Joseph Lawler

I’m excited to be back from vacation, and I’d like to thank Kevin Glass for his excellent blogging over the…

Last night’s debate featured perhaps the most vitriolic criticisms of Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care plan yet. Yet it’s becoming…

Avik Roy explains that repealing Obamacare via the reconciliation process wouldn’t be difficult for a Republican president with Republican majorities in…

The BLS will release the monthly jobs report at 8:30. The 1985 Bears Super Bowl champions will visit the White…

From the BLS employment report: the economy added 103,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate held steady at 9.1…

What will be talked about today, other than Steve Jobs passing away and Sarah Palin not running: Rep. Gabby Giffords…

Was Steve Jobs, an adoptee whose biological father was Syrian, the greatest Arab-American ever?  Glancing over Wikipedia’s list of Americans…

Herman Cain weighs in on Occupy Wall Street: “Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t…

In Bloomberg View, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis provide some intellectual backing for one of…

President Obama signed the bill to keep the government funded this morning, and will meet with President Porfirio Lobo of…