Plus: Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates
October 27 2021
Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration has instructed a Labor Department agency to force tens of millions of Americans to get a COVID-19 shot. OSHA doesn’t have that power, Heritage Foundation fellows Doug Badger and Paul Larkin write. On the podcast, a former liberal talks about his new book on how liberals failed American cities. Plus: China shows off its latest weapon; Sen. Mike Crapo slams the IRS’ snooping initiative; and Jason Riley celebrates the unorthodox Thomas Sowell. On this date in 1904, Mayor George McClellan takes the controls during the inaugural run of New York City’s subway system, soon to become the world’s largest.
“The drug crisis is the result of deliberate policies that are imposed by progressives,” says the author of “San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.”
China’s recent test of its fractional orbital bombardment system raises questions not only about Beijing’s advancing space and missile capabilities, but its strategic intentions.
Whether the subject was intellectual history, residential housing patterns, or language development in children, Sowell brought a certain skepticism of conventional theories to his analysis.