Why the U.S. aviation system isn’t immune to a tragedy like today’s Air India crash.
Why the U.S. aviation system isn’t immune to a tragedy like today’s Air India crash.
June 8, 2025 — Business, Technology, Travel
Why it’s time to break up the Big Four airline monopoly and demand real reform in U.S. aviation.
Think you’re immune from getting banned by one of America’s monopoly airlines? Unless you’ve been blessed with the patience of Job, you’re deluding yourself.
Talk about a headline that left me disappointed. When I saw that Men’s Journal headline teasing Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan’s two-word response to scrapping the airline’s historic no-nickel-and-diming ethos, I had a glimmer of hope. Maybe Jordan had channeled his inner Jamie Dimon and let fly with the infamous…
If there were a Hall of Fame for compensation excess, customer contempt, and employee disdain, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wouldn’t just have a plaque—he’d occupy the entire west wing.
May 23, 2025 — Business, Politics, Technology
U.S. electric vehicle adoption sustained some massive setbacks this week and it’s become undeniable that attempts by Joe Biden, in partnership with GM and Ford, to force Americans to drive EVs was a massive policy failure of unrivaled proportions.
It’s been nearly 30 years since Ford last aired its widely praised “Quality is Job 1” campaign—but a growing wave of safety recalls and lawsuits has turned the once-proud slogan into a punchline.
May 16, 2025 — Politics, Technology
Elon Musk’s false claims about widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration helped trigger a policy that delayed benefits for more than 140,000 Americans. Internal documents obtained by a federal technology publication reveal that the real problem wasn’t fraud—it was misinformation, weaponized by Musk and Trump administration officials at the expense of vulnerable retirees.
May 14, 2025 — Business, Politics, Technology
While Washington dithers on privacy protections, Texas AG Ken Paxton is rewriting the rules on corporate data abuse—one billion-dollar lawsuit at a time. From Google to GM, his legal warpath is putting Big Tech and Big Auto on notice: mess with consumer privacy in Texas, and you’ll pay.
May 12, 2025 — Antisemitism
Democrats and the corporate media, when it suits their purposes, are quick to warn Jews about historical parallels to Hitler and the rise of Nazism in Germany, which led to the slaughter of six million Jews. These warnings often involve the actions of Donald Trump and, increasingly, Elon Musk, whose…