Articles 2024
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The iPhone of 1939 Helped Liberate Europe. And Women.
Bloomberg Opinion, October 25, 2019
A troubled chemist invented nylon, the fiber that shaped the world. Then we took it for granted.
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Homelessness Isn’t Just a Humanitarian Problem
Bloomberg Opinion, October 03, 2019
California activists are undermining their cause by ignoring and stigmatizing legitimate concerns about social disorder.
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Homelessness Isn’t Just a Humanitarian Problem
Bloomberg Opinion, October 03, 2019
California activists are undermining their cause by ignoring and stigmatizing legitimate concerns about social disorder.
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Italy’s Hug Makes China Feel Warm Inside
Bloomberg Opinion, March 25, 2019
The first G-7 country to join Belt and Road embraces Beijing’s benign view of its place in the world.
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Not Even the Pope Can Maintain a Monopoly
Reason, April 2019
Religiously traumatic and militarily ominous, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 also created a crisis for the European textile industry. The problem, in a word, was alum.
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How Would a Kavanaugh Hearing Play Out in 2054?
Bloomberg Opinion, September 28, 2018
Ubiquitious electronic records could show who’s telling the truth. Unless privacy laws make it impossible.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Doesn’t Have to Be Politics as Usual
Bloomberg Opinion, September 23, 2018
A Q&A with Robert Poole, author of “Rethinking America’s Highways.”
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Blockbusters Can Make for Good Art, Too
Bloomberg Opinion, September 10, 2018
While the “Popcorn Oscar” was a flop, Hollywood can still reward big-budget films that are as good as any indie flick.
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The Thrill of the Bird Hunt
Bloomberg Opinion, August 07, 2018
Finding the dockless Bird scooters and getting paid to charge them is frustrating and doesn’t pay much. But it’s fun.
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It's Not Just the Economy
Bloomberg Opinion, August 02, 2018
Do economic issues energize voters only when times are bad? Or, as Democrats claim, are GOP candidates wary of bragging about a boom when wages are still stagnant and the promised benefits of tax cuts haven’t helped the middle class, at least not yet? Bloomberg Opinion columnists Ramesh Ponnuru, Albert R. Hunt, Virginia Postrel, Noah Smith, Jonathan Bernstein and Conor Sen discuss the midterm election climate.