James Pethokoukis
James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.
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Is a recession coming for Trump? You wish.
opinion Democrats, don't court disaster
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Congress needs to get its nerd on
The Explainer Bring back the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment
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Why New York and Virginia were right to gamble on Amazon
opinion Even NYC could use 25,000 new jobs
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Why the Trump boomlet may soon fade
The Explainer A consumer splurge is masking big problems in the Republican tax cuts
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The sun sets on Sears
The Explainer No company is forever — not even America's "everything store"
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A $15 minimum wage is great for Amazon. It is not great for America.
opinion Please, Washington: Don't follow Jeff Bezos' lead
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Apple got to $1 trillion the right way
opinion Everyone should cheer Apple's valuation. Even socialists.
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Europe's idiotic war on Google
opinion This regulatory fusillade is motivated by little more than platform envy
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Beware the Trexit
opinion Trump's attempt to withdraw the U.S. from globalization is all risk and no reward
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Here comes another global financial crisis ...
opinion Between Italian instability and President Trump's trade war threats, things are not looking good
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How America can win its tech war with China
opinion Entrepreneurship, investment, immigration — America, you do you
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The left thinks Mark Zuckerberg escaped danger in Congress. The right sees it very differently.
opinion Facebook should take conservatives' bias claims more seriously. Its survival is at stake.
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Trump's dangerous economic gambles
opinion How the CEO president became bad for business
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Is the anti-Facebook hysteria really about data privacy?
opinion Americans sure don't act like they're very concerned about safeguarding it
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The foolish demonization of big tech
opinion Facebook messed up. That doesn't make Mark Zuckerberg the devil.
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The astonishingly weak antitrust case against Facebook, Google, and Amazon
opinion Where's the proof they're harming consumers?
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The great smartphone panic of 2018
opinion Are you reading this on your smartphone? Then get over it.
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Uncle Sam is not going to smash Silicon Valley
opinion Just consider what happened after the financial crisis
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Our fear of killer robots might doom us all
opinion At the very least, this technophobia seems destined to hamstring our economy
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Conservatives turn on Silicon Valley — and the free market
opinion Now the right wants to harshly regulate tech companies. Wait, what?
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America is on the verge of a tech panic. And Silicon Valley isn't helping.
opinion If those fabulously wealthy folks are gloomy about tomorrow, what hope do the rest of us mere mortals have?
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The great video game scare of 2017
opinion America's economy is messed up. It's not because of video games.
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Against a guaranteed jobs program
opinion Every one who wants a job should ideally have a job. But the government shouldn't "guarantee" it.
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John Oliver's net neutrality rants aren't helping
opinion It's not that simple
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