproot the phenomenon from our society.” In 2008, I met Gorbachev aga...

…o would then vote to select the president. The fear was the GOP controlled House would have just elected Trump. Would Democratic control of the House mean that the House would pick an alternative to Trump as president? Each state delegation has a single vote in selecting a pres...

…hs ago, but Stephen K. Bannon has won. Truculent, anti-immigrant nationalism; disdain for the "deep state"; disparaging democratic allies while celebrating dictators: These are now the pillars of President Trump's rule. In his administration's policy, foreign and domestic, and in...

…thing to back those sordid claims up. Here’s what we do know: Jeffrey Epstein is a secretive billionaire financier and Democratic donor who says he never attended college but whose “background is in physics.” He owns properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico, London, and Paris...

… himself out of the running to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, withdrawing his name after opposition from key Democratic senators indicated they would oppose his nomination. Mr Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and senior economic adviser to Barack Obama in his firs...

…fined and nuanced strategies of repression, the exploitation of open societies, and the spread of illiberal policies in democratic countries themselves. The leaders of today’s authoritarian systems devote full- time attention to the challenge of crippling the opposition without...

…oomberg LP, parent company of Bloomberg News, for more than 15 years. Died June 2. Frank Lautenberg, 89. The five-term Democratic senator from New Jersey who wrote laws raising the legal drinking age to 21 and banning smoking on domestic airline flights. Died June 3 of complicat...

…d $30 million to Harvard and once flew former President Bill Clinton on his 727. Politicians including Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic candidate for governor in New York, and Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, also a Democrat, have returned campaign contributions from him. But Mr. E...

…ast through major shifts in the paradigms that have crippled the region for decades. A resolution for establishing one democratic state in historic Palestine will include as citizens all those who live there and all Palestinians in the Diaspora, reaffirming Palestinian refugees...

…ctor Javert—a prosecutor consumed with taking down the President. Indeed, Weissmann, who has in the past contributed to Democratic candidates, is a particular bet noir and favorite whipping boy for the White House his central role in the Mueller investigation taken there as evide...