I’m not going to pretend that I know how to interpret the jobs and inflation data of the past few months. My view is that this is still an economy warped by the pandemic and that the dynamics are so strange and so unstable that it will be some time before we know its true. Read more »
Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful, and the two of them together require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages.
Editor s note: This is the second part in Frontpage Mag s new series on Racist Mayors. For Part I on Chicago s Lori Lightfoot, CLICK HERE. Stay tuned for more installments. President Joe Biden is reportedly considering the Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to India. Garcetti should feel right at home in India, where the huge homeless population will remind him of the homeless crisis in L.A. that has spun out of control under his watch. If Garcetti ends up with the ambassadorship, don’t be surprised if many Angelenos thank Biden for relieving them of their failed leftwing progressive mayor.
Note from Opinion Editor Amelia Robinson: Local attorney Kyle Strickland was invited to expand on thoughts he expressed in a Facebook post following the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant by a Columbus police officer. Strickland s comments, made before he was added to the city s civilian police review board, drew both criticism and praise.
“Do not let anyone tell you to ‘wait for all the facts’ while they simultaneously frame their own narrative of what occurred.”
This is the opening line of my Facebook post in the wake of the Chauvin verdict and the police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant. I wrote about the power of racist narratives and police violence in America.