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Opinion

Trump and Congress should confront China on genocide

Editorials and columns

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) joined together last week to sponsor a bipartisan bill that would require the secretary of state to determine whether the People's Republic of China is engaging in genocide against the people of Tibet. "Communist China is committing ...

Data center freak-out

Editorials and columns

Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We must stop it!" says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. ...

Ending gerrymandering

Editorials and columns

In the debate over redistricting, one truth is too often buried beneath legal jargon and partisan maneuvering: Gerrymandering is, at its core, about voter dilution. It is the quiet engineering of political outcomes, line by line, until communities that should speak with strength are instead ...

The Comey indictment and free speech

Editorials and columns

In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, ...

Why aren’t you location sharing?

Editorials and columns

A frustrating part of surviving the social landscape of Gen Z is that there are silent, digital cues to affirm one's loyalty to another. These cues are often not explicitly stated. To understand these cues one must first betray the social paradigm, suggesting to the tribe that you are either A) ...