Gabe Briguglio, who was known as "Gabe Bugs," is now in his 80's, but in 1976 he made it to suspect number 5 on the FBI's famed "Hoffex Memo" list, the detailed, confidential 1976 bureau report about the legendary labor leader's disappearance. Eric Shawn tracked him down.
Providing assistance directly to affected workers will also benefit those workers’ employers and reduce the need for disconcerting and selective bailouts to big businesses.
As coronavirus infections continue to increase across the U.S., policymakers and health care officials are quickly realizing that one of the biggest challenges that could soon face the nation is a shortage hospital beds.
American law provides ample leeway to control epidemics and pandemics, including with non-consensual measures if public health experts deem them necessary.
The need to gear up Washington’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is obviously, and appropriately, squeezing out the time available to deal with other issues. So it is with FISA.
After decades of unethical trade practices and human rights violations, the coronavirus crisis should be the final straw against China’s case for global leadership.
President Trump should create a planning team to think beyond the immediate crisis. We need two enormous steps beyond the trillion-dollar emergency bill.
Israel is using cellphone data to find out who a coronavirus patient may have exposed to the virus when asymptomatic. Such surveillance measures would be consistent with the U.S. Constitution, given U.S. Supreme Court precedents
We will get through the coronavirus. But the debt and deficit will remain an existential threat to our nation. It is foolhardy to keep running up the national credit card without worrying about how to pay it off.
