How will Paul Ryan dealwith GOP-trained government-haters? Watching Paul Ryan deliver his high-minded, optimistic call to a better politics on Wednesday, I kept thinking of Marco Rubio. How long ago was it that Rubio, like Ryan, was a bright young conservative talent with nothing but smooth road ahead? Rubio the Florida senator, was at one time […]

Donald Trump will be the GOP’s presidential nominee. Within the party, talk of a brokered Republican National Convention or even a supporting a third-party candidate has circulated among those hoping to stop him from becoming the next president, leaving Trump antagonists across the spectrum to ponder whether there’s any fail-safe left, after November, to stop […]

The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation’s top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows. But those details — and the apparent demise of the Keystone XL pipeline — don’t begin to tell the story of what lies ahead for the economy of Canada, America’s second-largest […]

Dear Strangers, I remember you. Ten months ago, when my cell phone rang with news of my father’s suicide, you were walking into Whole Foods prepared to do your grocery shopping, just as I had been only minutes before you. But I had already abandoned my cart full of groceries and I stood in the […]

In other words — be careful what you wish for| Airline passengers are being packed into planes “like sardines,” says Sen. Chuck Schumer. So he wants the Federal Aviation Administration to set minimum seat-size guidelines. The point, Schumer suggested, is to right an injustice: “It’s just plain unfair that a person gets charged for extra inches […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s something that Democrats, Republicans and independents agree on. When it comes to the economy, they all want to protect Social Security and lower unemployment. That’s where their similarities end. Beyond the top two issues, Americans’ lists of top economic concerns for the next president are more fractured, according to a poll […]

Fear and misinformation about the Zika virus still abound, according to a new survey released by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center. Most notably, the survey finds that more than a third of respondents incorrectly believe that genetically modified mosquitoes have caused the spread of the disease. The survey, which was conducted this […]

Bernie Sanders may not be winning with baby boomers, and he may not be winning with minorities. But the 74-year-old senator has locked up one vote: the producers and peddlers of Internet memes. In a Facebook group called “Bernie Sanders’ Dank Meme Stash” — dank meaning quality, in old-school stoner-speak — a staggering 300,000 supporters […]

A federal judge in California ordered Apple to exploit a security weakness for the iPhone to help law enforcement investigate the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The company is refusing to provide a piece of software that would effectively allow federal investigators to bypass the strong security that Apple implemented in 2014. Bloomberg View columnists Eli […]