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PETHOKOUKIS: What America can learn from China’s tech sector crackdown
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Amazon founder Jeff Bezos turned 38 in January 2002, and many of what turned out to be the company’s biggest accomplishments — Amazon Web Services, Amazon Prime, Kindle —…
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POMERLEAU: Lawmakers should not give up on ‘user fees’
BY KYLE POMERLEAU Lawmakers are currently negotiating the details of an infrastructure package. Lawmakers want to avoid adding significantly to the debt but are split on the best method to raise revenue…
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GREENWALT: China already outspends US military?
BY WILLIAM C. GREENWALT Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is under pressure from within his party to hold down defense spending, so he has advocated focusing less on the defense…
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McCUSKER: Biden budget stalls national security
BY ELAINE McCUSKER Last week, the Biden administration released a massive American Jobs Plan. In contrast, today the administration announced a proposed cut to the Defense Department budget. As recommended by the bipartisan…
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ABRAMS: Conservatives should not give up on American education
BY SAMUEL ABRAMS Surveys and reports showing that only small numbers of conservatives and Republicans believe higher education has a positive effect on the country regularly make national news. The explicit rationale for these sentiments is…
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HOWELL: When satellite chickens come home to terrestrial roosts
By Bronwyn Howell For several reasons, 1990s New Zealand was a natural test bed for the deployment of nascent broadband technologies and different business models for their commercialization: It is geographically contained…
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JAMISON: Journalism preservation is based on misinformation
BY MARK JAMISON According to members of Congress, American journalism is on the ropes. “Newspapers are locked in a life-or-death struggle with tech giants,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). “We have seen thousands…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Attacking corporations for their political views is bad for American business and the economy
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS It may seem merely silly, a GOP senator tweeting #GowokeGobroke over Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Georgia over the state’s new voting law. Despite the controversy,…
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PETHOKOUKIS: That Senate parliamentarian did Democrats a favor
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS More trouble ahead for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief/stimulus bill? Last week, the Senate parliamentarian told lawmakers that the plan’s proposed increase in the federal minimum wage to…
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ORRELL: What is the CDC waiting for on workplace masking?
BY BRENT ORRELL Masks work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, something we’ve known since early last year back when masking got caught up in the culture war despite the best attempts of…
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ABRAMS: Trump did not extinguish the American dream
BY SAMUEL J. ABRAMS Despite nationwide protests, acts of sedition, utter chaos in governance, constant divisive rhetoric, a global pandemic, and many troubling policy pronouncements, the Trump administration did not destroy the…
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McMAHON: State budget shaping up as embarrassment of riches—for now
BY E.J. McMAHON Governor Cuomo’s Division of the Budget (DOB) and the Legislature’s fiscal committees have agreed to boost New York State’s revenue projection for fiscal years 2021 and 2022 by $2.45…
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HAMMOND: COVID mortality patterns must inform nursing home regulation in New York
BY BILL HAMMOND A closer look at newly released data about coronavirus in New York nursing homes raises questions about what factors contributed to high infection and mortality rates—and what reforms should…
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BARFIELD: In SolarWinds hack, was America the helpless Gulliver?
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Almost a month after the most recent — and most devastating — Russian cyberattack, we know a bit more about what we know, but still alarmingly little about what…
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SCISSORS: India clings to a failed status quo
BY DEREK SCISSORS Earlier this week, India’s Supreme Court indefinitely stayed new, important farm laws, creating a court-appointed committee to . . . do something, maybe. This has been hailed as prudent and…
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VIARD: Payroll tax deferral ends with a whimper
BY ALAN D. VIARD In previous posts (here and here), I discussed the Trump administration’s decision last August to allow employers to defer the Social Security payroll taxes that they would otherwise have withheld from their…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Why pro-progress policymaking should inform almost everything Washington does
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Economic optimists (like me) who are hoping for a second Roaring Twenties have to concede version 2.0 isn’t starting off so good. Not only is the COVID-19 pandemic getting worse —…
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POMERLEAU: Biden should improve his corporate tax proposal
BY KYLE POMERLEAU Last week, Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their Senate races in Georgia. Joe Biden will enter the White House on January 20 with a large Democratic…
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HOWELL: Should traditional or social media content include warnings about misinformation?
BY BRONWYN HOWELL The debate over whether social media platforms should be held accountable for ensuring the content they carry is “truthful” (whatever that means — perhaps “not fake news” is a…
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EBERSTADT: Big government’s overlooked Americans: a dearth of data has kept suffering hidden
BY NICHOLAS EBERSTADT Despite the information revolution, the Big Data explosion, and the advent of all-but-universal connectivity, American social policy is dogged by a huge knowledge gap. For years — sometimes decades…
