The decision by Amazon workers in Alabama to reject unionization speaks to how truly unpopular organized labor has become. It was heartening, though not particularly surprising, to see workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., decisively reject unionization efforts last week. When employees are afforded a choice, they usually ...

They are trying to shut down debate, and they have plenty of help. During his Super Bowl interview on CBS Evening News, President Joe Biden declared that "all the economics" of a $15 minimum-wage hike were good. What he meant to say was, all the politics of a $15 minimum wage are good. The economics are highly debatable. A minimum-wage ...

President Biden contends that there is "nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months" — which is the exact opposite of what presidential candidate Joe Biden promised voters during the 2020 campaign. Candidate Biden's plan said that "the trajectory of COVID-19 in America is headed in the wrong ...

He has gone back on a campaign promise to change the virus's trajectory and set as a goal a rate of vaccination that the U.S. had already met or exceeded. President Joe Biden contends there is "nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months," which is the exact opposite of what presidential candidate ...

Yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who signed an executive order forcing nursing homes in his state to accept patients who tested positive for the coronavirus in March, informed reporters there was no need for an independent inquiry into his deadly mistake because no one can be deemed reliable enough to investigate him. “There is no ...

We now have a chance to correct a historic injustice. Princeton University has announced that it plans to remove the name of former president Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school because of his segregationist views. Other institutions with Wilson’s name will likely be pressured to follow suit. Good riddance, Woodrow. Wilson was one of ...

A boy in my neighborhood committed suicide a few weeks ago. It’s possible that the teen’s preexisting problems were exacerbated by the seclusion, tediousness, and helplessness of a national lockdown. Maybe not. I didn’t really know him. I do know that locals were forced to pay respects by sitting parked cars in the local Catholic church’s ...

At the height of the Russia-collusion hysteria, those who theorized that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was grounded in the fabulist Steele dossier — a document paid for by the political party running against target of the investigation — would be rigorously fact-checked. Mainstream reporters covering the Russian collusion ...

The idea that he is promoting the drug to boost the price of a mutual fund he owns shares in is perhaps the most ludicrous conspiracy theory yet. A widely shared, four-person-bylined, “wow”-provoking New York Times story today informs us that Donald Trump is personally benefiting from his “aggressive advocacy” of the anti-malaria ...

When 96 percent of spy warrants reviewed contain serious errors or omissions — that’s wholescale fraud, not a few little slip-ups. Consider this scenario: A federal lawyer is filling out applications requesting FISA warrants to spy on American citizens who work for a major presidential campaign to determine whether the campaign staffers ...

Puerile partisan populism is going to end up costing Americans millions of jobs. One imagines most Americans would rather rescue their jobs from the ravages of coronavirus-induced downturn than lose them and just get a government check. Yet on Sunday, Democrats blocked a procedural vote on a coronavirus relief package in the Senate, arguing ...

If the Chinese government spent as much time working on educating its people and regulating dangerous markets as it does on secrecy and propaganda efforts, maybe it wouldn’t have to worry as much about diseases being named after it. The World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed us to stop referring to the new strain ...

The document shrugs off a staggering number of ‘serious performance failures’. How many “missteps” does it take for an FBI investigation to be considered improper by the Inspector General? According to IG Michael Horowitz, the magic number lies somewhere north of 17. That’s the number of “serious performance failures” uncovered by ...

He’s a stopped clock who has yet to be right about Trump. This Thursday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told the House Budget Committee that there was “no reason to think, that I can see, that the probability of a downturn is at all elevated.” Not every economic indicator is perfect, but wages are rising (especially on the lower ...