From Burlington to Beijing

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(Scott Johnson)

In a Bernie Sanders flashback, Brooke Singman reported for Fox News in 2020: “Sanders once defended Mao-era China by claiming it had democracy “on the local level,” as he argued the U.S. should provide aid to the country while cutting off other non-democratic nations.” That was Sanders in 1971.

This is Sanders in 2026. Jack Butler writes here in the Wall Street Journal Free Expression newsletter this morning and here at the Free Expression Susbtack site (all but one link omitted):

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is worried about artificial intelligence. He wrote last month in the Journal—we publish a variety of viewpoints—that AI could “displace tens of millions of workers,” “threatens our privacy” and is “reshaping how we as human beings relate to one another.”

Mr. Sanders’s economi...

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