Mytheos Holt

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Mytheos Holt
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How Much Failure Can Congress Overlook?
By Mytheos Holt
Talk to any D.C. denizen about the actual close-up view of the federal government they get, and inevitably something like ...
June 29, 2020
Washington Has a Dangerous Obsession With Secret Courts
By Mytheos Holt
Article One, Section 9, clause 2 of the United States Constitution states, “the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall ...
January 21, 2020
Patent Trolls Are Not Useful
By Mytheos Holt
This past week, the New Hampshire Supreme Court struck a welcome blow for free speech, and against frivolous lawsuits.That opinion ...
September 07, 2019
From Saving American Blood to Saving American Treasure
By Mytheos Holt
President Trump’s recent decision to avoid entering into a likely disastrous military engagement with Iran marks a welcome return to ...
July 19, 2019
Why Are We Buying Technology From People We’re Suing?
By Mytheos Holt
Here’s a simple question: Suppose you hire a company to perform a service for you, because a trusted friend recommended ...
July 08, 2019
America First or Huawei First?
By Mytheos Holt
Back during the actual Cold War, President Ronald Reagan famously promoted the idea of building what was called the Strategic ...
June 14, 2019
Someone Please Remind the Defense Department Who is President
By Mytheos Holt
President Trump’s disruptive style of politics was never going to be an easy sell in Washington. In a city where ...
June 01, 2019
Send the Patent Trolls Back Under their Bridge
By Mytheos Holt
There is an old, dark joke that runs as follows: a doctor, an engineer, and a lawyer are debating whose ...
March 29, 2019
Is Congress Tired of Big Pharma Winning?
By Mytheos Holt
When running for President in 2016, President Trump famously declared that Americans would be “tired of winning.” How this would ...
February 26, 2019
America Does Not Need More Opioids
By Mytheos Holt
No matter how you slice it, the opioid epidemic is poison. Literally, in the wrong hands, the drugs themselves are ...
January 26, 2019
2019 Is The Year Pharma Pays
By Mytheos Holt
If any lobby in Washington can be said to lead a charmed life, it is the pharmaceutical industry. Having co-opted ...
December 15, 2018
Airbnb Has Become the Farrakhan of Tech Companies
By Mytheos Holt
Silicon Valley was radicalized by the election of Donald Trump. It may be a matter of academic interest down the ...
November 27, 2018
Democrats May Have Untied Trump’s Hands on Pharma
By Mytheos Holt
The conventional wisdom coming out of the 2018 midterm elections is that President Trump is likely to be aggressively “checked” ...
November 15, 2018
Fix NAFTA for Struggling Americans, Not Special Interests
By Mytheos Holt
The Trump administration is on the verge of a genuine diplomatic coup with its negotiation of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), ...
October 30, 2018
The Fall of Elon Musk
By Mytheos Holt
Just over eight months ago, the billionaire Elon Musk executed one of the more daring PR stunts in recent memory: ...
October 26, 2018
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