Members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma are advocating to have a delegate from the tribe seated in Congress in this legislative session. They point to the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, which provided members of the Cherokee Nation with $5 million and land in Oklahoma in exchange for several million acres of their ancestral homeland east of the Mississippi River. That treaty also included a right to have a delegate from the tribe in the U.S. House of Representatives, a right that so far has never been exercised. In the fall of 2022, the U.S. House Committee on Rules…

Some members of Congress are advocating for legislation that would ban the popular social media platform TikTok in the U.S. Those in favor of the ban argue that the social media site is dangerous to American security given that the app is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which, many argue, could be controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Continued use of the app, they say, could put Americans’ data at risk. In the omnibus spending bill that passed in December, Congress included language banning TikTok’s use on government-issued phones and devices, following the lead of several states that enacted…