Demand for office space has historically mirrored the economic boom-bust cycle pretty closely, but many American offices remain vacant, despite the recent economic recovery.
As part of our ongoing project to update and improve the core documents of American history, we re-present the opening sections of the Declaration of Independence as they ought to have been written, and indeed as it would have been written if the still primitive colonial political process had only been sophisticated enough to restrict participation at important conferences to the appropriately certified, trained and peer-reviewed experts who could have produced a document worth remembering.
The president of the Conference of European Rabbis has condemned a ruling upholding France’s burka ban. Increasing ecumenical cooperation will be essential if religious minorities are to have any luck beating back Europe’s new illiberalism.
There are big diplomatic changes afoot on the Korean peninsula, and they are paying off for all the players. But that doesn’t necessarily make Northeast Asia any safer.
Double-digit increases in NYC health insurance premiums are expected next year. New Yorkers are rightly worried about their own budgets, but the rates spell a problem for the whole country.
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