Our world is suffering from a bad case of “Trust Deficit Disorder”. People are feeling troubled and insecure. Trust is at a breaking point. Trust in national institutions. Trust among states. Trust in the rules-based global order.
The Guardian
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Frances Perraudin
– Sep 25, 9:57 AM
Four anti-fracking activists face being the first environmental campaigners to be jailed for a protest in the UK since 1932. Simon Roscoe Blevins, 26, Richard Loizou, 31 and Richard Roberts, 36, were told by a judge to expect custodial sentences…
The New York Times
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Padma Lakshmi
– Sep 25, 8:08 AM
When I was 16 years old, I started dating a guy I met at the Puente Hills Mall in a Los Angeles suburb. I worked there after school at the accessories counter at Robinsons-May. He worked at a high-end men's store. He would come in wearing a gray…
Wall Street Journal
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Richard Rubin
– Sep 25, 3:00 AM
WASHINGTON—That sick-in-the-stomach taxpayer feeling—waiting for an IRS refund that doesn't come—is hitting corporate America. Multinational companies, backed by the Chamber of Commerce, accountants and an in-house critic at…
Wall Street Journal
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Rachel Louise Ensign
– Sep 25, 7:29 AM
When Steven Mnuchin looked to sell his OneWest Bank for $3.4 billion in 2014, a community group with an $800,000 budget tried to block the deal. That led to a nine-hour public hearing where speakers compared the bank's executives to the ebola virus…
