Mark Levine, ex-Bronx bilingual math and science teacher, is now Manhattan’s 28th borough president. So, in this job, what’s he doing besides cocktail parties?
After the Biden administration agreed to bail out the non-FDIC-insured deposits of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, Wall Street restored its hope that the Federal Reserve would slow down its monetary tightening. Investors — who waited through weeks of Chairman Jerome Powell insisting that the Fed's fight against inflation was far from over before pricing in a 50 basis point hike of the federal funds rate — have quickly returned to the expectation that the central bank will continue to slow down rate hikes to 25 basis points or even halt them entirely.
When quiet diplomacy doesn’t work to secure basic human rights for a U.S. citizen imprisoned abroad, a U.S. administration should feel obliged to unleash verbal fireworks — and then to back them up.
President Joe Biden is finally endorsing congressional legislation to ban TikTok from all American mobile devices. In doing so, he is making the political calculation that it will help him seem moderate as he heads into an election cycle. But let's set aside his motives and say plainly that this is the right call. Biden should be praised for it.
“Civil liberties have officially gone out of style” with Democrats, fumes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi after testifying at last week’s Weaponization of Government hearing.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) has finally acknowledged that some of her authoritarian COVID orders were ridiculous. Unfortunately for her, everyone else knew this three years ago, when she first put those orders in place.
