David Manney writes for PJMedia.com about important details hidden by the latest American employment numbers. President Donald Trump got handed an ugly jobs headline Friday. The economy lost 23,000 payroll…
Editors at National Review Online see one positive data point emerging from the federal government. Don’t look now, but the federal government might actually have gotten leaner. The most recent…
Aaron Sibarium writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one nonprofit group’s regrettable turn. The Volcker Alliance, founded in 2013 by Ronald Reagan’s Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker, describes itself…
Howard Husock writes for National Affairs about a critical failure among universities’ public policy schools. Whatever your view of the role of government, it should be obvious that our society…
Jack Crowe reports for National Review Online on a congressional proposal that could have a major impact on Washington, D.C. The “Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) Act,” which is…
Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner assesses the immediate impact for federal workers of the partial federal government shutdown. Federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown will miss their…
Evie Fordham documents for the Daily Caller the Trump administration’s impact on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shed approximately 1,200 jobs as roughly 1,600 employees…
Tevi Troy, a veteran of the Washington bureaucratic behemoth, devotes a Commentary article to detailing one type of challenge the incoming Trump administration will face. Career officials are savvy bureaucratic…
Megan McArdle writes about the latest instance of left-wing hypocrisy: The Department of Energy has balked at a request from the Trump transition team to provide the names of all…
View in your browser. One of the many things I like about North Carolina is a provision in the NC General Statutes that forbids collective bargaining by public employees. Thanks…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s 2013 ruling against Charlotte in a dispute involving a Charlotte Douglas International Airport safety officer seeking…
As pundits and scribes continue to look for “root causes” of the IRS scandal, Jonathan Tobin of Commentary points to an important fact: Liberals run the federal government. The details…