US President Donald Trump's mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis has depleted his support among independents and moderates – the groups that will decide the November election. And with the virus raging out of control, he has no good options.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that he would not use executive authority to stop the state’s 7.7 percent minimum wage increase, which will take the minimum wage from its current level of $13 per hour up to $14 an hour on January 1, 2021 for businesses with more than 25 employees. For businesses with 25 or fewer employees, the minimum wage will rise to $13 per hour, which is an 8.3 percent increase.
The public option promises to lower health insurance premiums without increasing federal spending, but Congress has broken similar promises on many occasions.
Whether consciously or by reacting to his own political incentives, Trump has become a stouter defender of our original governing document than his critics.
Each year Freedom House measures freedom around the world using several criteria. Unfortunately, its recent report showed the 14th consecutive year in which freedom worldwide has declined.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson says that the left has “hijacked” the protests over the death of George Floyd in order to stage a cultural revolution.
The scene Americans awakened to over the weekend could have been out of an ISIS propaganda video: images of protesters in Portland burning bibles and American flags. The bible and flag burnings were part of the continuing protests at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland. Those protests, which turned violent after midnight, were met by no police presence or the federal officers stationed inside the building.
quoting Caroline M. Hoxbyvia The London School of Economics and Political Science
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Experts discuss the trade-offs between work incentives and income support; whether top-ups should be reduced, and how economics and public health might determine federal contribution levels, writes Romesh Vaitilingam.
Going back to school after a lazy summer can be a struggle for many children, but this year the biggest challenge may be convincing the teachers to return. With the fall semester just a few weeks away, teachers’ unions in many communities are setting up a major test for President Trump as he pushes for schools to reopen, holding anti-reopening rallies and warning that school districts that opt for in-person learning could be hit by “safety strikes.”
The one thing Joe Biden, Mayor Bill deBlasio, New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Michael Mulgrew, the NYC president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), have in common: they all hate charter schools.
featuring Elizabeth Economyvia Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Monday, August 3, 2020
At the precipice of a new cold war, China has more instruments of power than it has ever had, but challenges and missteps mean that the world’s democratic countries still have the upper hand—at least for the moment, says Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
People often ask how I can be optimistic about our future with artificial intelligence, when everyone knows that we’re all about to die from global warming. A new book provides some perspective and context for some of the extreme claims we read in the media.
President Trump and University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo met face-to-face at the White House for the first time on Thursday, the lawyer confirmed to The Hill.
Today, I attended, with other media, a virtual presser held by Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans. He was strikingly pessimistic, saying that US GDP is unlikely to return to pre-Covid levels for another two years.
mentioning Amy Zegartvia The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Friday, August 7, 2020
Recent commentary about what the Intelligence Community told or should have told the President about Russian support to the Taliban has presented a distorted and incomplete view of the roles of intelligence and intelligence professionals. FSI Fellow Thomas Fingar will describe how the process of providing intelligence to policy makers is supposed to work and who decides what intelligence is given to which senior officials.
