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Has there ever been a more expressively American app than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, energetic exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers? And yet in April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would force the Chinese owners of TikTok, the video-app juggernaut, to either sell to a non-Chinese owner or face a ban. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Congress passed the bill, which gives the company nine months to strike a

Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.

Walter Isaacson was editor of Time magazine and CNN before writing a series of biographies of geniuses like Steve Jobs. His latest is of Elon Musk and his adventures, from the Starlink and the Ukraine War to Grimes, Amber Heard, and Twitter.

AN SNJ web comment replying to the July 2 letter entitled ‘Why it is time to switch off the Light newspaper in Stroud’ accurately described The…

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In democratic societies, there is a tendency to pillory the government for anything short of super-efficiency in crisis management. Since the mainstream media is dominated by those whose inclinations are visibly Left-liberal and, increasingly, woke, the quantum of disquiet tends to be amplified in the case of governments with different orientations.

Over the past 50 days, India has been relentlessly hauled over the coals. Its national image and the reputation of its government has been battered. The country has even been taunted as a ‘failed state’...

Indicate at least his supporters dont agree. the story on friday, john boehner giving up the speakership. hes obviously tired of fighting the battles with the more hard-line part of his own caucus, and the press heart reporting for years that boehner cannot control the republicans. what do you make of this? >> i think its another sign of the loss of power of establishment republicans. youve got trump and carson appeared carly rising to the top, and youre seeing it play out in congress, too. th...

Or an actual third party may be borne out of this schism. >> everything is more democratized and republicans should come to terms with that. they still want to control things from the top-down and if they do that, there absolutely would be a split. my prediction would be we take over the republican party and they go the way of the whigs. joig us now is larry klayman of freedom watch and james peterson, associate professor at lehigh university and msnbc contributor. welcome to you both. mr. klaym...

>> a very predictable outcome. this whole battle in some respects seems to have been waged by jim demint to draw a line in the sand right down the middle of the republican party. and have people who are with him and people who are with karl rove. and so, you know, mcconnell is an old rove hand, old establishment republican, a guy who gets a kentucky kickback in this bill to reopen the government, costing, you know, $2 billion for taxpayers, but getting kentucky a nice bit of pork. and then the d...