Qualcomm Qualcomm Gets a ReprieveThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted Qualcomm a reprieve from a lower-court order that would have knee-capped America’s 5G innovation. Let’s hope the Federal Trade Commission will take
Bernie Sanders Bernie's Green Leap ForwardThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardBernie Sanders published his version of the Green New Deal last week, and it’s written with all the realism voters have come to expect. Start with its price: “an historic $16.3 trillion.” That’s 10 times
Opinion Smearing Steven MenashiThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe Trump Administration is nominating more federal judges, and right behind comes the character assassination. The latest target is Steven Menashi, a highly regarded appellate lawyer who was acting general
Tariffs The Market Gets What It WantsThe Wall Street Journal. - Andy KesslerAre you talking to me? The market dropped 767 points Aug. 5 on news of China’s currency devaluation, then popped 311 points the next day on delayed tariffs, then sank 800 points eight days later after
Brazil What You Haven't Read About BrazilThe Wall Street Journal. - Mary Anastasia O’GradyBrazil announced last week that it will privatize 17 more government enterprises, including federal electricity giant Eletrobras, the national mint and the postal service. Dozens of ports, airports, railroads
Enterprise 'Free Enterprise' Review: A Motto for CapitalismThe Wall Street Journal. - Matthew ReesBernie Sanders’s jeremiads against big business and the wealthy have helped popularize an economic philosophy that, in America, has rarely had much appeal: socialism. Among Democrats, it is now viewed
David Koch Don't Hate Koch Because He Was GenerousThe Wall Street Journal. - Chandra BozelkoDavid Koch is dead. Long live cooperation across ideological lines. When Koch Industries invited me to the 2015 Bipartisan Summit on Criminal Justice Reform in March 2015, I was a year out of prison and
Opinion The Weaponization of HistoryThe Wall Street Journal. - Wilfred M. McClayHistory is the most humbling and humanizing of subjects. It opens reality to us in all its gorgeous variety, from the earthbound lives of ordinary peasants and servants to the rarefied universe of the
Greenland Make Denmark Another Offer for GreenlandThe Wall Street Journal. - S. Enders WimbushBuying Greenland shouldn’t be a joke. It’s strategically important in our ever-shifting geopolitical landscape. Its potential would be better used in American hands. If I were advising the president, tell
Opinion Don't Give Up on Biosimilars---Congress Can Give Them a BoostThe Wall Street Journal. - Scott GottliebBiologic drugs are one of this century’s great medical triumphs. They’ve reshaped the treatment of diverse and debilitating diseases from cancer to multiple sclerosis to heart attacks. They’re also one
Opinion Notable & Quotable: Climate PoliticsThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalFor months now, Democratic primary voters have told pollsters that climate change is a top-tier issue, tied with health care for importance. [Washington Gov. Jay] Inslee made that idea central to his He
Opinion 'Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin' Review: Snapping Southern GothicThe Wall Street Journal. - Richard B. WoodwardIn the first roomof “Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin” at the High Museum of Art are two black-and-white photographs of a deserted Louisiana plantation. Both were taken on the day
Tariffs Just Another Manic FridayThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe trouble with trade wars, like shooting wars, is that once they start you never know how they’re going to end. The enemy gets a vote, and sometimes events escalate in ugly fashion. Take Friday, which
David Koch David KochThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhen David Koch died Friday at age 79, the headlines underscored that he used his great wealth to “reshape” American politics. Certainly he used his money to support causes he deemed worthy, and this promoting
George Osborne The IMF Needs an UpgradeThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhen new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with Donald Trump recently, he had a specific request: Please support George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to lead the International
Opinion Obama Still Can't Build ThatThe Wall Street Journal. - James FreemanBefore making commitments to environmental “stakeholders” who have no stake in his business, perhaps JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon should have observed the resistance mounted by local stakeholders in
Sweden Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About SwedenThe Wall Street Journal. - Adam O’NealWhat is socialism? Some of its advocates have trouble defining the ideology. “Being a socialist means different things to different people,” a leftist podcast host told actress Cynthia Nixon last year.
Dean Baquet The Tragedy of the TimesThe Wall Street Journal. - Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Thank you, Dean Baquet. Readers who complain about articles they don’t like, and who assume they are written under pressure from advertisers, could do worse than to study recent comments of the New York
G7 Summit Reagan and Trump's Lesson for Today's G-7The Wall Street Journal. - Lawrence KudlowAs leaders of the Group of Seven—the world’s largest advanced economies—gather this weekend in Biarritz, France, they would be wise to study a bit of G-7 history. In May 1983, the U.S. hosted the G-7 economic
Opinion Politics Won't Come Between My Appalachian Cousins and MeThe Wall Street Journal. - Caroline Aiken KosterLate summer is family reunion season in Eastern Kentucky. As a child I’d drive with my parents 3½ hours south from our home in Louisville to Pine Mountain State Park for the annual Appalachian gathering
Opinion A Stellar Lament of Lost LoveThe Wall Street Journal. - John Edward HasseWhat is probably the most-recorded American song in history began as melodic fragments imagined by a former Indiana University student named Hoagland “Hoagy” Carmichael. When he finished fiddling with
Opinion 'The Borgias' and 'The Family Medici' Review: Dangerous DynastiesThe Wall Street Journal. - Jamie JamesReaders of history, like all readers, love an engrossing narrative: a conquest triumphant or repulsed, a great man brought to ruin by his flaws. The story doesn’t have to have heroes and villains, but
Socialism Socialism in Two CountriesThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe Chicago Teachers Union is taking fire after a trip to Venezuela by a four-member delegation made the headlines. Critics say it was inappropriate for the union group to meet with officials from the
Opinion A 100-Year Treasury?The Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardSome $16 trillion in securities around the world are trading at negative yields. Austria earlier this summer issued a 100-year ultra-low-yield bond. Germany this week sold 30-year bonds that pay no interest;
Opinion What 'Red Flags' Really Look LikeThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe debate over red-flag laws, which let police impound a person’s guns if a legal process determines he poses a threat, is playing out mostly in the abstract. How about a few real-life stories? An academic
Opinion 'New Left Urbanists' Want to Remake Your CityThe Wall Street Journal. - Christopher F. RufoAmerica’s big cities are almost all dominated by the Democratic Party, but the politics of urban development are far from monolithic. In the past few years, a new faction has emerged across the country.
India India Should Quit Harassing the 'Super-Rich'The Wall Street Journal. - Sadanand DhumeHow should a poor country treat its rich? Nearly three decades ago, India embarked upon free-market economic reforms after a failed dalliance with state planning that almost drove it to bankruptcy. It
Joseph Stalin Hitler and Stalin Weren't Such Strange BedfellowsThe Wall Street Journal. - Juliana Geran PilonKnown officially as the Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Hitler-Stalin pact—signed 80 years ago Friday—stunned the world. Some said that by uniting
Opinion Mind Your Manners, Says Edith WhartonThe Wall Street Journal. - Peggy NoonanThis week we turn the column over to Edith Wharton, (1862-1937), the great woman of letters and author of the Gilded Age novels “The Age of Innocence,” “The House of Mirth” and “The Custom of the Country.”
