At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.
As allegations of intellectual property theft swirl, a deeper look reveals a tale of phony numbers and twisted data.
Plus: Taiwan heats up, Robert Moses and Rockaway Beach, CBDCs, and more...
Despite both presidential candidates touting protectionist trade policy, tariffs do little to address the underlying factors that make it difficult for U.S. manufacturers to compete in the global marketplace.
Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
Plus: Boobs in the portal, Michelin-starred tacos, Argentine labor laws, Gavin Newsom's replacement, and more...
Federal officials say EcoHealth Alliance failed to properly report on its gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and to monitor safety conditions there.
They're fleeing tyranny and seeking opportunity, not coming to "build a little army."
Bad for consumers, bad for American industry, bad for his administration's own environmental goals, and bad for an increasingly irrational executive branch.
Plus, an AI-generated recipe for garlic lovers' shrimp scampi
The economics of tariffs have not changed in the past eight years. Marco Rubio has.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
Congress is "silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate," the company argues.
May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.
Electric vehicles are not a bad thing, especially in heavily polluted China. But the market should drive demand, not central planners.
Plus: Masking protesters, how Google Search got so bad, Columbia's anti-apartheid protests of the '80s, and more...
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
Plus: Homework liberation in Poland, Orthodox rabbi tells students to flee Columbia, toddler anarchy, and more...
Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
If higher tariffs were the solution to anything, wouldn't there be evidence of that by now?
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
Increased spending does not automatically equate to higher quality—something that is often lost in this debate.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
From struggle sessions to cancel culture, the story depicts the terrors of surveillance authoritarianism.
Plus: Mnuchin's TikTok folly, Trump's April Fools' joke, Andy Warhol's muse, and more...
Plus: Illegal homes in California, Erdogan's party does poorly in local elections, and more...
Chinese camera drones are the most popular worldwide. American drone manufacturers argue that's a national security threat.
Plus: DEI at the DOE, NYC subway culture, the pandemic's effect on student behavior, and more...
Plus: Kamala Harris' abortion clinic visit, Karl Marx's hypocrisy, CDC data struggles, and more...
Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
Plus: TikTok ban, AOC primary challenger, DEI revisionism, and more...
Plus: Illegal immigrants at Whole Foods, AI predicting homelessness, Chinese espionage, and more...
A new bill would ban TikTok and give the president power to declare other social media apps off limits.
One in five national governments tried to intimidate or kill exiles in recent years.
Plus: Brooklyn communists, Shenzhen Costco, Chernobyl mythbusting, and more...
It's just one reason the program should likely be terminated altogether.
Hackers have unmasked some of the tactics Beijing and Tehran use to silence their opponents.
It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.
Yang Hengjun's punishment will be commuted to life in prison if he passes a probationary period. But the espionage accusations against him are highly spurious.
Plus: A listener asks if it should become the norm for all news outlets to require journalists to disclose their voting records.
Health reporter Emily Kopp and biologist Alex Washburne discuss new documents that detail plans to manipulate bat-borne coronaviruses in Wuhan on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
The doctor's claims that he was open to either explanation is flatly contradicted by his literal words.
Tariffs of 25 percent introduced under Donald Trump have been allowed to remain in place, and Biden may tack on even more to shield American firms from competition.
The errors are so glaring that it's hard not to suspect an underlying agenda at work here.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
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