Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday, barely a week after he acquired the company, should serve as an all-but-literal announcement: Whatever assurances he offers to […]
Guest Editorials
Holding corps and abusive countries accountable for slave-labor use
Various prominent U.S. corporations, including Walmart and Intel, might be shying away from principled stances condemning foreign uses of slavery and child labor for the production of […]
What plastic bag ban? Calif. stores still doling out disposable sacks
Didn’t we ban single-use plastic shopping bags in California? Yes — in 2014, though the law didn’t take effect until two years later because the plastic industry […]
Small airplane seats will become safety hazards
More than 25,000 Americans have responded to the Federal Aviation Administration’s request for comment to “assist the agency” in deciding whether minimum seat dimensions should be mandated […]
Federal Reserve is right to suggest slowing rate hikes
Economies are not known for being simple things to untangle. Unlike in the physical sciences, where if you do enough calculations, you can shoot a projectile into […]
Attack on Paul Pelosi is an attack on democracy
America is now a nation where acts of political violence are so predictable that for months before an assailant broke into the San Francisco home of House […]
Short-term fix for migration points to larger problem
The Biden administration continues to be overwhelmed at the southern border, and Venezuelans fleeing oppression and despair are an ongoing challenge. Their attempt to enter the U.S. […]
Early rebuke for Fla. election police
A Miami judge dealt a victory Friday for the law, decency and common sense by dismissing a fraud case brought by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his new […]
Biden’s abortion rights statement was ill-timed — and necessary
President Joe Biden’s recent pledge to pass and sign a national abortion rights law next year if Democrats hold Congress may look like (and to some extent […]
Can’t Truss it: Toodle-oo to a prime minister we barely got to know
Short-lived governments are routine in some democracies, with uncertainty the norm and predictability ever elusive. Yet never in London, where hundreds of years of steady parliamentary rule […]
