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Iranians complain about the economy. They always have. I heard these complaints every time I visited Iran between 2004 and 2012, and I heard them from both middle-class people and the working poor. That Iranians complain about the economy was also something economists told me: People complain, they said, because they complain. But the numbers […]

Reasonable people can differ about books, and about authors. My Lee Child, your Walter Mosley. My Alice Munro, your Carol Shields. I am a reasonable woman but there is no differing with me about James Marshall’s brilliance in the George and Martha children’s stories. First of all, he took their names not from the father […]

When President Trump imposed tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines, I was reminded of a line from George Orwell: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” While Orwell’s comment was focused on military and political issues of the late […]

After Jian Ghomeshi was fired as the host of a popular C.B.C. Radio program in 2014 and then arrested on five charges related to sexual assault, the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported quickly appeared on Twitter. Credit…Franziska Barczyk. 15000 euro lenen

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: As markets drop, take the long view • That’s the advice of Neil Irwin, one of our economics correspondents, after the Dow fell 1,175 points on Monday, its largest single-day point decline ever. Here are four takeaways […]

BERLIN — Like any good compromise, the proposed coalition deal for a new German government has left just about everyone unhappy. But in the week since the agreement was announced, bubbling dissatisfaction has reached a boil. Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared on national television trying to quell a mutiny in her ranks over the new “grand […]

This month the New York City Opera will stage “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna,” Jose (Pepe) Martinez and Leonard Foglia’s opera about Mexican immigrants, featuring mariachi music, at the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In conjunction with the production, which runs from Jan. 25 to 28, the opera company has organized a […]

Nadia Boujarwah knows personally that shopping for plus-size clothes can be difficult. But it was only while she was a student at Harvard Business School that she realized something else: The lack of options presented a commercial opportunity. A year after graduating, Ms. Boujarwah and a business school classmate, Lydia Gilbert, began testing the market […]

New TV shows, museum openings, film releases and concerts — it’s a lot to keep track of. Let us help. For the week of Jan. 21, seven events in New York and elsewhere not to be missed: Film: Dakota Fanning’s Double Feature Jan. 26; pleasestandbyfilm.com. Jan. 22; tntdrama.com. Dakota Fanning is having a moment, starring […]

SIDANGKOU, China — By day, the factory workers pound sheets of brass into cylinders and slather metal buttons with glue. By night, they take their creations to the street and begin to play. The soothing melodies flow through cornfields, street markets and public squares. They interweave with the shouts of street vendors hawking tofu and […]