Around the dawn of the New Deal, a naïve bumpkin inherits a cool $20 million (nearly half a billion dollars today) from a hitherto unknown relative. He is harassed by big-city swindlers and ridiculed by supercilious sophisticates. Then, confronted b
Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidencefree casino slot machines, I suspect he is now thinking: “What could be so different? I’ve got this.” Well, I just traveled from a reporting trip in Tel Aviv to a conf
A decade ago, Jeff Bezos was expected to make a splash in Washington. In 2013, the Amazon founder bought The Washington Post for $250 million. Three years later, he became the owner of the city’s largest home, spending $23 million for two combined m
ImageImage Elon Musk is a step closer to getting his wish: running an initiative designed to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy.”Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesThe Musk budget-cutting commission It’s official: President-elect Donald Trump is se
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