WASHINGTON DC - CIRCA JUNE 2009: Pentagon memorial circa June 2009 in Washington DC, USA. Permanent outdoor memorial to people killed in building and in Flight 77 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Trump’s National Security War on Organized Labor

The Trump administration is using national security concerns to reshape organized labor, with the UAW especially vulnerable. The implications extend well beyond the controversial auto and student workers union.

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Morgan Stanley: Too Big and Powerful to Regulate

My last conversation with my former client, the late Darryll Bolduc, happened nearly two decades ago, but I still remember it as if it were yesterday. Bolduc, a former Charlotte bond trader who became a whistleblower and ultimately a lawyer representing corporate conscientious objectors, was railing about how the big…

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Lost Creek Trail Area. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Nevada. USA

Lululemon and Ken Paxton’s Frontier Justice

Although it couldn’t happen to a more deserving company, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s disclosure that he’s investigating Lululemon for toxic “forever chemicals” smacks of performance politics.

Paxton’s press release briefly wiped out billions in Lululemon’s market value before any facts were established — violating the principle that even corporations are innocent until proven guilty.

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Third-Party Repair

Here’s why Deere’s $99 million class action settlement with farmers could become GM CEO Mary Barra’s next major problem after misjudging American demand for electric vehicles.

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Tired doctor sleeping with headache at night burnout at hospital office. General practitioner suffering stress or asleep working late in medical clinic

Why Smart People Shouldn’t Become Doctors

It takes a lot of smarts to become a doctor. Here’s why students smart enough to do it would be wise to pursue another career.

Nearly half of practicing physicians agree.

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Sturgis, SD, USA - May 29, 2019: A well known city for its motorcycle rally history

Bryon Noem: The Person vs. The Punchline

If you’re looking for friends who will stick with you through thick and thin, Castlewood, a South Dakota town of about 700 residents, might be the answer to your prayers.

It’s a set of values America’s political and media elite don’t understand.

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Kimmel and the Elite’s Contempt for Plumbers

America has an elitist hierarchy problem.

The people who build and repair things get mocked.

The people with the résumés are revered.

Jimmy Kimmel’s disrespect for plumbers exposed the disconnect.

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Lion (Panthera leo) sleeping on grass in savannah in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

When Joe Biden’s Lion Electric Stopped Roaring

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker this month delivered the final indignity to one of the Biden administration’s green energy bets: Lion Electric’s former U.S. electric bus factory is being taken over by a manufacturer of conventional diesel equipment.

The U.S., Canadian, and Quebec governments poured hundreds of millions into Lion. School districts were promised buses that never arrived. In Quebec, roughly 1,200 electric buses were pulled off the road after a fire triggered safety concerns, canceling scores of bus routes and even forcing some school service centres to cancel classes.

Lion was hardly the Biden administration’s only EV debacle. Proterra followed a similar path—subsidized demand, rapid scaling, and eventual collapse.

The corporate media has largely treated these failures as nothingburgers. The policymakers who committed taxpayer money on both sides of the border should be held accountable.

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