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Does the US need a financial or tech giant to propel 5G and thwart Huawei?
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Last Friday, Michael Auslin, a former AEI colleague, wrote a timely opinion piece in Financial Times in which he urgently called for a latter-day financial or tech giant to “step into…
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Payroll tax deferral could be more complicated than it sounds
BY ALAN D. VIARD On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer their employees’ Social Security payroll taxes. The administration claims legal authority to take…
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DiPIETRO: Give local businesses a fighting chance
BY DAVID DIPIETRO We’ve sacrificed and done what was asked of us by King Cuomo during COVID-19. We’ve dealt with masks, moving phase requirements, lack of direction, loss of contact with friends,…
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SWANSON: Reaching the broadband end zone, going the last 5 yards
BY BRET SWANSON We’ve recounted the many ways the pandemic revealed the superlative capacity, coverage, and robustness of the American internet. COVID-19 has even spurred accelerations of long-overdue innovations, such as telemedicine. But intense reliance on network…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Is America going to settle for slow economic growth?
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Just before Independence Day, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated 10-year economic forecast. Basically, it shows a 5 percent bump in real GDP next year before settling into 2…
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HAMMOND: Cuomo administration ducks important questions on nursing homes
BY BILL HAMMOND A new report from the state Health Department tries to deflect blame for thousands of coronavirus deaths in the state’s nursing homes—but undermines its own case by withholding data…
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MCMAHON: Quick economic comeback requires action
BY E.J. McMAHON The coronavirus pandemic has prompted an unprecedented shutdown of normal human activity and commerce across much of the developed world. New York State and the nation have entered uncharted…
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ASTORINO: New York’s fiscal mess has been a long time coming
BY ROB ASTORINO As New York continues to move to reopen our economy and society, the governor and state legislature must also move to rebuild our state. While it’s true that no…
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KOLB: Graduations must be in person
BY BRIAN KOLB This week, the governor announced that high schools will only be allowed to hold “drive thru” graduations this year. It’s yet another misguided policy. It’s a glaring example of…
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DHUME: India could quickly slide towards closed-mindedness, cronyism and mediocrity
BY SADANAND DHUME Will we look back on 2020 as the year India formally ended its nearly 30-year-long romance with globalisation? With the coronavirus continuing its grim march across the planet, India…
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PETHOKOUKIS: America’s cities are suffering from both health and opportunity crises
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS In the 2007 book “The World Without Us,” journalist Alan Weisman speculates about life after people. If everyone suddenly vanished, what would happen to all the stuff we’ve built?…
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BLUMENTHAL: China’s steps backward began under Hu Jintao
BY DAN BLUMENTHAL China’s stunningly reckless response to the coronavirus pandemic has hastened the need for an examination of America’s problematic policy of engagement with China and a determination of what went…
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ORRELL: Pandemics, elites, and the future of the cities
BY BRENT ORRELL Pandemics have not historically been equal-opportunity offenders. Those with resources tend to decamp to country estates while those without bear the brunt of infections and deaths. Two maps from recent editions of…
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PLETKA: Why withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty is no big deal
BY DANIELLE PLETKA In late May, the Trump administration withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, a move that prompted the requisite jeremiads about the international order, arms control, and the fecklessness of…
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MCCOY: America needs to rediscover civics in education
BY BRANDON MCCOY Students will learn what educators value. And if recent scores on national exams for history, geography, and civics are any indication, American educators are undervaluing the knowledge that young…
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Kolb: New York State’s economy was vulnerable before COVID-19
BY BRIAN KOLB State Democrats blaming Washington for our economic troubles is nothing new. (President Trump cut taxes for about 80% of all New Yorkers, and the governor called it an “economic…
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DiPietro: Despite COVID, our work goes on
BY DAVID DIPIETRO I am writing to you to let as many people possible know that myself and my staff are hard at work to help our communities during this time of…
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Alan Bedenko, a local attorney, smears B. Thomas Golisano as ‘a ratfucker’
A lesser-known Buffalo-based attorney who feeds on local government work provided to him by Erie County and his political patron, County Executive Mark Poloncarz, is smearing the billionaire founder of Paychex and…
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HAMMOND: Fact-checking Mujica’s op-ed
BY BILL HAMMOND A fact-check of the newly published op-ed by state budget director Robert Mujica, defending Governor Cuomo’s Medicaid proposals, shows it to include a number of exaggerated or misleading arguments. The…
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MCCONNELL: This war on our institutions must end
BY MITCH McCONNELL United States Senate was made for moments like this. The Framers predicted that factional fever might dominate House majorities from time to time. They knew the country would need…
