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View More NewsThe US Senate is expected to vote soon on a comprehensive bill to establish market structure rules for digital assets, backed by Republican lawmakers, while some Democrats continue to push for ethics provisions.In a Tuesday press conference, Senators Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, and Chris Van Hollen spoke alongside representatives for Americans for Financial Reform and Indivisible and Hollywood actor Ben McKenzie in opposition to the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. The lawmakers said that the bill did not address what they called “[Donald] Trump’s crypto corruption,” referring to the US President’s ties to the industry through his memecoin, his…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Take a stand for historical accuracy this week. Let’s talk about soccer this week and how a few subtle rule changes made Americans fall in love with the game and obsess over the World Cup. We’ll close with some thoughts on the Home Run Derby and how MLB is missing out on its full potential. But first, we’re going to do another one of our “Let’s fix [insert sport here]” surveys, this time focusing on soccer. Feel free to weigh in with any ideas you have for fixing the sport, or…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept A dozen states have filed an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount/CBS’ $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers. The states argue…
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