he's founder and chief investment officer at heyman capital management.an, we begin with you and the setup for the state of the union. >> thanks, dom. we expect joe biden to come out swinging in tonight's speech, laying out proposals to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy. so he'll call for the first time to raise the corporate minimum tax to 21%. that will be up from the 15% level that he signed into law two years ago. and he'll be proposing to cut taxes for all employee salaries above $1 million, an expansion of the law that -- a couple of other highlights might sound more familiar. he wants to quadruple the stock buyback tax from 1% to 4%. he would like to close the tax loophole and propose to raise taxes on billionaires. all this comes as part of a speech that's focussed in no small part of the economy. he will talk about leveling the playing field and previewing a budget that the white house says would reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next ten years. and dom, while it's important to note that these are still just proposals, they do

meeting with the secretary general of the palestinian islamic jihad movement that the zionist regime's heymane collapsed in the first week after the al-aqsa storm operation, and the existence of this regime was evident. a 6-year-old child is the latest victim of the hunger war against the people of gaza. palestinian medical sources say that this boy died today due to malnutrition in kamal adwan hospital in northern gaza reached and thus the number of martyrs of the hunger war against the people of gaza increased to 30 people. at the same time, the officials of anorwa relief organization say that the zionists are still preventing the convoys of vital items from entering northern gaza. at the same time, the general manager of the organization. health has warned that gaza's health system is barely breathing and only a third of its hospitals are partially functional. however, despite the immediate ceasefire resolution in gaza , the zionists continue to besiege khanyounos and shefa hospitals. the gaza state media office announced the execution of 20 displaced people in shafa hospital, and the right

also with us, heyman jabbard. how significant is it? what could the penalties bow? >> justice department officials put this in the context of some of the most famous cases in department history, including the breakup of standard oil, of at&t, the case against microsoft. they really powerfully accused apple of being a greedy monopolist. they have receipts. they have emails from the company. a lot of this stuff has to do with app developers and things consumers don't see. there's some things that really impacted the consumer. for example, they say that apple software engineers made it harder to message between apple phones and android phones. they say at one point, apple's ceo was asked by a journalist about this who said, look, i have trouble sending my mom videos. tim cook responded, buy her an iphone. they say that was sort of emblematic of the company's attitude, which is making it harder to switch to android and other competitive platforms, making it harder to use apps that go across apple platforms to other platforms, and forcing people to buy iphones. what just

as the executive director of the society fellows and heyman ceer humanities here at columbia. it's my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evening's celebration of lorraine dustin's. new book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. this is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia global reports, which my colleague nicholas lemann will tell you more about in a minute. and the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. it's a series whichondistinguise society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. before i introduce the speakers and turn over the proceedings to nick, who'll be moderating the conference session, i'd like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, courtney knights, allison lindsay schramm, sylvia genetic, aaron fay, and our co-sponsors, the columbia journalism school, the columbia center for contemporary critical and its 131

as the executive director of the society fellows and heyman center for the

as the executive director of the society fellows and heyman center for the humanities here at columbia. it's my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evening's celebration of lorraine dustin's. new book rivals how science has learned