Business and Economics | Opinion

Its refusal to lower interest rates is a mistake.

By Jen Harris

Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.

By Madeleine Orr

The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.

By Michael E. Murray

Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.

By Julia Angwin

After we survived one round of economic Russian roulette, Donald Trump is asking us to take another spin, only this time with many more bullets in the chamber.

By Robert E. Rubin and Kenneth I. Chenault

He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.

By Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld

Can liberal justices reclaim judicial restraint?

By Linda Greenhouse

The Biden administration seems to be in denial about China’s staggering advantage.

By David Wallace-Wells

Some of Biden’s new tariffs targeting China make sense. But others seem motivated by a desire to outflank Trump in Rust Belt swing states.

By Steven Rattner

The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.

By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük

We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.

By John M. Barry

Electric vehicles shouldn’t be a luxury item, but Biden’s tariffs mean they may remain so.

By Gernot Wagner and Conor Walsh

Gotham’s 400th birthday calls for a celebration worthy of the great metropolis it is.

By Kenneth T. Jackson

China’s economy has reached a dead end. Getting out will mean more trade friction with the United States.

By Anne Stevenson-Yang

We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see.

By Ethan Zuckerman

With its TikTok bill, Congress sent a message to the world: You cannot disregard basic internet norms and expect to be treated like any other country.

By Tim Wu

Don’t bet the house on a rosy future.

By David Brooks

The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.

By Stephen Markley

The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

By Stephanie Cooke

An economist explains why his lens makes him so much more optimistic about the state of our economy than the average American.

By Justin Wolfers

He insisted on the value of working with those we disagree with.

By Cass R. Sunstein

Biden’s opposition to Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel is pernicious political posturing.

By Roger Lowenstein

Most Latinos are not rootless, illegal transients as some citizens may think, but a force for American progress.

By Marie Arana

While Trump’s economic policy had serious flaws in his first term, the prospect of what he could do in a second term is frightening.

By Steven Rattner

If the Supreme Court sides with social media platforms in NetChoice v. Paxton, that will jeopardize our ability to control our own future.

By Tim Wu

Carve the names of climate change deniers deep and large, so that those who come after us need not search the archives.

By Nate Loewentheil

The divide between classes can’t be healed with economic remedies alone.

By David Brooks

The city is rewriting its antiquated zoning code. We should seize the chance to create a metropolis of opportunity that evolves with the times.

By Cara Eckholm

The gig economy is expanding and exploiting more workers.

By Terri Gerstein

What will it take for the airline company to recover?

By Bill Saporito