[aggregation-styles] MIT Technology Review The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything There was a time when the world’s two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology. Today the flashpoint is between the US and China, and it involves the wireless technology that promises to connect your...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is an Economic Illiterate — and That’s a Danger to America
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is an Economic Illiterate — and That’s a Danger to America The left complains that conservatives are “obsessing” over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Well, there is a reason for that: Ocasio-Cortez is driving the agenda of today’s Democratic Party — and her economic illiteracy is dangerous....
Bold Plan? Replace the Border Wall with an Energy–Water Corridor
[aggregation-styles] Scientific American A Year After the Massacre of 14 High-School Students, What Has Changed? Here’s an idea: Instead of an endless, inert wall along the U.S.–Mexico border, line the boundary with 2,000 miles of natural gas, solar and wind power plants. Use some of the energy to desalinate water...
California High-Speed Rail and the American Infrastructure Tragedy, Explained
[aggregation-styles] Vox California High-Speed Rail and the American Infrastructure Tragedy, Explained Congressional progressives’ push for a Green New Deal briefly put the question of a national high-speed passenger rail initiative back into the discourse. Then this week, we saw reality bite back sharply: Newly inaugurated California Gov. Gavin Newsom all...
The Democrats Have an Israel Problem — and It’s Not Ilhan Omar
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post The Democrats Have an Israel Problem — and It’s Not Ilhan Omar The Democratic Party has problems with Israel. But Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), the new members of Congress who have attracted attention with toxic tweets and support for boycott, are not...
A Year After the Massacre of 14 High-School Students, What Has Changed?
[aggregation-styles] The Economist A Year After the Massacre of 14 High-School Students, What Has Changed? A debate about the power in Washington of the pro-Israel lobby is underway, after Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., responded sharply to reports that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was targeting both Omar and fellow Muslim Rep....
What Would Happen if Facebook Were Turned Off?
[aggregation-styles] The Economist What Would Happen if Facebook Were Turned Off? There has never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook. Some 2.3bn people, 30% of the world’s population, engage with the network each month. Economists reckon it may yield trillions of dollars’ worth of value for its users....
The Sick Double Standard In The Ilhan Omar Controversy
[aggregation-styles] Forward The Sick Double Standard In The Ilhan Omar Controversy The following two things are true. First, Representative Ilhan Omar was wrong to tweet that the American government’s support of Israel is “all about the Benjamins.” Secondly, she’s being judged by a grotesque double standard. Her fiercest critics in...
Saudi Arabia Is Heinously Torturing Female Activists. It Must Face Consequences.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Saudi Arabia Is Heinously Torturing Female Activists. It Must Face Consequences. It has gradually become clear that one of the most heinous recent cases of torture of political prisoners occurred last year in Saudi Arabia — and may still be ongoing. The victims are women who...
Iran Needs a New Revolution
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Opinion Iran Needs a New Revolution Bloomberg Opinion is marking the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution with a collection of columns from around the world. Four decades ago, in the months leading up to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made many promises....
