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1 week ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
In mid-May, the Department of Government Efficiency — which was established by an executive order, does not have the statutory authority of a government department or agency, is not funded by Congress and claims to not be subject to legislative oversight — tried to embed a team in the Government Accounting Office. The GAO helps Congress audit government spending to identify waste, fraud and mismanagement.
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2 weeks ago | 
flcourier.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
BOOK REVIEWReview of Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea by Marcus Rediker. Viking. 416 pages. $32. On Aug. 10, 1846, an “intelligent mulatto” slave named George stowed away on a ship in New Orleans, headed for Boston and, he hoped, freedom. It was not to be.
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2 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
In the newly released “Mark Twain,” Ron Chernow draws on an Everest of archival material (consisting of thirty books and pamphlets, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, eleven thousand letters, fifty notebooks, and six hundred incomplete manuscripts) in an exhaustive, and at times exhausting, portrait of this complex and contradictory creative genius.
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2 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
In one of his first executive orders, President Trump declared that, following the Oct.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
In one of his first executive orders, President Trump declared that, following the Oct.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
Warren Buffett announced earlier this month that he would retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year. The multinational conglomerate, which he acquired in 1965 when it was a textile mill, became the first non-technology company to reach a $1 trillion market cap. At age 94, Buffett is the fifth-wealthiest person in the world.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
Warren Buffett announced earlier this month that he would retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year. The multinational conglomerate, which he acquired in 1965 when it was a textile mill, became the first non-technology company to reach a $1 trillion market cap. At age 94, Buffett is the fifth-wealthiest person in the world.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
About 42 percent of Americans approve of President Trump’s performance in office, a historic low for a president in the early months of his term. Just 43 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, which had been his strong suit; 44 percent believe he “understands the problems facing people like you;” 55 percent oppose his tariff policies; 54 percent believe he is “exceeding the powers available to him.” A whopping 66 percent chose the word “chaotic” to describe his policies.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
Attacks on higher education are occurring almost daily. The Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars in federal research funding at elite universities, deported international students with little or no due process, questioned the tax-exempt status of Harvard and accused dozens of institutions of tolerating antisemitism, among other aggressive actions.
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1 month ago | 
jpost.com | Glenn C. Altschuler
More than 40 years after the death of Chaim Grade – whom Elie Wiesel called “one of the great, if not the greatest, contemporary Yiddish novelists” – an English translation by Rose Waldman of Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, Grade resettled in New York after his wife and mother were murdered during the Holocaust.
