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Facebook Admits Error–‘Fact Checkers’ Still Complicit
Mark Zuckerberg seems to want to reverse Facebook’s censorship efforts, but those publications that participated in the program are complicit.
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President-Elect Trump’s New White Paper on Conflicts of Interest
In January 2017, President-Elect Trump held a press conference and released a conflict of interest policy. In what feels like a lifetime ago, many people learned for the first time about the Emoluments Clause. The paper, produced by Morgan Lewis, offered this analysis: From President Washington to Vice President Rockefeller to President-Elect Trump, many of […]
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Tyler Cowen: Why Do We Refuse To Learn From History?
Why are we forgetting history’s lessons? We’re told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren’t sticking? Today’s guest regularly invokes what he calls The Great Forgetting. The striking thing about this collective amnesia is that it doesn’t apply only to distant, ancient history, […]
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Georgia Man Sues Glynn County Police After He Was Arrested for Refusing To Give ID
A Georgia man is suing the Glynn County Police Department after he was arrested for refusing to give them his name. The arrest lacked probable cause, an officer later wrote in an incident report. Brunswick, Georgia, resident David Smiley filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on January 2 alleging that two Glynn County police officers […]
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Instant Analysis of the TikTok Oral Argument
A few moments ago, the Supreme Court wrapped oral argument in the TikTok case. It stretched nearly three hours, but could have easily been finished in one. I do not think the Court can settle this matter one way or another in the next nine days. There are simply too many issues. Let me start with […]
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Janet Yellen’s Short-Term Thinking Could Cost the U.S. Big
Janet Yellen gets low marks from most financial experts for her term as Treasury Secretary. The Treasury Secretary’s primary role is managing U.S. debt issuance, determining the mix of loan terms and debt structures to minimize interest costs. During the pandemic, interest rates were very low—below 1 percent in most instances—and instead of locking in […]
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Venezuela’s Maduro Begins Third Term Amid Contested Election
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on Friday, despite unresolved disputes over the July presidential election and international pressure for him to step down. “The power granted to me by the Constitution has not been given to me by a foreign government or a gringo government,” Maduro declared in […]
