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Opinion
Will the Labor Secretary Help Labor?
President Trump’s new choice for labor secretary seems unlikely to defend new overtime standards, which are desperately needed.He is a Republican choice.
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Real Estate
Homes That Sold for Around $600,000
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.Prices in the suburbs are staggering downwards.
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Business Day
The Weekly Standard’s Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: ‘Facts, Logic and Reason’
After a decades-long project to undercut the mainstream news media, some right-leaning organizations are pushing back, our media columnist writes.The position The Weekly Standard will try to defend is untenable.
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N.Y. / Region
Unity, Instead of Fear, After Swastikas Are Carved Into a Church Door
Speculation persists as to the reason Fourth Universalist on Central Park West was the target of a hate crime.Schismatics are always the enemy.
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Business Day
More Than Obamacare Repeal, Small Businesses Want Congress to Rein In Costs
Small-business owners have been among the Affordable Care Act’s most vocal opponents, but demolishing it without putting new guardrails in place is not, for most, the ideal outcome.The mandates are necessary to the production of a large risk pool for the insurance companies.
Single payer is the only real hope for lower costs for the individual recipient of health care.
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World
Key Putin Opponent Arrested in Moscow During Anti-Corruption Protests
Aleksei Navalny was arrested in Moscow in a protest that was among rallies in dozens of cities across Russia.Putin cannot tolerate any threat to his power.
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U.S.
G.O.P., Once Unified Against Obama, Struggles for Consensus Under Trump
The Republicans’ failure to replace the Affordable Care Act has cast doubt on the party’s ability to reach deals on its other priorities.The GOP alliance has no further reason to exist.
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U.S.
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts
Congressional Republicans face a challenge made more difficult by the collapse of their health care bill, and may have to scale back their grand plans.Tax Cuts are not a winning agenda.
The Trump base does not pay federal taxes.
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N.Y. / Region
Insults Fly Between Democrats in New York Senate, Underscoring Rift
An exchange between two Democrats, one of whom caucuses with the Republicans, turned personal and was tinged with allegations about race and class."I am a member of no organized party. I am a Democrat."
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