Headlines tell us that something new is stirring in America’s workplaces, as we realize that the dreaded coronavirus, the power of giant corporations, and the fate of the labor force are all inextricably entwined.
Democrats faced a grim problem with an unhealthy nominee in the 1944 election, and they developed an effective workaround.
The coronavirus is reminding us that old wisdom retains its value in new times.
Sen. Tom Cotton is summoning America’s ingenuity from World War II to address today’s war with coronavirus.
President Trump declared a “Whole of America approach” to fighting the coronavirus war. President Roosevelt used that same strategy to lead the U.S. to victory in World War Two.
Employers should verify the contagious health status of employees to protect their workforce and the country from pandemics like coronavirus.
As America confronts the coronavirus (COVID-19), we might ask: Who’s more valuable: first responders or private-equity managers? Which do we need more of right now: doctors and nurses or stock traders and their algorithms? Which is more essential: hospitals or hedge funds?
When one sees the words “Joe Biden” in media commentary, one often sees, too, the word “restoration.” As in, Biden promises—or threatens, depending on one’s point of view—to restore the days of Barack Obama.
Michael Lind’s new book, “The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite” exposes the politicians, corporate executives, bureaucrats, journalists, propagandists, “public interest” lawyers, and professors who run interference for the rich.
The deal is far from done, but it appears that the U.S. is on the edge of reaching an honorable deal to get out of Afghanistan.
Aggressive budget cuts, even if put forth only in theory to please zealous scholars-in-cubicles, seem to be self-defeating because they antagonize Americans who don’t know that the cuts are only theoretical.
What will happen next in the U.K. on 5G is unclear. All we know for sure is that the sovereignty of the U.K. includes the sovereign right to make a mistake.
Socialist candidate Bernie Sanders might be getting an ironic kind of help from billionaire candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Would President Trump’s idea of expanding the NATO alliance to include the Middle East lead to peace and fewer U.S. troops in the region?
The Republican president, running for re-election, orders airstrikes against a foreign foe. Back home, street protests erupt, and TV pundits and newspaper editorialists rage; there are even new calls for impeachment.
We are seeing the right of each state to make its own decisions—for better or for worse, as the case might be—as enshrined in our founding document, the U.S. Constitution.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s idea of “common-good capitalism” makes obvious good sense, and yet, of course, not everyone agrees. Still, Rubio has started a valuable debate, and if he prevails, the Republican Party—and the United States—will be stronger.
Jeff Sessions, currently running to reclaim his U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, sent out an interesting and important tweet on December 21. It featured a photo of the top House Democrats who spearheaded the impeachment of President Trump; in the picture were Reps. Nancy Pelosi of California, Jerry Nadler of New York, Maxine Waters of California, Elliot Engel of New York, Adam Schiff of California, and Carolyn Maloney of New York. Underneath the photo were the words, “This is why we have the Electoral College.”
While everyone is focused on impeachment, there’s another issue—an older issue, which hasn’t gone away—that’s nagging the voters. Republicans remain deeply vulnerable on the healthcare issue.
After something big happens, the temptation is to say, in retrospect, “Oh yeah, it was obvious. We all knew that would happen.” As they say, everyone has 20/20 hindsight.
Two Republican Senators, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Josh Hawley of Missouri, have a great idea: Move most of the federal government out of Washington, DC.
There will not be an American Dream to achieve if our nation as a whole doesn’t increase its birth rate. The United States needs a robust pro-family policy. President Trump and his daughter Ivanka have been pointing the way by endorsing paid family leave.
The Democrat presidential hopefuls want you to believe that they have a plan for raising taxes on the rich. And maybe, if one of them wins next year, they will, in fact, nick the rich a little—but don’t count on it.
If Democrats like Sanders and Warren can demonstrate that they’re truly sincere in helping the working class and not just using workers for props—well, who knows what could happen in 2020.
The headline in The New York Times is nothing if not declarative: “The Republican Party Is Doomed.” And the first lines of the opinion piece read, “The 2020 election will be transformative like few in our history. It will end with the death of the Republican Party as we know it.”
The left has a hot new cause: getting rid of the Electoral College. And if the left succeeds in doing away with that venerable institution, its next target, the U.S. Senate, will fall like a dried apple.
Like any holiday, Labor Day has always been a political football. Politicians and parties have fought over its meaning—past, present, and future. And these days, as technology and globalism are transforming work, it’s all the more important to grasp the importance of labor and the continuing need to protect its place in society.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal had a scoop of sorts; the headline read, “President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland: In conversations with aides, the president has — with varying degrees of seriousness — floated the idea of the U.S. buying the autonomous Danish territory.”
CNN host Chris Cuomo’s recent “Fredo” confrontation revealed the cultural prominence of ‘The Godfather’ films, which are now so central to our thinking that they can even be said to occupy the psychic space once held by ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’.
In April, we learned that an Israeli spacecraft, an unmanned 1290-lb lunar lander, had hard-crashed, not soft-landed, on the moon. These things happen; it’s not easy, after all, to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. In fact, only three countries—the U.S., Russia, and China—have managed that feat.
Democrats would benefit from recalling Republicans’ historic midterm defeat in 1998, which clearly signaled voters were not interested in impeachment.
As we enter into what seems to be Cold War Two with China, what lessons about internal security can we learn from Cold War One?
A strong argument in favor of the space program is the value of its “spinoffs.” Here we explore ten spinoffs, or discoveries and improvements, that came as a consequence of NASA’s work.
The space program was not just about the guts and grit of astronauts with “the right stuff,” nor about the brilliance of the engineers who designed the spacecraft. It was also about the financial and organizational ability of government leaders, corporate executives, and white- and blue-collar workers—all teaming up to get the job done.
Joe Biden now claims that he voted for the Iraq War in 2002 because President Bush told him “he was using it for the purpose of getting inspectors in.”
The national politician is blasted for “enabling racism,” for “singling out of newly elected women of color,” and for causing “harm to immigrant families.” At a progressive convention in Philadelphia, the mere mention of the name provokes a chorus of boos, as critics decry attempts to “shame and silence the progressive women of color.”
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen warns his fellow Democrats to “stop embracing losing issues” like reparations and Medicare for All or else Trump will win.
The aspirational nature of the entire American Experiment is made plain in the words in the Constitution’s Preamble: “a more perfect union.” We’re always striving to make a more perfect union, which is why it is important to understand the the economic theory that did the most to expand prosperity and greatness. It was called the American System.
The Democratic Party is moving way to the left, and Barack Obama and the Clintons are regarded as too conservative for the party’s tastes.
The Democratic group American Bridge hopes to swing some of Trump’s rural voters in 2020 using health care as a wedge issue.
