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Has King Dollar been dethroned? Harvard economist Ken Rogoff joins WSJ’s Take On the Week Podcast to talk about why he thinks the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is in decline, what this could ...

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An American Pope Emerges as a Potential Contrast to Trump on the World Stage Pope Leo XIV’s focus on refugees and his pluralistic background may offer a different view of U.S. values from ...

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who dropped out of a community college before he founded Turning Point USA at the age of 18, is amplifying a Wall Street Journal article which features high school ...