The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Left of ObamaThe Wall Street Journal. - James FreemanThis column is not the first to notice that Democratic politicians seem to spend about half the day accusing President Trump of trashing vaguely defined Constitutional norms—and the other half explaining
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Trump's Syria MessThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhat a fiasco. Foreign-policy blunders often take months or years to reveal their damaging consequences, but the harm from President Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria is playing
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion The Warren-Zuckerberg ClashThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardSilicon Valley companies excel at many things, but there’s little evidence their expertise extends to designing ingenious new systems for controlling political speech. That’s why Facebook was wise to last
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Puerto Rico at the Supreme CourtThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardAmid a spiraling economic crisis in Puerto Rico, Congress established a control board to impose outside discipline. The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the board’s constitutionality in a case that
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Bill Barr 'Gets' ReligionThe Wall Street Journal. - William McGurnFor Notre Dame fans, this football weekend was a twofer. Not only did the Irish beat a longtime rival, the University of Southern California, on Saturday, the campus was treated to a sight it had never
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion China's Techno-KleptomaniaThe Wall Street Journal. - William J. HolsteinThe news that the U.S. has arrested Peng Xuehua of Hayward, Calif., for allegedly funneling classified American secrets to China’s Ministry of State Security can’t be dismissed as an isolated incident.
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Turkey Is Stepping Up Where Others Fail to ActThe Wall Street Journal. - Recep Tayyip ErdoğanSince the Syrian civil war began in 2011, no country has felt the pain of the ensuing humanitarian crisis more severely than Turkey. We took in 3.6 million Syrian refugees—more than any other country—and
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global PovertyThe Wall Street Journal. - David R. HendersonThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer of Harvard
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion 'Return to the Reich' Review: Refugee ReduxThe Wall Street Journal. - Neal BascombIt was with noble purpose that Eric Lichtblau came to write “Return to the Reich.” He wanted to celebrate the anonymous, unsung heroes of World War II and sought the advice of Eli Rosenbaum, a former of
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Mike Pompeo's PredicamentThe Wall Street Journal. - Walter Russell MeadForeign leaders have found much to dislike in President Trump’s policy—the aggressive stance on trade, the chaotic policy process, the disregard for convention and past agreements. Yet they’ve seemed to
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion 'Fuzzy-Profound' Words Cause Mental RotThe Wall Street Journal. - Stephen MillerWhat are “qualia”? I stumbled on the word recently in the Times Literary Supplement, where a review of novels by Neal Stephenson and Don DeLillo observed that both authors “are much concerned with qualia.”
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion 'Ernst Ludwig Kirchner' Review: A Colorful PortraitThe Wall Street Journal. - Lance EsplundWhat’s so surprising about “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner”—the Neue Galerie’s vibrant survey of the eminent German Expressionist—is how seemingly French, and even at times neoclassical and Southern, this quintessential
The Wall Street Journal.Hunter Biden The Bidens ConcedeThe Wall Street Journal. - James FreemanNot even the Biden family seems willing to stand behind their questionable financial arrangements. A business associate in Shanghai doesn’t seem to have an explanation yet, either. Are the bitter-enders
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Central Europe's Democratic LessonThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardSince the fall of Communism, former Soviet satellites like Hungary and Poland have shown that countries burdened by a statist past can flourish as capitalist democracies. Today many in the West worry Budapest
The Wall Street Journal.China The China Trade TruceThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardPresident Trump on Friday announced a trade deal with China that he called “tremendous” or “tremendously” positive 15 times. The details look far more modest to us, but this truce in the trade war beats
The Wall Street Journal.Adam Schiff Adam Schiff's 'Grand Jury'The Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardDonald Trump is lucky in his opponents. Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate, and now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has chosen Rep. Adam Schiff to be the face of impeachment for Democrats. Mrs. Pelosi took
The Wall Street Journal.Energy Make Dishwashers That Clean AgainThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardThe political campaign to use less fossil-fuel energy has real-world consequences, and one is that modern appliances don’t work like they used to. The Trump Energy Department wants to let manufacturers
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Trump Wins Every Democratic DebateThe Wall Street Journal. - Bobby JindalThe Republican National Committee should offer to be the official sponsor of a weekly Democratic presidential debate. There would be no better advertisement for President Trump’s re-election. Every time
The Wall Street Journal.Education How Parents Helped Transform a Los Angeles SchoolThe Wall Street Journal. - Antonio VillaraigosaUrban public schools in America have been failing for generations. Yet the turnaround of one public school shows how progress can be made. When parents and an education-reform nonprofit recently stepped
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Honest Ads Act Is False AdvertisingThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalThis article is signed by Bradley A. Smith, Lee E. Goodman, and Michael E. Toner, all former chairmen of the Federal Election Commission. A Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian efforts to influence
The Wall Street Journal.China Beijing Tries To Bully CongressThe Wall Street Journal. - Sean Patrick MaloneyChina took the extraordinary step earlier this month of denying visas to a bipartisan American congressional delegation. We were barred from the country for one reason only—our planned visit to Taiwan.
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion 'The Cigarette' Review: No Smoking, PleaseThe Wall Street Journal. - Barton SwaimThe political philosopher Kenneth Minogue, in his classic study “The Liberal Mind” (1963), memorably compared modern liberalism in its prime to St. George slaying the dragon. From the 16th century to 19th,
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion What if You Couldn't Subscribe to Netflix?The Wall Street Journal. - Robert M. McDowellWhat if Congress passed a law mandating that Netflix, YouTube and other video providers would each be barred from making their services available to an arbitrary fraction of American households? It’s but
The Wall Street Journal.Wealth What's a Wealth Tax Worth?The Wall Street Journal. - Andy KesslerWhy do liberals think rich people have money just lying around, like Scrooge McDuck swimming in a giant pool of gold coins? That’s the myth behind plans to tax Americans’ wealth, as Sens. Elizabeth Warren
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Bondholders and Venezuelan DemocracyThe Wall Street Journal. - Mary Anastasia O’GradyOn Oct. 28, $913 million in principal and interest will be due on a bond issued by Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil monopoly, known as PdVSA. The contract says the bond, which matures in 2020,
The Wall Street Journal.Donald Trump The Turk and the PresidentThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardPresident Trump prides himself on one-on-one diplomacy, but too often it results in rash and damaging decisions like his abrupt order Sunday for U.S. troops to retreat from northern Syria. Turkish strongman
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion The Electric-Vehicle Subsidy RacketThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardFederal subsidies for electric vehicles are an income transfer to the affluent, and now comes news that significant numbers don’t qualify. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (Tigta)
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Beto O'Rourke's Progressive ToleranceThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalFormer Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, in his effort to become relevant in a crowded field of progressives, has outdone himself again. Last month he endorsed a mandatory gun buyback (“Hell yes, we’re
The Wall Street Journal.Opinion Whistleblowers and the Real Deep StateThe Wall Street Journal. - Kimberley A. StrasselHouse Democrats are plowing ahead with an impeachment effort inspired by accusations from an anonymous “whistleblower.” The lawmakers may allow the witness to testify anonymously, sources who themselves
