Universal basic income is the wrong response to AI

January 29, 2025

Universal basic income is the wrong response to AI

The brave new world of artificial intelligence is at our doorstep. The technology promises to revolutionize the workplace. However, some fear that AI will create mass unemployment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of the Silicon Valley elite argues that the United States should implement a program of universal basic income to address the problem of unemployment. Populists from the Left […]

JD Vance’s America First view on immigration

Vice President JD Vance participated in his first sit-down interview since taking office, appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. Vance began by sparring with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on issues such as President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees, grocery prices, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The highlight of the interview, however, occurred when the topic […]

Republicans should vote down Trump’s labor nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated a few questionable, lifetime Democrats to the Cabinet. Among his worst picks is a former one-time Republican representative who wants to force workers into labor unions. Trump nominated former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as secretary of labor after she lost her first reelection campaign last year. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has […]

Biden’s ‘adults’ left behind a foreign policy mess

One of the main messages of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign was that he would put “adults” back in charge of foreign policy. Four years later, Donald Trump has returned to the White House and must clean up the mess these supposed “adults” left behind. Trump and his foreign policy team have their work cut out for them […]

Deportation opposition confuses the government with the individual

Critics of President Donald Trump’s deportation plans are proving manifold despite the Democratic Party’s brief switch to tough-on-immigration rhetoric during the campaign season. Every opposing argument now centers on some humanitarian concern, and as a result, humanity is lost in the mix. Complaints focus on a few aspects of Trump’s immigration policy: arrests, asylum, and […]

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An activist’s defense of the Jan. 6 pardons

In my new column on the Jan. 6 riots, I argue that they were, in fact, violent riots and that President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon amounted to excusing extreme violence. I reached out to Matt Braynard, who has been an activist for years on behalf of the Jan. 6 arrestees. I granted that some of […]

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