Tag: Politics/International Relations
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Opinion | Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind
[ad_1] Dec. 28, 2023 12:49 pm ET It’s (almost) election year, baby! Every year is important in its way, and most elections matter to someone. Even so, 2024 promises to be unusually electorally exciting due to the sheer amount of voting across the democratic world—and over what issues. What seems likely to be an awful…
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Opinion | AI and Journalism Need Each Other
[ad_1] In the Associated Press newsroom a decade ago, I witnessed the birth of a new era: AI penning news. Before artificial intelligence rose to its current prominence, it wasn’t tech luminaries but journalists at AP who floated the audacious idea of machines taking up editorial roles. As I watched lines of code spin stories,…
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Opinion | The Employee Retention Tax Credit Is the Biggest Covid Scam
[ad_1] It’s hard to feel sorry for the Internal Revenue Service, but cleaning up for Congress is never fun. The Covid employee retention tax credit is turning into a classic case of government waste and fraud. Congress created the mess, leaving it to the IRS to mop up. Pandemic transfer payments and student-loan forbearance ended…
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Opinion | Nikki Haley Is Now on MAGA’s GOP Enemies List
[ad_1] Successful political movements build coalitions by addition, but one trait of today’s MAGA leaders is that they focus on subtraction. Donald Trump regularly trashes anyone who doesn’t support him for the GOP nomination as a “RINO,” or Republican in name only, or much worse. And now his son, Donald Trump Jr., has cast out…
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Opinion | American Schools and Foreign Money
[ad_1] Updated Dec. 26, 2023 6:45 pm ET Congress is debating how to address the intellectual corruption of America’s elite universities, and one idea is to require that academic institutions disclose funding from U.S. adversaries. The House this month passed the Deterrent Act, 246-170, to shine a light on the billions of dollars that flow…
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Opinion | Trump’s Fate and Other 2024 Cliffhangers
[ad_1] Will inflation keep coming down? Will Ukraine be lost? Will Israel prevail in Gaza? [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Alexei Navalny Lives
[ad_1] Some residual good news for courage in 2023: Alexei Navalny is alive and has been located in a distant prison colony. His team says the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin’s despotism was moved without announcement to a prison called the Polar Wolf in the remote Arctic region of Yamalo-Nenets. This a frozen, isolated area…
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Opinion | The Fed Won’t Try to Boost Biden
[ad_1] The central bank has only once changed its policy to help elect a presidential candidate: Nixon in 1972. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | The Wisconsin Supreme Court Stages a Gerrymander Coup
[ad_1] Progressive state judges are on a partisan political roll. Fresh off the 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court’s banishment of Donald Trump from the ballot, a 4-3 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday overturned precedent and tossed the state’s legislative maps. The four progressive justices ordered the maps redrawn because they violate the state…
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Opinion | The Texas Immigration Law Gambit
[ad_1] Frustrated by the Biden Administration’s immigration failures, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this week signed a bill making it a state crime for migrants to cross the southern border illegally. The flood of migrants is a major state problem, but the only effective solution lies in Congress. The Texas law makes it a misdemeanor to…