House Speaker John Boehner recently ended speculation about whether his chamber would consider companion legislation to the comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill that was passed by the Senate over a year ago. The answer: a flat "no," kicking the can down the road until -...
For a long time, global economic competition came down to this: who had the best products at the most favorable price. In today's economy, it goes a step further. So much value is wrapped up in intellectual property and innovation - brilliant ideas, turned into...
A new study from a respected Washington think tank, the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, corroborates the longstanding claims of American high-tech industries: that positions requiring advanced skills in science, technology, engineering, and math - the STEM fields - actually are much harder to fill than non-STEM...
Many of America's oldest cities share a common trait: an urban core that's wasting away, even while surrounding suburbs and exurbs continue to grow. Instead of crying over spilled milk - the decades of planning decisions that privileged private cars over public transit, that encouraged...
This is the way comprehensive immigration reform ends, at least for now: not with a bang, but a whimper. On June 30, 2014 - a year to the day after the Senate passed landmark immigration reform legislation - President Obama announced what most observers already...
Digital technology permeates every aspect of our lives, from the cars we drive to the cell phones we carry, even to the appliances in our kitchens and laundry rooms. Any company that wants to compete in this IT-intensive world needs to hire the smartest, most...
Want to rebuild America's cities? Immigration just might be the answer, argues Michael Bloomberg, the self-made billionaire philanthropist and former New York City mayor. In a recent speech to a group that promotes entrepreneurship, Mr. Bloomberg, "said that offering citizenship to entrepreneurial immigrants is the...
Herewith, a dispatch from the "who'd have thought?" department of the MurthyBlog: as regular readers will have noted in recent months, support for immigration reform has been getting ever more bipartisan; it's no longer just the Democrats who are behind it. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)...
Fear seems to be driving the recent surge of unaccompanied minors who have been crossing the southwestern border of the United States. The children - largely from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala - are fleeing an epidemic of gang violence in their home countries,...
On June 10th, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, was soundly defeated in the Virginia Republican Party's primary election, which determined who will represent the GOP in the midterm elections this November. Taking Mr. Cantor's place on the midterm ballot will be David Brat, a little-known...
