JOURNALISM
After the Pandemic, a Pile of IOUs
Economists see a free lunch in fiscal stimulus, but that depends on low post-pandemic interest rates.
Bitcoin Is Winning the Covid-19 Monetary Revolution
The virtual currency is scarce, sovereign and a great place for the rich to store their wealth.
How Biden and Xi Can Keep the New Cold War From Turning Hot
Let’s hope it doesn’t take another Cuban Missile Crisis to bring the U.S. and China to detente.
The ‘Good Censors’
The main problem with social media isn’t political bias or market share, it’s that Big Tech is still coddled by legal protections from the dawn of the internet era.
A Craving for Normalcy Spells the End of a Populist Presidency
There are nine reasons Trump may still win, but none seems likely.
California Burnin’ — a Warning Against One-Party Rule
Fires, blackouts, high taxes, poverty, scarce housing, urban squalor, lousy schools — it’s a wonder anybody stays.
‘Weimar America’? The Trump Show Is No Cabaret
Detractors have been equating the U.S. with 1920s Germany for 85 years, and they are still wrong.
Joe Biden Could End Up Being a Wartime President
Notwithstanding his pledges of uplift and healing, history suggests post-pandemic peace is rare, and Democratic wars are not.
TikTok Is Inane. China’s Imperial Ambition Is Not.
The U.S. won the Cold War by exporting its values, and China has a similar plan for Cold War II.