James Pethokoukis
@AEI DeWitt Wallace Fellow. @CNBC Contributor. @Jeopardy! champ. @TheWeek columnist. [email protected] columnist. @MedillSchool. @NorthwesternU. 🦅 🌎 🦄 🤖🚀
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To make the world richer, let people move
Alas, the politics of migration has never been more toxic, argues Robert Guest
James Pethokoukis
“Few migration-sceptics can cite concrete harm that a foreigner has done to them. But nationalists around the world constantly swap anecdotes, some of them true, that reinforce their fears.”
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Free Enterprise Is the Best Remedy for Online Bias Concerns
Senator Josh Hawley’s (R–MO) Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act (S. 1914) is intended to address claims of anti-conservative biasREF by Facebook, Google, and other Internet platforms. If enacted, however, the bill’s prescription for...
Impeachment hearings: Vindman saw it as his ‘duty’ to report Trump's July 25 call
Day three of impeachment hearings kicks off with Alexander Vindman, Jennifer Williams' testimony.
James Pethokoukis
Vindman directly addressed his father, who fled the former U.S.S.R. four decades ago with his family: “Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth.” politi.co/2QxmtX7 via @politico
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The Immoral Attack on Capitalism
They want to take your property for the benefit of ‘the common good,’ which will happen to coincide with their political interests. Hard pass.
James Pethokoukis
"Milton Friedman, who apparently has gone out of fashion among conservatives currently fascinated by the vacuous shiny object called nationalism ..."
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So is Tulsi Gabbard really a "Russian asset"? How would we know for sure?
Was Hillary Clinton speaking truth about Tulsi Gabbard, or just launching an unfounded McCarthyite smear?
James Pethokoukis
"If we don’t raise red flags where appropriate, we risk being played for suckers, as happened in the 2016 election. "
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Trump's 'Section 232' autos tariff authority runs out of time, experts say
The clock has run out on President Donald Trump's authority to impose "...
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
James Pethokoukis
More from the dark side of America First nationalism. Is there a bright side? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics
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Why voting with your feet is more effective than a ballot
Moving lets people choose the kind of society they live in
James Pethokoukis
“Liberal, democratic capitalist societies have many flaws, but also great virtues: peace, freedom, tolerance and a culture that fosters innovation. The simplest way to spread these virtues is to let more people in.”
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James Pethokoukis
“It is now clear that millions of Hong Kongers do not feel that ethnic solidarity overrides their political concerns about mainland China.”
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Suffixing Industrial Policy with “2.0” Doesn’t Make It Credible
When and to the extent that trade and markets are free, Americans benefit from innovation no matter where it occurs.
James Pethokoukis
“Liberalism is a society, a world, of bottom-up experimentation that affirms the legitimacy of individual human volition. Only a template of freedom rooted in a sense of unending discovery is fully consistent with human rights”
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How migration makes the world brainier
Hyperconnected migrants accelerate the spread of ideas
James Pethokoukis
“But the real gains are the dynamic ones,” says Caglar Ozden of the World Bank—the complex interplay of newcomers with natives and the outside world. “That is what created the US miracle [of the past two and a half centuries],”
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What can we conclude about the success or failure of the Trump tax cuts?
Caution is warranted on making any all-encompassing declarations about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Do we really know that the tax cut “failed,” over and done?
James Pethokoukis
My latest: “What can we conclude about the success or failure of the Trump tax cuts?” | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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James Pethokoukis
⚠️Warning: This will not make you angry. Frustrated, maybe.
"What can we conclude about the success or failure of the Trump tax cuts?
aei.org/economics/what… via @AEI
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The Trump administration is trying to reforge carmakers’ supply chains
So far to little effect
James Pethokoukis
“The president’s critics will complain that his meddling in car companies’ supply chains comes with costs, and that he is both bringing higher prices for consumers and sapping the competitiveness of America as an export base. All true.”
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Moore on Jerusalem, Eternalism, Anarchy and Herbie!
Below you can read a great interview with Moore conducted by Brazilian writer and editor Raphael Sassaki . The interview was finalized at...
Is Opposition to Immigration Primarily Economic or Cultural?
It's clear that there is a considerable hostility to immigration, both in the United States and across much of Europe. Is that opposition r...
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
Pressed by businesses, interest groups and governments, the internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and an army of contractors to shape what you see.
James Pethokoukis
“In other areas of the Journal analysis, Google’s results in organic search and news for a number of hot-button terms and politicians’ names showed prominent representation of both conservative and liberal news outlets.”
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The US needs to copy China’s tech strategy to remain the top economy in the world
China is investing resources in new technology across major industries and it could lead to them passing the US as the dominant economy in the world.