A ruling by the Government Accountability Office allows Joe Biden to keep Julie Su in charge of the Labor Department without confirmation by the Senate. Before Biden tapped her for the post, Su headed California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA),…
These days there are a lot of Christmas dinners with friends, family, or (the most dreaded) coworkers. The latter often result in impossible engagements, layoffs, fights, and drunken intoxications that would make a Viking blush. Many employees hate Christmas dinner…
The winds of World War III are blowing, not at a gale, but more than a breeze. Like a long-forgotten and unmissed uncle, anti-Semitism is back in town and threatens to stick around for a while. Washington, D.C., is simultaneously…
“Xi’s Idea of Free College Loans,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Aug. 23, 2023.
When China lifted its authoritarian COVID restrictions last December, its economy was expected to roar back. But its second-quarter numbers just came in, and they suggest that the economy is sputtering and slipping into deflation. In fact, some economists have…
If you are among the 8 in 10 Americans who believe the economy is tanking, relax. Never mind that the consumer-price index just hit 8.6 percent. Ignore skyrocketing gas prices. Forget that the gross domestic product shrank at an annual…
It all seemed to make sense. Americans were hard workers, but jobs were scarce. So the 1930s Great Depression’s severe unemployment levels seemed the time for the national government to create a New Deal of welfare programs to assist those…
Editors do impose a degree of discipline on writers, but the smarter authors succeed by building layers of self-discipline. This ranges from forcing themselves to work and mercilessly amputating favored limbs of early drafts, all the way to refraining from…
For most Americans, 2020 was a challenging year. But for thieves and fraudsters looking to exploit government assistance, it was a banner year. Federal policies meant to aid out-of-work individuals at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic made the unemployment…
