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Free Speech Applies to Social Media Too

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech today defending his decision not to police political ads: “People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the other power structures of society,” Mr. Zuckerberg, 35, said. He…

Donald Trump Just Won the Conflict-of-Interest Olympics

Kyodo via AP Images The United States will host the next G7 summit of world leaders at Donald Trump’s struggling Doral golf resort outside of Miami—a move that essentially forces foreign governments to line the president’s pockets. The decision poses perhaps the largest conflict of interest yet for a leader whose presidency is riddled with…