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EDITORIALS

Bully Boy Veering into comeuppance: A Whole New Dimension to Andrew Cuomo's Disgrace

Pushing Back Silicon Valley: A Conservative Technology-Policy Agenda Should Begin with the Journalism Preservation and Competition Act

Labor pains: PRO Act: Democrats' Labor Union Giveaway Bill An Anti-Worker Nightmare

Suicide of the west: Democrats' Voting Rights "For the People" HR 1 Bill Is a Scandal

Borders on insanity: The Biden Crisis that Dare Not Speak Its Name

What's the antidote for this poison: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act: Democrat Police-Reform Bill Would Not Advance Justice

ARTICLES

Manyin Li: China's New World Order Revealed in Translated Speeches

Ralph Norman and Joe Wilson: China's Confucius Institutes Threaten American Educational Institutions and National Security

Kevin Williamson: China Present Ideological Challenge to American-Led Global Order

Andrew A. Michta: Globalist Empire and the 'Liberal World Order'

Andrew C. McCarthy: Cuomo's Water Gets Hotter

Ingrid Jacques: Governor Whitmer Is the Andrew Cuomo of the Midwest

Andrew Roberts: Winston Churchill’s Woke Critics Engage in Falsehoods

Alexandra DeSanctis: Amazon and Ryan Anderson: Company Says It Won't Sell Books Framing Transgenderism as 'Mental Illness'

Kyle Smith: Dr. Seuss & Jake Tapper: Left’s Cancel Culture Slippery Slope

David Harsanyi: Biden Prepares to Strip College Students of Due-Process Rights

Devon Westhill: When Academic Achievement Means 'Acting White'

Dan McLaughlin: Clarence Thomas Delivers Decisive Win for Religious Free Speech

Rich Lowry: H.R. 1 Is a Partisan Disgrace

Kaj Relwof: The Left Launches a Two-Pronged Assault on American Democracy

Isaac Shorr: Civil Asset-Forfeiture Reform: Congress Must Act Now

Brian T. Allen: The Frick Collection and Modernism — Perfect Together

CAPITAL MATTERS

Robert P. O'Quinn finds an absolute disconnect: COVID Relief Bill Wastes More Than a Trillion Dollars

Wayne Crews sees through the lack of transparency: Tyrannosaurus Regs and Regulatory Dark Matter: Biden's Accountability Deficit on Regulation

Donald Devine thinks they're gaming the market: Managing the Economy: More Than the Federal Reserve Can Do

Steve Hanke and Christopher Arena want to turn back the clock: Daylight Saving Time: Unpopular Standard Should Be Ended

LIGHTS. CAMERA. REVIEW!

Armond White sees a duds' dud: Khaite FW21 — Sean Baker's Fashion Week Faux Pas

More Armond: Coming 2 America: Eddie Murphy Sequel a Comic Triumph

Kyle Smith not raving for Raya: Disney's Droopy Dragon Tale Puts Inclusivity above Story

More Kyle, who wades into Oliver's memoir: Oliver Stone's Cinema of Excess

Even More Kyle, and more Oliver, and more confliction: Filmmaker Oliver Stone’s Career Shows Fierce Commitment and Craziness

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Editorials

1. The case against Andrew Cuomo, governor and tomcat: From the editorial:

Needless to say, if the rules Democrats applied to Brett Kavanaugh were still operative — a mere accusation, if even vaguely plausible, and sometimes not even that, is enough to sink someone — Cuomo would be gone yesterday. His accusers, without any apparent coordination, several of them his own former aides rather than political enemies, are describing a consistent pattern of behavior that doesn't require any wild leaps of faith to believe. What's more, in the case of Anna Ruch, we have an actual photo of the behavior — and Ruch's facial expression makes clear that she is not welcoming Cuomo's hands on each side of her face.

Andrew Cuomo is an impulsive, temperamental, sometimes-raging, often-bullying egomaniac prone to spectacular failures of self-awareness, and it's notable that no one who knows the governor is exclaiming, "Talking to female underlings about their sex lives and pressuring them for a relationship? That just doesn't sound like the Andrew Cuomo I know!"

Some of Cuomo's denials have been carefully couched, or he's claimed that his attempts at friendly banter or, incredibly enough, mentorship have been misunderstood.

By his own standards, too, he should also be gone yesterday — he was eager to get in front of the "me too" parade when it was politically convenient, and he even changed New York's law to make the standard for harassment lower in a way that might come back to bite him now.

2. We argue that proper response to Big Tech's disruption of media should be the Journalism Preservation and Competition Act. From the editorial:

It's no secret that conservatives have been divided over what to do about this situation. Some want to tighten regulation of tech companies or even to break up the biggest players. Others believe that the cure of government intervention would be worse than the ills we have now. While that debate continues, though, conservatives should consider a bipartisan proposal to foster a healthy market for news through a bit of deregulation.

The bill is called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. Its sponsors include House antitrust subcommittee chairman David Cicilline (D., R.I.) and his Republican counterpart Ken Buck (Colo.). In the Senate, it is sponsored by John Kennedy (R., La.) and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). It is one of the rare pieces of legislation that both Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) support.

It would allow news publishers to band together to negotiate with Google and Facebook over compensation for the use of news content. The publishers would have a limited exemption from antitrust laws for this purpose. The federal government, note, would not be providing news outlets with taxpayer money or requiring the tech companies to pay them specified terms. It would simply be getting out of the way while they reached a deal on a more level field. Given that the main purpose of antitrust law is to help consumers by promoting competition, it is ... READ MORE