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Amid all the blaring headlines coming out of Washington, here’s a piece of news that is getting far too little attention: The US is on course for fiscal breakdown. That’s the unambiguous message from the Congressional Budget Office’s newly updated long-term projections. Unless Congress changes course, there’ll be a reckoning, and it will be grim.

As the CBO details, deficit spending is more out of control than ever. Both parties share the blame, as do both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. And all should remember that investors’ appetite for US government debt isn’t limitless.

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Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Was a Stunt. It Worked. — Nia-Malika Henderson

If the Switch 2 Stumbles, Nintendo Has No Plan B — Gearoid Reidy and Taylor Tyson

You Can NOT Be Serious! — John Authers

Here’s How Trump Could Serve a Third Term — Barbara McQuade

The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted — Kathryn Edwards

Big Pharma Should Be Worried About Who RFK Jr. Fires Next — Lisa Jarvis

Is Champagne’s Bubble About to Burst? — Lara Williams

The S&P 500’s Safety Nets Are Gone — Jonathan Levin

Is This Really How American Exceptionalism Ends? — Allison Schrager

• In a normal world, the Wisconsin elections should have nothing to do with Tesla. But that’s not the world we live in now, says Liam Denning.
• Are Democrats showing signs of life? Sarah Green Carmichael sees a few of them.
• Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is turning into a spectacle somewhere between farce and crisis, says Andreas Kluth. It’s also probably based on a bad map.

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