The giant credit card company offers a textbook case in abuse of market power to buy off or crush potential competitors and reap excess profits at consumer expense.

All polls are prisoners of subjective assumptions. As a great student of public opinion said, ‘Don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin.’

How many Republican voters appalled by pro-Nazi porn will desert North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson? And how many who respect Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will desert Trump?

Rates have been cut by a full half-point. It’s about time.

Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?

A different course on the Middle East is urgently needed, and harder than you might think.

Kamala Harris did well in the debate but missed some opportunities to remind voters of Trump’s sheer craziness.

Will better-than-average mobilization of the potential Democratic base rescue Harris-Walz from a cliff-hanger election?

The counterweight to insanely greedy capital has to be mobilized labor.

The conversion of the high court into a body of opportunistic partisan hacks, courtesy of Trump’s three appointees, needs to be a bigger issue in the election.