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Opinion

Almanac for Dec. 27, 2025

Columns

Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2025. There are four days left in the year. Today in history: In 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and bomb attack that killed at least 20 people in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Also on this ...

Are we in a productivity boom?

Editorials

The U.S. economy has been marked this year by the paradox of a rising stock market but a slowing labor market. Could the explanation be a productivity boom, led in part by artificial intelligence? That seems possible given Wednesday’s report that the economy grew a robust 4.3% in the third ...

Comparing socialism to capitalism

Columns

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union "wasn't real socialism." Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union ...

DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ on Epstein files

Columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday it may need a "few more weeks" to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday's ...

Almanac for Dec. 26, 2025

Columns

Today is Friday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2025. There are five days left in the year. Today in history: In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high that killed about 230,000 people across ...