- Biden’s Trend Line Points DownwardVoters don’t miss Trump, but they miss 2019, and they worry about crime, immigration and inflation. ... read more
- How to Reform Section 702—and How Not ToOur Democratic colleagues propose requiring court approval to examine data on a U.S. person. That would end up diminishing, not protecting, privacy. ... read more
- DeSantis Keeps Dodging on UkraineHis trimming looks weak next to Nikki Haley’s conviction on the GOP debate stage. ... read more
- Wallet, Keys, Cellphone… Narcan?New York City tells citizens to get equipped with overdose medication. ... read more
- Biden and Trump Woo the UAW in MichiganA study of U.S. manufacturing decline shows the risks of too-costly union contracts. ... read more
- Tolstoy vs. Trump in 2024GOP candidates need to tend to the needs of their family—the party’s voting base. ... read more
- Unesco Writes Jews Out of Ancient JerichoThe Palestinians have literally paved over this important historic site. ... read more
- $11 Billion for Defense Is About to VanishMy Fires Act would use the money against the Chinese threat. ... read more
- How Ibram X. Kendi Broke Boston UniversityThe university totally committed itself to his ideology. It hasn’t backed off despite the scandal. ... read more
- Africa Needs Accountable Leaders, Not ReparationsGhana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo ignores that the slave trade had willing agents on both sides. ... read more
- Notable & Quotable: Trump Rallies for 2024‘A victory by the other side might well mean the end of the United States.’ ... read more
- Florida Man Attacks Trump-Biden Spending SpreeRon DeSantis promotes an alternative to Washington’s debt binge. ... read more
- Europe Learns Its Electric Cars Will Be Made in ChinaThe EU can’t afford the subsidies that the U.S. can, and it has more free-market scruples. ... read more
- Giving Donald Trump a PassThe GOP candidates largely left the front-runner off the hook. ... read more
- Lina Khan Has a Weak Case Against AmazonThe FTC Chair defines monopoly down to harpoon the giant retailer with antitrust suit. ... read more
- The Retail Theft Rampage Gets WorseTarget closes nine stores in four states because of crime, as looters run riot in Philadelphia. ... read more
- China’s Boycott BackfiresIn Geneva, a humiliation for China’s attempt to silence critics abroad. ... read more
- Why Indians Can’t Stand Justin TrudeauHe’s seen as a lightweight and a panderer, which heightens the outrage over his accusations. ... read more
- Hunter Biden May Face a Big Tax BillIf he willfully filed a false return, the statute of limitations isn’t enough to get him off the hook. ... read more
- Profits and Losses Don’t Matter at the Federal ReserveIt doesn’t operate like a regular bank. Its job is to adjust interest rates to meet its dual mandate. ... read more
- Bidens and ChinaWho else can invest alongside financial heavyweights by putting up so little equity? ... read more
- If There’s a Government Shutdown, Will Anyone Notice?Most federal employees already work from home. Let’s make their absence from Washington permanent. ... read more
- Matt Gaetz and the House Chaos CaucusForcing a shutdown would destroy what little bargaining power the GOP has—and its slim majority. ... read more
- The Best and Worst Dressed SenatorsSlovenly John Fetterman could use some style tips from dapper Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. ... read more
- Across the Border and Into the ParksOfficials plan to house migrants at the Gateway National Recreation Area. ... read more
- Elon Musk’s Twitter Rebranding and Other UpdatesStudents debate the success and competition of the social-media platform currently known as X. ... read more
- The Biden FCC’s Plan to Brake 5GRosenworcel wants to reimpose net-neutrality that are illegal and unnecessary. ... read more
- Biden’s Organ Transplant RejectionMedicare rations blood tests to save money, but it will hurt patients. ... read more
- The Real Donald Trump Live on Truth SocialHere’s what voters can look forward to if he’s nominated again. ... read more
- Princeton Offers a Tuition BreakThe university makes it more affordable for students to attend. ... read more
- Ukraine Takes On CorruptionAmid public outrage at home and criticism from the West, leaders in Kyiv are getting serious. ... read more
- On Marriage, an Economist Bravely States the ObviousMelissa Kearney worried about being pigeonholed as she wrote ‘The Two-Parent Privilege.’ ... read more
- Biden’s Social-Media Censorship Harms Us AllThe First Amendment protects the right to hear alternative views, not merely to express them. ... read more
- The FDA’s See-No-Data ApproachA study showed promise in treating a rare disease. The agency wouldn’t even look at the results. ... read more
- The United Auto Workers vs. EVsJoe Biden may not be senile, but America’s auto-manufacturing and climate-change policies certainly are. ... read more
- If You Think Socialism Is Unpopular Now…What happens when ideological signals are finally recognized as empty and without virtue? ... read more
- America Is Desperate for a New BeginningNearly two-thirds of voters believe the system is ‘broken’ if it’s Trump vs. Biden. ... read more
- Poland Won’t Stand for Lectures on UkraineWe’ve been a reliable ally and you can’t erase that. ... read more
- Political Lawfare May Get ‘Hobbesian’The District of Columbia Attorney General threatens state sovereignty at the bidding of the left. ... read more
- Bob Menendez Toughs Out His IndictmentWhy are Democrats demanding that he resign without a trial? ... read more
- Another Round of Debt ForgivenessA new CFPB rule would make it easier to refuse to pay medical bills. ... read more
- Time for Zombie ReaganomicsCandidates for the 2024 presidential nomination should dust off his Oct. 24, 1980, speech for Wednesday’s debate. ... read more
- The Rules-Based International Order Is Quietly DisintegratingIt hasn’t been this threatened since the 1930s. ... read more
- ‘Happy Days’ Is Here AgainAs strange as it seems, my son is obsessed with the Fonz. ... read more
- China Prepares to Crack Down on ‘Hurt Feelings’The proposed law is Xi Jinping’s latest effort to codify ‘the party’s policies and the people’s will.’ ... read more
- Loretta Lynn and My Sister-in-LawMy brother Jack made his own luck 32 years ago. ... read more
- Jimmy Lai’s 1,000 Prison DaysThe publisher’s bravery has exposed China’s false promises to Hong Kong. ... read more
- The GOP Can’t Afford to Indulge PopulismConservatives want to unite the country, while politicians like Trump seek only to stoke grievance. ... read more
- The New Moral Order Is Already CrumblingGlobalism, climate-change alarmism and cultural self-annihilation have all come under serious challenge. ... read more
- Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, Grocery MogulWill the progressive mayor be willing to stop shoplifting at his government-run stores? ... read more
- California Wants to Know Your EmissionsSacramento moves to enforce CO2 disclosures on companies nationwide if they do business in the state. ... read more
- Florida Takes the Classic Learning TestCould this be a first step in breaking the SAT and ACT duopoly? ... read more
- California’s Smash-and-Grab PoliticsThieves are a menace. So are Sacramento officials who are attempting to raid the state’s businesses. ... read more
- Biden Does Big Labor’s Bidding in MexicoTrade Representative Katherine Tai engages in union activism south of the border. ... read more
- Why Is Anxiety Rising?Fears of extinction, Covid, socializing and a second Trump term are all at play. ... read more
- Will Bob Menendez Keep His Pension?A conviction wouldn’t be enough under current law to withhold it. A new bill seeks to change that. ... read more
- The SEC Wants to Spy on Your PortfolioThe Consolidated Audit Trail will record your Social Security number and all your stock trades. ... read more
- School Choice in Texas: the Easy or Hard WayLawmakers can pass a bill during the special session—or face the voters later. ... read more
- There’s a High in the Middle of OhioA new Dayton factory will produce flying cars that can go 200 miles an hour. ... read more
- The Children Win in North CarolinaIt’s the tenth state to give school choice to all its citizens. ... read more
- The Harassment of Elon MuskThe Tesla CEO faces a remarkable number of government probes. ... read more
- KIPP Gets Children Into CollegeMore evidence that charter schools lift student performance. ... read more
- Robert Menendez and the Gold BarsNew Jersey’s senior Senator is indicted again for bribery and fraud. ... read more
- Medicare’s Organ Transplant Face PlantPatients and doctors explain the damage from denying crucial blood tests in the name of saving money. ... read more
- Banning Gas Vehicles Isn’t PopularThe House votes to override California’s onerous EV mandates. ... read more
- A Win for ‘Champions of Children’A timely judicial reminder that governments do not own our kids. ... read more
- A Law That Isn’t Red or Blue—and Sure Isn’t GreenBoth parties misrepresent the Inflation Reduction Act to Americans to score political points. ... read more
- Bidenomics Is Keynesianism Without ConstraintsDeficit spending to cure a recession is temporary. Now it’s permanent and justified by ‘emergencies.’ ... read more
- When a Venture Capitalist Met a ScholarBill Helman’s and Roland Fryer’s real-world experiment tests whether capitalism can be harnessed to improve income mobility. ... read more
- ProPublica Buries Its Clarence Thomas NewsThe outlet’s latest hit piece unwittingly debunks its own political narrative about the Supreme Court justice. ... read more
- Mayor Eric Johnson: America’s Cities Need Republicans, and I’m Becoming OneWhile Dallas has thrived, elsewhere Democratic policies have exacerbated crime and homelessness. ... read more
- The Great Northeast Wind BailoutThe politicians are already demanding more green corporate welfare. ... read more
- A Salute to Rupert MurdochThe newsman invested in the Journal and saved it from decline. ... read more
- Britain Blinks on Net-Zero Climate MandatesEconomic and scientific realities catch up with a costly political fad. ... read more
- A Union Railroad Job in CongressA Senate bill does more to boost union jobs than to promote safety. ... read more
- The Senator’s Shorts and America’s DeclineWe want to be respected but no longer think we need to be respectable. ... read more
- Don’t Throw the Blockchain Out With the BathwaterRegulators conflate cryptocurrency with the underlying technology. That will stifle innovation and American competitiveness. ... read more
- Nagorno-Karabakh and the Myths of International LawTribalism runs deep, and wars over land aren’t limited to backward or totalitarian nations. ... read more
- I’m Nearly 87, but Don’t Call Me ‘Old Man’Society needs to retire its hurtful stereotypes of elderly people. ... read more
- The Biden-Schumer Military-Promotion BlockadeThey, not Tommy Tuberville, endanger readiness for the sake of abortion politics. ... read more
- Notable & Quotable: 41 and 46‘Biden may . . . be running a reelection strategy similar to the one that failed President George H.W. Bush.’ ... read more
- Aim for Yom Kippur, ‘if Not Higher’A treatment of an old Jewish tale offers a model of faith during the Days of Awe. ... read more
- What Exactly Happens at the Center for Antiracist Research?A Boston Globe report raises troubling questions. ... read more
- Wall Street and the Fed Are Both Wrong on Interest RatesThe central bank shouldn’t treat growth as a problem, but there’s reason to think easing off won’t help GDP. ... read more
- UAW Strike May Hasten Detroit’s DeclineDecades of regulations and subsidies have left the Big Three uncompetitive in the age of electric cars. ... read more
- Why Is Donald Trump Afraid to Debate?He’s ducking exchanges with his competitors who could challenge his record and platform. ... read more
- The Supposed Misconduct of Montana’s Attorney GeneralThe legal guild goes after Austin Knudsen for doing his job. ... read more
- Merrick Garland Ducks the Hunter Biden QuestionsThe AG demonstrates why appointing a special counsel was a bad idea. ... read more
- The Federal Reserve’s Dotted Line on Interest RatesPowell stands pat on rates but signals tighter money for longer. ... read more
- America in the Age of ‘Retcon’Rewriting the past to suit the fashions of the present is harmless in fiction but a danger in real life. ... read more
- AI Can Do as Bad a Job as Your PR DepartmentNews releases these days are full of meaningless nothingisms, which a robot could easily produce. ... read more
- Who Killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar?Justin Trudeau accuses the Indian government. For geopolitical reasons, we may not want to know. ... read more
- Iowa Could Open Up the 2024 GOP PrimaryTrump may think the presidential nomination is in the bag, but even he knows falling short there means trouble. ... read more
- I Left My iPad in San FranciscoOnly a few hours into our visit, my wife and I experienced a smash-and-grab. ... read more
- Is Seattle Ready to Stop Deteriorating?Glimmers of hope amid a bloody era of chaos. ... read more
- The Democrats’ Deal With the DevilThe party struck a bargain in 2020 that put Biden and them in power. It will be harder this time. ... read more
- Ukraine’s Judges Shoot Down DronesYuriy Chumak, a member of the Supreme Court, patrols the skies with a tablet and machine guns. ... read more
- Trump Isn’t Alone in Gaining From IndictmentBenjamin Netanyahu’s standing in Israeli polls shot up as soon as he was under investigation. ... read more
- Libya’s Flood Has Lessons for UsWhen civil order and governance break down, the result can be catastrophic. ... read more
- What About the Next American Hostages?After paying $6 billion to Iran, how will Biden prevent future ransom grabs? ... read more