WASHINGTON — The April jobs report found the U.S. economy added 175,000 new positions, but it fell below expectations. Unemployment nudged up to 3.9 percent last month, which at least keeps unemployment below 4 percent for 27 months in a…
Something is very wrong. It’s the problem without a name. I used to think it was my fault. Please understand, with some exceptions, but for more than a half century, I have been blessed by the most impressive assistants: Hard…
Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male…
As I reflect upon a long life, one disturbing trend increasingly stands out: Americans seem to work less than they used to. People want time off these days for “parental leave,” or don’t want to have to leave their home…
Although I retired from government service in 2018, I still stay in touch with many friends I made while working in the nuclear weapons community. One of them routinely shares articles of interest across the broad spectrum of nuclear security…
More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from human passions will imperil economic growth and lead to people living on a bare…
Critics of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent $1.2 trillion funding package have compared Congress to a drunken sailor, which is an insult to intoxicated swabbies everywhere. After all, they stop spending once they burn through their earnings. The U.S. government…
The loud pro-Hamas protests that have unfolded across Europe and North America for the past few months are the latest manifestation of a transformation that has been going on for decades. Many protesters carried Islamic flags and chanted “death to…
Since the onset of the 1979 Revolution, Iran has adopted a strategy to engage and neutralize external threats far from its borders in tacit acknowledgment that their military has a minute chance of surviving a conventional force-on-force encounter with technologically…
