Job-Hoppers Win, Loyalists Lose
ADP's latest pay data shows job-switchers pulling 7% raises while loyal stayers got 4.4%, barely ahead of inflation.
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ICE Becomes "NICE"
After a Minneapolis shooting whose official story fell apart on video, and a DHS Secretary fired over it, the rebrand rolled out was a cartoon acronym. That's the reset.
The Machines Took the Jobs, Just Not the Way We Feared
AI-linked layoffs have already hit 205,000 American workers in 2026 — matching all of last year in eight months.
59,000 Manufacturing Jobs Gone, Despite the Tariffs
A Texas flashlight maker moved production to Thailand to dodge tariffs. Now that tariffs have equalized across countries, it's eyeing China again. That's the reshoring story in miniature.
Ending H-1B "Abuse," On Paper
Rep. Eli Crane's bill would freeze H-1B issuance for three years, cut the annual cap to 25,000, and kill OPT outright. It won't pass. It's still worth reading.
The Quiet Channel to Tehran
Newly released emails show ICE let the Iranian Embassy edit its own deportation manifests, even mid-war with Iran, while eleven deportees say Tehran already knew their asylum secrets.
Eighty-Eight Reasons Your Raise Won't Feel Like One
88 jurisdictions are raising their minimum wage in 2026, but a raise measured in dollars that keep losing value is arithmetic dressed up as generosity.
A Council Staffer's Deportation Splits a City
Rafael Bohorquez followed the process, showed up to a routine check-in, and got deported anyway — over what the City Council Speaker calls a missing signature that could've been fixed in an hour.
Real Wages, Four Months Underwater
Hourly earnings ticked up 0.1% in July. Prices ate every bit of it, and then some — the fourth straight month workers lost ground.
A Judge, a Ban, and a State Department Tantrum
A Manhattan federal judge voided Rubio's 75-country immigrant visa freeze as "Orwellian" overreach; the State Department fired back calling her a "rogue judge" — and Václav finds neither branch especially convincing.