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Washington blocked Spirit Airlines, now it should learn from it

Spirit Airlines never became a symbol of everything Americans loved about flying. It became a symbol of something more important: choice. At a time when Americans remain sensitive to the cost of travel and policymakers continue debating the future of competition policy, Spirit’s struggles offer an important lesson about the difference between protecting competition and protecting competitors. For years, Spirit represented a simple but powerful idea: travelers should decide what matters to them and pay accordingly. Want the cheapest possible ticket and do not care about checked ...

Is TMI really such a bad thing? Here’s the case for oversharing

Many people know the sting of having said too much, a cringey feeling that bubbles up after sharing the wrong details at the wrong time. Now, imagine drunkenly telling two of your superiors about the time you had a bathroom emergency onstage in front of hundreds of people. Leslie John feared she had killed her career. Instead, it became an asset. "Those two grand poo-bahs, they became my closest mentors," said John, a Harvard business professor and author of "Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing." "And it's not in spite of my having shared my embarrassing story with them, ...

America at 250: Expansion of a new nation started with trip along the Ohio River

Editor’s note: It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. Through these waters flowed settlers, soldiers, merchants, dreamers and pioneers determined to carve opportunity from the frontier. In many ways, the journey chronicled this week represents the true beginning of America’s westward. What started with a determined group of men leaving Massachusetts in the ...

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Golden Tempo faces pace challenge at Belmont Stakes

The front-running horses in the Kentucky Derby last month completed the first quarter-mile in under 23 seconds and a half-mile in under 47 seconds. That blistering pace paved the way for Golden Tempo's last-to-first charge from the back of the pack to win by a neck. Five weeks later, the ...