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Apr 29 2021
News
Biden’s Economic Plan Would Redistribute Trillions and Expand Government
Franklin D. Roosevelt created the modern government-funded social safety net in the 1930s to aid lower and middle-income families—paid for in part by jacking up taxes on the richest Americans. Dwight Eisenhower built the interstate highway system in the 1950s. John F. Kennedy defined federal industrial policy in the 1960s by pledging to put a man on the moon by decade’s end.
In his
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 12 2020
Data
The Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
During a rousing speech in Pittsburgh on Labor Day, Joe Biden said:
Why in God’s name should a man or woman working in a steel mill making $50,000 a year pay a higher [tax] rate than someone who makes tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street? … The tax code is not fair. It’s simply not fair. The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share.
That statement is demonstrably false, and
Just Facts
Aug 12 2020
Data
Talking Down the Economy
There are numerous factors that impact the U.S. economy, but one has been singled out by economists, media titans and leading politicians as a pervasive underlying force: The public mindset. This key dynamic is significantly influenced by people and institutions who have the public's ear. Though rarely discussed in the current news frenzy surrounding the economy, recent history sheds a great
Just Facts
Aug 22 2021
Opinion
Afghanistan’s fall may trigger other dominoes
Small dominoes can eventually topple big nations. The Taliban started tipping dominoes in local provinces and before long had most of Afghanistan under its control. Kabul was merely the last domino to fall.
The last domino in Afghanistan that is, certainly not the last around the globe.
The aftershocks of the failed U.S. withdrawal will reverberate for some time. If the U.S.
Deseret News
Jun 25 2020
Analysis
“Google paying publishers” is more about PR than the needs of the news industry
Mountain View got the headline it wanted: “Google will start paying publishers for news.”
Just like Menlo Park got the headline it wanted a few months ago: “Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content.”
There are lots of ways to look at how the duopoly looks at its relationship with the news industry — as generous corporate citizens who care about
Nieman Lab
Apr 09 2021
News
The Rise and Fall of the Lincoln Project
There have been plenty of grifters in the political world. But what made the Lincoln Project grift unique was that much of it played out on television.
There was nothing special about the Lincoln Project. Its ads were coarse, but this is a coarse age, and its efforts were neither creative nor particularly offensive. Its opacity and self-dealing, its unwieldy coterie of advisers and
National Review (News)
Jun 02 2020
News
Robert L. Johnson, Founder Of BET And The RLJ Companies, Issues Statement And Proposal For Full Black American Reparations
Is $14 trillion too much to ask for the atonement of 200 plus years of brutal slavery, de facto and de jure government-sponsored social and economic discrimination and the permanent emotional trauma inflicted upon black Americans by being forced to believe in a hypocritical and unfulfilled pledge that “all men are created equal”? This is an existential question that this nation has failed to
Chicago Defender
Jul 21 2018
News
President's Emerging Economic Policy: Picking Winners and Losers
The unorthodox approach could harm some U.S. industries with tariffs, but it also includes concrete plans to maintain America’s technological edge
Wall Street Journal (News)
Apr 23 2021
Analysis
Thanks To Climate Change & COVID, Disaster Capitalism Is Thriving
In February, a historic winter storm and ensuing mass blackouts killed 111 people in Texas. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent due to the climate crisis, but the tragedy was worsened by a system set up to profit when disaster strikes. For days, the price of electricity in many parts of the state remained around $9,000 per megawatt-hour, because the rate changes based on demand.
Refinery29
Mar 26 2021
Opinion
Joe Biden clears very low bar at first press conference
Things go so much more smoothly when Washington reporters actually like the person functioning as president. And so, President Joe Biden cleared the very low bar that was set for his first press conference on Thursday.
It's not that our biggest problems have gone away. Almost 140,000 people have died from the coronavirus since Biden was elected. More than 10 million people remain
Eddie Scarry