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May 01 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Can anyone tame the next internet?
Forces have been unleashed that seem out of control. But is it the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
Exactly a decade ago, Walt Mossberg and I declared the end of Web 2.0 and the beginning of its next iteration: Web 3.0.
There was a recession messing badly with the tech sector at the time, which we dubbed the Econalypse. But we decided to make a loud prediction
Guest Writer - LeftApr 29 2019
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Trump demands NRA 'get its act together quickly' amid internal turmoil
President Donald Trump chastised the National Rifle Association on Monday over infighting that has roiled the gun-rights group, demanding the association “get its act together quickly” as it stares down a probe launched by the state of New York last weekend.
“The NRA is under siege by Cuomo and the New York State A.G., who are illegally using the State’s legal apparatus to take down and
PoliticoFeb 04 2013
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Energy secretary resigning from Obama Cabinet
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will resign from President Barack Obama's Cabinet in coming weeks, he told Energy Department staff in a letter on Friday. Chu, who turns 65 this month, was a leading advocate in the Obama administration for alternative energy development, making him a target of the fossil fuel industry and its conservative supporters in Congress. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel
CNN DigitalApr 02 2015
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Democratic titans say Obama ‘screwed up’ and gave rise to China’s new bank
U.S. efforts to head off a new China-sponsored development bank for the booming Asia region ended in abject failure this week as organizers announced nearly four dozen countries — including some of America’s closest Asian and European allies — have applied to membership, amid growing criticism of how the Obama administration handled the entire episode.
The Chinese head of the
Washington TimesMar 30 2015
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What liberals could learn from Ted Cruz’s flat tax
Ted Cruz has developed a reputation as the most conservative of the major 2016 Republican presidential candidates, but he hasn't taken many specific policy positions to earn that moniker. One exception? His longtime support for a flat tax.
The flat tax dramatically lowers the top tax rate and exempts capital gains and dividends from taxation. It's astonishingly regressive: the rich pay
VoxAug 16 2015
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Why College Tuition is Out of Sight: The Federal Government
Our health care system and our system of higher education have a lot more in common than you might think. As I explained in a previous column at Forbes, in both systems a third-party payer pays a good portion of the bill, leaving consumers and producers with perverse incentives to take advantage of it. The financing of both systems is dysfunctional. There is much waste and inefficiency. And
TownhallMar 26 2015
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The Netherlands Offers Political Lessons for U.S.
By any measure, the US is a remarkably divided nation. Stagnant real wages for the average worker, increasing wealth accumulation for the top 5%, social tension, and competitive elections have all contributed to what many view as one of the most polarized periods in recent American memory.
With gerrymandering, the 24-hour news cycle, the lack of campaign finance restrictions, and a host
International Policy DigestSep 23 2019
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America 'isolated' at UN? General Assembly breaking with US on most votes, report finds
As President Trump prepares to address the U.N. General Assembly this week, a new State Department report shows that the world body is out of sync with U.S. interests in more than two-thirds of votes -- likely raising further concerns within the Trump administration about the organization and America's financial commitment to it.
“The United States continues to be diplomatically
Fox News DigitalJul 12 2019
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How to dramatically reduce gun violence in American cities
This week, Americans woke up to familiar headlines: Over the July 4 holiday weekend, six people were killed and 66 were hurt in shootings in Chicago. Eighteen people were shot in St. Louis. Seventeen in Boston. It was another marker of what often feels like an intractable urban gun violence problem in America.
But in his new book Bleeding Out, criminal justice scholar Thomas Abt argues
VoxApr 12 2019
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Sudan’s longtime leader was ousted in a military coup. Protesters still want democracy.
Omar al-Bashir, an accused war criminal, was arrested by the military on Thursday.
The Sudanese military has ousted president Omar al-Bashir in an apparent coup, following months of intense anti-government protests against the long-serving dictator.
Gen. Awad Ibn Auf, Sudan’s defense minister and former vice president, announced al-Bashir’s overthrow on Thursday, telling the
Vox