by jpitney | Apr 30, 2020 | Coronavirus, Trade
From Americans for Free Trade:
by jpitney | Apr 29, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus, Oversight
Yuval Levin and Yuval Levin and Adam J. White at National Review: [L]egislators should be prepared to take smaller steps by both authorizing and appropriating emergency government actions as required. Rather than assume that the president has the power he needs to...
by jpitney | Apr 28, 2020 | Civility, Coronavirus
Andrew E. Masich at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: When George Washington was a boy, he copied into his notebook over 100 “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.” Most of these rules he copied or adapted from well-known publications. But...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2020 | Presidency
Kate Anderson Brower at The New York Times: John F. Kennedy called on all three of his predecessors during the Cuban missile crisis, two Republicans (Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower) and one Democrat (Harry Truman). In 2005, George W. Bush sent his father on a...
by jpitney | Apr 26, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
Kristen Hare and Ren LaForme at Poynter: Layoffs were underway Friday at Gannett, which merged with GateHouse in late 2019 to become the largest newspaper chain in the U.S. with 261 newspapers in 46 states.We don’t yet have a clear picture of how many people and...
