Starbucks Rescinds Employee COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Starbucks has decided the vaccine mandate isn't good for their business
Starbucks has decided the vaccine mandate isn't good for their business
They were a bit of both.
Some good changes have flown under the radar. But there have been few wins—political or practical.
Plus: Protecting the First Amendment, examining the SHOP SAFE Act, and more...
And now that the omicron variant is in retreat, everyone gets them for free. Great timing, guys.
A year in, he hasn’t lived up to his promises made to either the exhausted center or the progressive base.
Biden rightly stuck to his guns when he defended the long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he fails to apply the same logic elsewhere.
Both parties want to kill the filibuster when they are in the majority, and that's exactly why it needs to stick around.
Senate Democrats should avoid taking the easy, undemocratic way out.
If Democrats' voting rights bills are blocked, Biden says, "we have no choice but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster."
It's a welcome move after refugee resettlement hit a record low in fiscal year 2021.
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of people believe that the current state of the economy is "good" or "excellent."
Politicians point to corporate concentration they created to divert us from inflation they caused.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide how convincing that disguise is.
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden has made another COVID speech.
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams quashes a micro-rebellion among some teachers union members, but school closures Monday hit a record for 2021-22.
Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
Joe Biden promised to do better by migrants upon taking office, but he fell short in 2021.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
And we would be better citizens if we called him out for it more.
Farewell to a Biden White House messaging strategy that was terrible long before Omicron
Delaware figures prominently in Biden's stump speeches for the Build Back Better plan, but he seems to deliberately ignore some key details.
The president rightly points out that the federal government has sloshed billions of dollars to make K-12 schools even safer than they already were. Yet many are about to close.
Plus: Criminals have stolen $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, and colleges are planning to go virtual once again.
Prohibition has driven opioid-related deaths to record levels.
As omicron surges, the president urges everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.
When we decide to stop paying attention to it, say two authors in the health care journal BMJ.
Time to stop pretending
It's even worse than the widely-skewered broker provision.
Plus: Airline CEOs push back on masks on airplanes and the Fed prepares to fight inflation.
A new bill would transfer the review of petitions from the Justice Department to a presidentially appointed board.
Plus two more topics to howl about...
“There is profound disagreement over whether Court expansion at this moment in time would be wise.”
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Musk's finally ready to admit that government subsidies distort markets and that government actors are terrible at capital allocation.
Supplying the Ukrainian army hasn’t stopped Putin.
Economists predicted that we'd see 575,000 new jobs in November. A new Bureau of Labor Statistics report says only 210,000 were created.
Instead of impoverishing the world, we have to learn to live with COVID-19.
It's true that some users spread lies on social media. But this can’t be solved by partisan “fact-checking."
Biden’s presidency is already failing. Build Back Better wouldn't help.
Only about 100 Afghans who have applied for temporary admission to the U.S. have been approved.
The World Health Organization warns that such restrictions can cause more harm than they prevent.
Vaccine makers are already targeting the omicron variant.