Tag: Regulations

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Push for cyber privacy

Charlie Mitchell · December 28, 2018 5:01 am

A group samples a flight of beers at the Maine Brewing Company in Freeport, Maine.

85 years ago, lawmakers gave beer its second constitutional amendment

Craig Purser · December 23, 2018 5:00 am

Google's new self-driving prototype car is presented during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP photo)

Departing Congress leaves self-driving cars without direction

Joe Williams · December 20, 2018 2:24 pm

Lexi Sturdy, election war room lead, points to her monitor during a demonstration in the war room, where Facebook monitors election related content on the platform, in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 17, 2018.

Facebook: Let the freeloading user beware

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2018 5:00 am

Republicans and their allies plan to pressure Obama administration officials into dropping a panel's recommendations that new dietary guidelines call for less meat consumption. (iStock)

A meat tax is a rotten, regressive idea

Will Coggin · December 19, 2018 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

People who want to ban dollar stores implicitly admit they’re popular

Tim Worstall · December 18, 2018 12:00 am

A man breathes vape from an e-cigarette at a vape shop in London, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018.

Teen vaping is soaring as the Trump administration tries to crack down

Kimberly Leonard · December 17, 2018 5:01 am

Farmer Tim Novotny, of Wahoo, shreds male corn plants in a field of seed corn, in Wahoo, Neb.

Agricultural industry presses Trump to open up EU trade

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 7:38 pm

Facebook’s photo-exposing bug may heighten congressional scrutiny

James Langford · December 14, 2018 6:22 pm

A woman passes a "We're Hiring!" sign while entering a clothing store in the Downtown Crossing of Boston.

Beltway Confidential

How Congress can jump-start local business growth

Quin Hillyer · December 13, 2018 7:23 pm

The sign for the National Labor Relations Board seen on the building that houses their headquarters in downtown Washington.

Obama-era labor rule still threatens the economy

Ben Gitis · December 13, 2018 5:00 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Republicans like Jim Inhofe will help Elizabeth Warren become president

Philip Wegmann · December 13, 2018 3:11 am