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Congress is right to call for the strategic divestment of TikTok

by Mark Montgomery The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool that the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing are not happy about it. The House has voted to require ...

TikTok scapegoated for U.S. failure to regulate Big Tech

In a political stampede last Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would force the app TikTok to be divested from China-based owner ByteDance, or face banning. The Senate should have more sense and slow this down. If the concern is that TikTok might become rife with ...

America blew almost $2 trillion. Make it stop

by Kathryn Anne Edwards The U.S. federal budget seems out of control. Funding spats and debt-ceiling standoffs routinely threaten to force defaults and shutdowns. America’s once-unassailable credit rating keeps slipping. Has the government simply become too big to manage? No, but ...

Only Congress can tap brakes on AI

You could almost hear palms smacking onto foreheads all over the techier corners of the internet last week, after a Google artificial intelligence program began generating pictures of Black founding fathers, a female Pope and other notions that would exist only in the most fringe-progressive ...

Congress has an obligation to support spread of accurate news

by Kevin Frazier The Post Office Act of 1792 is the most important piece of legislation you’ve never heard of. This single act turned the postal network into a marketplace of ideas rather than a means for generating revenue. Today, our primary channels for the spread of ideas — ...