CEOs Are Perfect Patsies for TikTok Politicians: Beth Kowitt

Last week former Starbucks Corp. CEO Howard Schultz made the trek to Washington DC to appear before Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ committee on labor. The week prior, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew got thoroughly grilled by the House on data privacy and national security. Expect that it will soon be finance industry bigwigs who get their turn on the Hill answering for the banking crisis.

Hauling executives before Congress has long been a grand Washington tradition, going back to the early 1900s — think Andrew Carnegie testifying on anti-trust issues or John D. Rockefeller Jr. on labor conditions. For executives, if done ...