Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, along with a few other folks, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for his role in deciding how the world handled major crises such as the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A U.S. court has lifted part of the ban on the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding a lower court went too far in blocking the vaccination requirements across the nation—but also predicting that the challenge to the mandate will probably succeed.
The recent exchange between Professor Khiara Bridges and Senator Josh Hawley provides an important lesson about the state of America’s most important institutions.