Vaccine Mandates Aren’t the Only – or Easiest – Way for Employers to Compel Workers to Get Their Shots

Can companies legally require workers to get vaccinated? Employers have gotten so good at finding ways to get employees to comply with their policies that it may not matter. A workplace showdown may be brewing over mandating vaccinations. Employers would … Read More

Biden keeps U.S. refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000 – for now

President Joe Biden signed an order on Friday limiting U.S. refugee admissions this year to the historically low 15,000 cap set under his predecessor Donald Trump, shelving a plan to raise it to 62,500 and drawing the ire of refugee … Read More

US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal

posted in: Middle East, News

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 9, 2020. The Biden administration is weighing a near wholesale rollback of some … Read More

Nearly half the U.S. is in drought and conditions are expected to grow worse, NOAA says

KEY POINTS Nearly half of the continental U.S. is in a moderate to exceptional drought, government forecasters said Thursday, and conditions are expected to grow more severe and persistent over the next three months. It’s the most significant spring drought … Read More

Biden losing friends and gaining enemies

Biden’s unforced errors are killing America in the grand geopolitical game of the 21st century. US President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington on February 4, 2021. Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb US President … Read More

Biden picks an ill-conceived fight with Russia

Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border threatens a war that will be hard to stop once it starts. Russian servicemen conduct operations during Command Post exercise of the Airborne Force at the Opuk base in Crimea. (Photo by Igor … Read More

Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan

posted in: European Union, News

Biden’s curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. Biden called Erdogan the day before making his … Read More

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