Economists are skeptical of a return to normalcy in 2021. Among their fears is the continued havoc wreaked by COVID-19 infections and changes within the economy that are leaving certain “sectors permanently weaker.” The now infamous Dr. Fauci said on CNBC, “so if we can get the overwhelming proportion of…

Over the past month, social media activists and politicians have increasingly used a number of phrases or slogans to indicate their support for the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank and Hamas. Political slogans are an easy way of boiling policy ideas into quick, easily repeatable chants during…

On February 10th, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) issued a press release calling for new transparency over the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) bulk surveillance. The Senators’ press release follows the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s release of documents revealing “a secret bulk collection program and problems…

Over the past two years, many parents across the country have had the opportunity to spend more time with their school aged children. This opportunity has caused a dramatic shift in the way parents view their relationship to their job. Permanent remote work had been just a small fraction of…

Google and its affiliated products account for roughly 90 percent of all Internet searches. “Google organizes information about web pages in a search index, which contains more information than ‘all of the world’s libraries put together,’” according to Medium. The Medium article details the extensive lengths to which Google calibrates…

Prior to the global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, many looked to the United States as a beacon of freedom and liberty. When viewed in comparison to the harsh realities of the world, this may seem rather true. After all, one’s perception of freedom and liberty is skewed by…

The Democrat-majority House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (“the House Select Committee”) yesterday issued a highly controversial request to telecommunications companies. Their request? “Preserve the phone records of a group of GOP members of Congress and former President Donald Trump, as well…

The promise of the Internet was decentralization and democratization. In the absence of centralization, search engines such as Google’s Search emerged to “enable users to retrieve webpages and information stored on the Internet.” The Congress’s Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets notes the following: “Google was the first company to…

According to POLITICO, a coalition of labor and community groups are pressuring the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell to implement six specific action items. These groups hope to influence President Biden’s decision to reappoint Chairman Powell. …