How to Save a Billion Hours
The average American spends 6 hours, 58 minutes a day on the internet. That adds up to 536.55 billion hours a year for all of us. We could save billions of hours by addressing inefficiencies introduced mostly by lawyers and politicians: • Accepting and rejecting cookies. Most people don’t even know what cookies are when […]
Sen. Dan Sullivan on How to Deter a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
For the past three months I’ve been pressing my colleagues to significantly strengthen the weapons systems provided to Taiwan so it can prevail in a conflict in the Taiwan Strait (“How Joe Biden Can Deter China,” Review & Outlook, Nov. 18). The national security supplemental request that the White House sent to Congress in October […]
This is how to make homelessness policy work
Late last month, the world watched something extraordinary: San Francisco cleaned up its homeless mess, practically overnight. Unfortunately for residents of that city, it wasn’t for them. The quick cleanup was a courtesy to the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and 20,000 other visitors to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. And it was only a temporary […]
How to Botch an Assassination Investigation
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, shocked the nation. It brought justifiable scrutiny on the law enforcement agencies that should have prevented it as well as those that investigated it. Historians, journalists and filmmakers continue to speculate on what happened. Sixty years later, government records are still being declassified and […]