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Print this article I first became a Wall Street correspondent 34 years ago, after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. An element in that day’s panic was an undertow of concern about ballooning public spending. A debt clock loomed over Times Square, alarming passersby, its flickering red line of figures looking like what it was, a danger signal. I recall people’s eyes standing on stalks at the “telephone number” string of digits showing what we collectively owed. Public debt back then had reached $3 trillion. Today, it’s $28 trillion, seven times as much. Yet although our fiscal condition ...

America's lost voice Print this article In a talk before he was fired, Michael Pack expressed the hope that the new managers he had brought into the five networks would run them in a more objective and balanced way than in the past. By the time we talked after the inauguration, they had all been fired by Joe Biden, too. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner) Michael Pack has the distinction of being the very first person fired by the Biden administration. On Inauguration Day, the new president fired Pack before taking action on the pandemic, the economy, or immigration...

Last year, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “offline” world suddenly became a lot more online. All around the world, people have struggled to adapt. Worst off are those who can’t take internet access for granted. The Federal Communications Commission will spend many resources on the domestic side of this challenge, further investing in internet connectivity reach, quality, and affordability. But the international side, known as “internet freedom,” is a harder question. Internet freedom may generate fewer headlines than a decade ago, when it was a signature issue of the...

Opinion: Biden's facing a diplomacy deficit going back decades CNN 2/1/2021 © Scott Olson/Getty Images North America/Getty Images One of President Joe Biden's first acts in office was to request the resignation of Michael Pack as head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which manages all US government broadcasting, including such venerable services as the Voice of America, Radio Marti, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. These networks have a nearly 80-year record of providing credible news and information, and by extension inspiration, to hundreds of millions of listeners and vie...

English By Jessica Jerreat Share on Facebook The new acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media this week approved several J-1 visa applications for foreign journalists working for Voice of America, one of the networks it oversees. The applications are the first to be approved by the agency since June last year.   USAGM leader Kelu Chao, whom the Biden administration appointed in an acting capacity last Wednesday, approved the renewal applications for journalists in several VOA language services in the Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Euras...