Author and Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler says President Joe Biden and progressive policy makers are ruining the U.S. economy with anticapitalist practices. Read More at The Wall Street Journal
The Inflation Tax on Capital
President Joe Biden is proposing to raise the top tax rate on capital gains from the current 20% to 39.6% in response to inflation. Read More at The Wall Street Journal
Trout Can Become ‘Addicted’ to Meth. Here’s Why That’s Scary.
A new study shows that traces of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs that enter waterways could cause addiction in fish leading to difficulties reproducing and finding food. Read More at National Geographic
Americans Are Flocking to Mexico. Should They Be?
Despite experts urging travel caution as coronavirus cases are on the rise again, especially in hot tourism spots like Los Cabos and Cancún, U.S. visitors still keep coming. Read More at The New York Times
Zakaria: We Learned From the Financial Crisis. We Can Learn From the Pandemic.
Fareed Zakaria says that enough time has passed to start looking back and drawing lessons from the pandemic, especially when comparing it with the last great jolt to the international system — the global financial crisis. Read More at The Washington Post
Ben Rhodes: US Can’t Say It Defends Democracy and Then Cozy up to Saudis, Egypt
Ian Bremmer interviews former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes about standing up to autocrats if the Unites States wants to continue promoting its democratic values. Read More at Gzero
Why Anti-Gun Americans Have Joined Wave of New Gun Owners
In both blue cities and red suburbs alike, purchases of firearms skyrocketed last year — to the highest level in half a century — with a striking portion of those sales coming from first-time gun buyers. Read more at The Washington Post
Israel Helping Train and Rebuild Azerbaijan
Former Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara was reported as being at the Iran-Azerbaijan border according to The Jewish Press. While the publication said the reason for his visit is unclear, he has expressed a desire to "help Azerbaijan rebuild this area." Kara advised Azerbaijan to build "kibbutzim" or "settlements" in the...
Rise of the Anti-“Woke” Democrat
A growing number of Democrats are becoming aware that their party is starting to come across to others as too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" and warn members that they risk helping their Republican counterparts. Read more at Axios
High-Level Saudi Visit Follows Multimillion-Dollar Foreign Influence Operation
Top Biden administration officials hosted Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khalid bin Salman amid additional revelations about Khashoggi’s murder and follows millions of dollars the Saudi government has spent in foreign influence and lobbying targeting the U.S. Read more at OpenSecrets