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The Financial Page

How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs

Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over.
The New Yorker Interview

We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”

Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
Critic’s Notebook

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and the Collapse of the Hollywood #MeToo Era

The reportage that thrived in the late twenty-tens cannot break through on today’s volatile Internet, where information is misinformation and victims are offenders.
News Desk

How a Scientific Dispute Spiralled Into a Defamation Lawsuit

What does a Harvard Business School professor’s decision to sue the professors who raised questions about her research bode for academic autonomy?
The New Yorker Radio Hour

Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

The Democrats’ top legal strategist in the 2020 Presidential election won nearly every lawsuit brought by Trump’s team. He explains why the threat to democracy is far greater in 2024.
Our Columnists

Why the Biden Administration Is Suing Apple and Investigating Big Grocers

A new generation of trustbusters is trying to use anti-monopoly laws to roll back concentrations of economic power.
Our Columnists

A Financial Reckoning for Donald Trump

The former President’s inability to secure a $464-million bond in his New York civil fraud case is a reminder of the deep legal and financial peril he’s in.
News Desk

Can an American Hold the United Arab Emirates Responsible for a Smear Campaign?

The U.A.E.’s rulers destroyed Hazim Nada’s business. Now he’s fighting back with a lawsuit that challenges what states can get away with outside their borders.
Our Columnists

The Powerful New York Law That Finally Brought Trump to Book

In investigating the former President, New York’s attorney general relied on legislation passed at the behest of one of her Republican predecessors, Jacob Javits.
Daily Comment

The Real Stakes of the Google Antitrust Trial

The case, centering on Google’s dominance in the search-engine industry, will have implications that ripple throughout the tech world, and beyond.
Daily Comment

The Supreme Court’s Damper on the Right to Strike

In a near-unanimous opinion, the Justices made it easier for employers to sue labor unions for damages caused by a work stoppage.
Annals of Education

The Parents Who Fight the City for a “Free Appropriate Public Education”

Children with disabilities have a constitutional right to accommodation in public schools. Securing those rights can bring their families to a breaking point.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Fox News Doesn’t Do Apologies

Rupert Murdoch may have to pay for Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, but who’s going to reimburse American democracy?
Annals of Communications

The Stunning End of Dominion’s Case Against Fox News

The voting-machine company has agreed to a seven-hundred-million-dollar settlement in its defamation suit against Rupert Murdoch’s cable news network.
Annals of Communications

What Dominion Has to Prove in Its Case Against Fox News

Did the hosts of the country’s most popular cable news network know that Trump’s lies about the election were untrue?
Satire from The Borowitz Report

Tucker Carlson Produces Doctor’s Note Claiming He Would Be Unable to Raise Right Hand in Court

“Any attempt to raise said hand would result in excruciating, unbearable pain,” the note from the Fox News host’s orthopedist said.
Comment

Where Dominion v. Fox Could Lead

The case may have profound implications not only for the two companies but also for the legal framework in which the media operate.
The Political Scene Podcast

The Fox News Defamation Lawsuit: “Money, Ideology, Truth, Lies—It’s All Right There”

Our political roundtable explores the fallout from the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against one of the most powerful TV networks in America.
Satire from The Borowitz Report

Rupert Murdoch Calls Telling Truth Under Oath Worst Experience of His Life

“I don’t know how they manage it,” the media mogul said, of inveterate truthtellers. “I’ve told the truth once, and I don’t intend to do it again.”
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 23rd

“Can you help us understand some pending tech lawsuits?”