National Review [2], R Street Institute President Eli Lehrer suggests that the Biden administration “should take a careful look at its menthol-ban proposal and consider other measures that, instead, meet current smokers where they are.” Lehrer notes that the ACLU, which has recently abandoned its long-time justification for existence in order to embrace all kinds of dictatorial Democrat agenda items, has savaged Biden for the menthol ban [3].
Lehrer raises the same point many on the left have raised which is that making menthol cigarettes and Swisher Sweets illegal will mostly affect the black community and will therefore contribute to overpolicing in that community. The Eric Garner episode, in which the protagonist was killed by police as they wrestled with him in attempting to arrest him for selling “loosey,” untaxed cigarettes amid a New York City crackdown, was a perfect preview to what’s going to happen when Biden imposes one of the largest and most sweeping produc
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During most of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Silicon Valley could regard the legal threats Republicans hurled its way as a sideshow: unfocused, unserious, untenable.
But a campaign launched in a cauldron of conservative grievance over censorship allegations, complaints of “woke” corporate values and the power wielded by a few Bay Area billionaires has, in former President Trump’s absence, morphed into something far more worrisome to big business.
The GOP push to break up, or at least punish, Big Tech is now an unexpectedly disciplined movement that is causing corporate concern far beyond the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, as the party’s identity is increasingly focused around reining in the power of large companies.
EIG American Dynamism Series | The Case for Non-compete Reform
On April 29th, the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) hosted a webinar to discuss the Workforce Mobility Act [1], recently reintroduced bipartisan legislation from U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Todd Young (R-IN), that would limit the use of non-compete agreements that curtail worker mobility, stem wage growth, and stifle entrepreneurship and innovation.
Today, around 20 percent of American workers are covered by a non-compete agreement. Non-compete agreements have negative effects on all workers but are especially damaging for historically marginalized workers. When enforced, non-competes lower wages for female and nonwhite workers by twice as much as for white male workers.
History slates four 9/11 documentaries ahead of 20th anniversary On the 10th anniversary of the raid that found and captured Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, A+E Networks’ History is debuting a new documentary about the ordeal.
Co-produced . April 12, 2021
On the 10th anniversary of the raid that found and captured Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, A+E Networks’ History is debuting a new documentary about the ordeal.
Co-produced by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum,
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden is set to premiere early next month – May 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT – to mark a decade since the killing of bin Laden by U.S. forces during a raid on an al-Qaeda compound. Bin Laden was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center that killed almost 3,000 people and inju