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China Concerns Are No Reason to Maintain the Jones Act Status Quo Chinese Expansionism

China Concerns Are No Reason to Maintain the Jones Act Status Quo

As scrutiny of the Jones Act intensifies, defenders of the 100‐​year‐​old law have come up with ever more imaginative justifications for keeping it in place. One argument currently en vogue is casting the Jones Act as a bulwark against Chinese expansionism. Such framing is not difficult to understand given the poisoned…
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April 22, 2020
Bennett says opening cemeteries on Memorial Day would have been a ‘virus bomb’ Jerusalem Controversy

Bennett says opening cemeteries on Memorial Day would have been a ‘virus bomb’

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday defended the government’s plan to shutter the country’s military cemeteries for next week’s Memorial Day out of concerns that people would visit them en masse and potentially spread the coronavirus. “This was a very, very difficult decision, but it was necessary as every year…
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April 22, 2020
Two Top NY Museums Offer Special Virtual Activities To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day Water Pollution

Two Top NY Museums Offer Special Virtual Activities To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—founded in 1970 to demonstrate against the environmental and health impacts of 150 years of industrial development across the United States—two of New York’s oldest museums are offering a wide variety of virtual programs for families and kids. In this April 21, 2020…
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April 22, 2020