China wants Beijing to look good for the Olympics. Global manufacturing output will suffer as a result.
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Posted inPolitics
Making China’s Case: Manchin, Sinema, and the Six Supremes
By demonstrating America can’t ensure the right to vote or to survive a pandemic, they’re bolstering the argument that authoritarian regimes work better than ours.
Posted inPolitics
There Is a Bully Pulpit
And thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden will need to use it.
Posted inTAP
The Republicans’ Death Panel Finally Emerges!
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court’s Republican Six rule that the government lacks the power to fight a pandemic.
Posted inPolitics
Democratic Inaction Will Lead Us Back to Austerity
Fiscal policy has reverted negative right when omicron is surging, and the Democrats are uncertain about where to turn for political success.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Remote Workers Punch Holes in City Revenues
Cities hard hit by the pandemic economic slowdown maneuver to keep local income taxes flowing.
Posted inCoronavirus
Fire Jeff Zients
Biden’s COVID czar has gone from ‘Mr. Fix-It’ to grim reaper, steering the administration’s pandemic response to catastrophic lows.
Posted inEducation in America
The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game
We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge.
Posted inTAP
Has the Federal Reserve Heard of Omicron?
Today on TAP: Raising rates when the economy is on the brink of a second pandemic recession would be lunacy.
Posted inWorking in America
Can OSHA Keep Workers Safe? The Court Hears the Case Tomorrow.
Had OSHA’s standard not been stayed by the most conservative circuit court, the number of COVID cases and deaths would have been reduced.
