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President Joe Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House last week. Photo: Evan Vucci/Associated Press Amid a ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 22, 2021 6:36 pm ET A male lesser prairie chicken climbs ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in the White House, ...

Senate Democrats tried and failed Tuesday to move their version of H.R.1, the bill to impose a federal election code ...

Vermont’s socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders last week at the Capitol in Washington. Photo: Tom Williams/Zuma Press When he served ...

Photo: Keith Srakocic/Associated Press Congress is gearing up to pass new antitrust laws that scrap the consumer-welfare standard that has ...

Jon Rahm of Spain celebrates with the trophy after winning the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course on ...

Sen. Joe Manchin speaks during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill, June 10. Photo: Alex Wong/Associated Press Joe Manchin of ...

Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong, July 1, 2020. Photo: Vincent Yu/Associated Press The Committee to Project ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks on Covid-19 vaccination incentives in San Francisco, June 14. Photo: Nina Riggio/Associated Press California finally ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 18, 2021 6:27 pm ET Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 18, 2021 6:28 pm ET Photo: Getty Images The American Medical ...

There is much ruin in a city, to adapt Adam Smith, and Bill de Blasio has spent eight years trying ...

Photo: Pa/Zuma Press It seems that the wokesters who claim that they are “anti-racists” still can’t tolerate the memory of ...

The European Union agreed this week to begin removing restrictions on American tourists after banning them for more than a ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 17, 2021 6:37 pm ET A worker packs copies of Apple ...

It has been a challenge to navigate through the steady drizzle of media admiration for President Biden’s love-in with the ...

Bipartisanship for the good of the country is sometimes necessary in a democracy. But bipartisanship for its own sake, or ...

Kamala Harris has been home almost a week now from her first foreign trip as vice president. Even so, the ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 14, 2021 6:38 pm ET Afghan former interpreters for the U.S. ...

Central America’s biggest little country is again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Since June 2, Nicaraguan dictator ...

The Internal Revenue Service leak of taxpayer returns to left-leaning media outlet ProPublica is a prime example of why Congress ...

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference after attending the G-7 summit, Sunday, June 13, 2021. Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated ...

The loudmouth at the cocktail party was on a roll. “We need to move the Overton window about the Tullock ...

A copy of China’s state-run Global Times newspaper in Beijing, Jan. 21. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press Unfortunately the fact that ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 11, 2021 6:04 pm ET Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in 2020. ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 11, 2021 6:06 pm ET Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto A small group ...

Photo: mohamed abd el ghany/Reuters In the most predictable story of the Covid era, it turns out that federal relief ...

New IRS data compiled by research outfit Wirepoints illustrate the flight from high- to low-tax states. The chart above shows ...

The Labor Department’s consumer price index surged 5% year-over-year in May, the largest increase since August 2008 when oil was ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 10, 2021 5:59 pm ET Photo: Getty Images Congress has abandoned ...

The lesson of this week’s leak of billionaires’ tax returns isn’t that taxes are too low, the rich should pay ...

Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president-elect in 2008 when future White House colleague Rahm Emanuel posited what became a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) at a news conference last week in San Francisco. Photo: Eric Risberg/Associated Press As this ...

What’s the fun of being the world’s richest person if you can’t fashion a rocket and launch yourself into space? ...

Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attends a news conference about the results of the mid-term election, at the National ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 6, 2021 2:52 pm ET Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference at Winfield House in London, June 5. Photo: justin tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty ...

Postmaster General Louis Dejoy speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on legislative proposals in Washington, D.C., ...

A phone screen displays a Facebook logo with the official portrait of former President Donald Trump on the background. Photo: ...

Photo: Evan Vucci/Associated Press Professional media folk couldn’t live with former President Donald Trump’s policies. Now they can’t seem to ...

A student at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 12, 2015. Photo: shannon stapleton/Reuters Yale’s Latin motto is “Lux ...

Photo: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg News An especially pernicious habit of today’s Chinese Communist Party is its effort to suppress dissent beyond ...

Photo: dado ruvic/Reuters Remember the dollar? Jerome Powell and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve generally prefer to forget about ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., June 1. Photo: Justin L. Fowler/Associated Press ...

Here is an attempt to get at some of what’s behind conspiracism, the rising belief in and promotion of political ...

President Biden wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure, but there’s a contradiction at the heart of ...

An emerging reality of the current American presidency is that any normalcy Joe Biden may have promised was entirely fake. ...

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in ...

An AT&T store in San Rafael, Calif., May 17. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T is unloading its Warner Media properties ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board June 1, 2021 6:34 pm ET Photo: denis balibouse/Reuters President Biden rejoined ...

President Biden’s proposed budget would represent a sea change in American fiscal policy. If enacted, outlays over the next decade ...

You wouldn’t know it from Joe Biden’s statement, but his order to the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” efforts to ...

The State Department headquarters in Washington, March 9, 2009. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press American diplomats take an oath to ...

As the Texas legislative session drew near its end Sunday, lawmakers appeared set to pass a bill overhauling the state’s ...

As the Texas legislative session drew near its end Sunday, lawmakers appeared set to pass a bill overhauling the state’s ...

It’s impossible to know if Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has become yet another victim of psychiatric torture by the Cuban ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 28, 2021 6:37 pm ET The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ...

Bill Allen of Winthrop, Mass. served in the Army in Vietnam during 1971. On Wednesday he was among the volunteers ...

A smart phone screen displays a new policy on Covid-19 misinformation with a Facebook website in the background. Photo: andrew ...

As if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t bad enough, another sickness is breaking out across the world—a pandemic of anti-Semitism. Hatred ...

‘I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble,” Augustus Caesar said of his reign. ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 26, 2021 6:01 pm ET The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan ...

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 13. Photo: Evan Vucci/Associated Press Joe ...

Editor’s note: This week’s Future View discusses U.S. policy toward Israel and Hamas. Next week we’ll focus on student loans. ...

After my recent column on buying devices like iPhones but not really owning them, Mark Cuban, as he sometimes does, ...

Mexico’s June 6 elections may be the most important for the country since the end of 71-year one-party rule in ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 24, 2021 6:17 pm ET Yang Hengjun gestures in an unspecified ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters face off with a group of Israel supporters and police in a violent clash in Times Square on ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 23, 2021 5:44 pm ET The John Marshall Law School in ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her virtual State of the State address the state in Lansing, Mich., Jan. 27. Photo: Michigan ...

At first I thought it was a joke. I still do. A couple of years ago, there was a stir ...

One down, five to go. This week Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a reform bill letting doctors dispense prescribed ...

A gas pump offering ethanol or no ethanol gas in Des Moines, Iowa in 2020. Photo: brian snyder/Reuters Gasoline ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 13, 2021 6:41 pm ET Israel's Iron Dome aerial defence ...

Rep. Liz Cheney talks to reporters after House Republicans voted to remove her as conference chair in Washington, D.C., ...

Photo: thomas white/Reuters Inflation is surging as Washington prints and spends money at historic levels. Meanwhile Covid-related policies are ...

With deficits at levels not seen since World War II, the March $1.9 trillion stimulus only beginning to spend ...

A shop keeper sits outside a store whose facade was damaged in Holon near Tel Aviv on May 11 ...

Editor’s note: This week’s Future View is about whether “equity” demands the elimination of gifted-and-talented programs in schools. Next ...

The International Energy Agency, the world’s pre-eminent source of energy information for governments, has entered the political debate over ...

Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has an answer for all those hoping to heal and move on from the ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 10, 2021 6:25 pm ET People wear face masks to ...

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy in the East Room of the White House on May 10. ...

The economic damage from the cyber attack that shut down the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline—the country’s largest fuel pipeline—should be ...

President Joe Biden near the Calcasieu River on Thursday in Westlake, Louisiana. Photo: brendan smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images President Joe ...

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Johns Hopkins specialist Marty Makary. Image: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Covid-19 lockdowns ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and newly elected MP Jill Mortimer at Jacksons Wharf in Hartlepool, May 7. Photo: Owen ...

Steven Koonin in 2011. Photo: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg Amazon this year started its foray into politicized book-banning, pulling a ...

Taco Bell now hiring signs posted in window of local Taco Bell in Emporia, Kansas, May 5. Photo: Mark ...

Evidence that President Biden’s capital-gains tax increase is counterproductive keeps rolling in, and the latest is from the Penn ...

We’ve already criticized President Biden’s bewildering decision Wednesday to endorse a patent waiver for Covid vaccines and therapies. But ...

A conservative victory in Spain’s Madrid capital region Tuesday offers a simple lesson for democratic politicians everywhere: People like ...

While the pandemic has caused hundreds of thousands of premature deaths in the U.S., the larger long-term risk to ...

President Biden genuflected again to progressives on Wednesday by endorsing an intellectual property waiver at the World Trade Organization ...

Facebook reneged on its commitment to free expression when it banned Donald Trump “indefinitely” from the platform in the ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 4, 2021 6:40 pm ET The FBI headquarters building in ...

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney speaks with reporters following a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill on April 20. Photo: ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board May 2, 2021 5:04 pm ET Photo: Carol Kaelson/Associated Press Politics ...

At his first press conference and at last week’s address to Congress, I noticed (most didn’t) that President Biden ...

President Joe Biden speaks during a joint session of Congress, April 28. Photo: Melina Mara/Bloomberg News One of the ...

Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields during a 2019 game against Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois. Photo: Chris Sweda/Zuma Press After ...

Justice Samuel Alito Photo: Erin Schaff/Zuma Press Remember when you were told that a Supreme Court with six Republican-appointed ...

The propagandists who now dominate the establishment media have little interest in “fact-checking” Joe Biden as they did Donald ...

For more than a decade, Nashville, Tenn., has been one of America’s hippest and fastest-growing cities. Anchored by the ...

The progressive hits keep coming from the Biden Administration, and the latest is the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan ...

Editor’s note: This week’s Future View discusses the meaning of the Chauvin trial in Minnesota. Next week we’ll ask, ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board April 27, 2021 6:41 pm ET A teacher leads her students ...

When President Biden addresses Congress Wednesday evening, he won’t salute his predecessor but he should. Donald Trump’s raucous Presidency ...

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks in Penrith, Australia, May 18, 2020. Photo: Rick Rycroft/Associated Press China increasingly wields ...

If you need more evidence that ideology more than common sense is driving the Biden Presidency, look no further ...

Was President Biden trying to impress China’s Xi Jinping at Thursday’s climate pep rally by committing to reduce U.S. ...

Potomac Watch: New Hampshire’s secretary of state Bill Gardner blows up the claims of 'voter suppression.' Image: Charles Krupa/Associated ...

A portion of President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan would fund roads, bridges and railways, but one essential ...

The emptiest, most meaningless statement in American politics in our time is: “No one condones violence.” That weaselly default ...

A demonstrator holds up a sign as DC statehood activists gather in front of the Capitol on March 22, ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board April 21, 2021 6:46 pm ET Judge Amul Thapar speaks to ...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is led away in handcuffs after a jury found him guilty of all ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board April 20, 2021 8:20 pm ET Three wind turbines from the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s visit to the White House is being hailed in both countries as a major ...

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Jan. 27. Photo: ...

President Biden’s budget proposal includes record spending for nearly every corner of government, but there’s one big exception: national ...

Cryptocurrencies are a new force in financial markets, but their emergence is following an old pattern, for better and ...

We’re spelunking our way through the Biden Administration’s corporate-tax plan so you don’t have to, and how the plan ...

President Biden has handed Vice President Kamala Harris the job of fixing the mess at the U.S.-Mexico border, and ...

President Biden campaigned on unity and bipartisanship, but his governing philosophy has been the opposite. So now the White ...

By now it is clear that wokeness is a contagious malady. Amazon.com made headlines in February when it suddenly ...

The White House announced Tuesday that President Biden plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11. ...

When the Guggenheim Foundation announced the winners of its fellowships for 2021 last week, a name caught my eye. ...

During his Monday Oval Office meeting with Republican lawmakers to seek GOP support for his $2 trillion infrastructure bill, ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks in Council Chambers at City Hall, Oct. 21, 2020. Photo: Brian Cassella / Chicago ...

Most Americans haven’t noticed, but the world is becoming a more dangerous place by the day. The hottest current ...

Remember that time in 2019 when Hunter Biden’s longtime partner in a venture funded by the Chinese government told ...

Between the drive to eliminate the legislative filibuster and the campaign to add new states for partisan advantage, the ...

Cancel culture has a vaccine. Its name is Bleep. At the 2021 Game Developers Conference Showcase last month, Intel ...

If the 2008 financial panic became the Great Recession, let’s call the last year the Great Lockdown. As the ...

Republicans still have a Donald Trump problem, as the former President keeps reminding them. Consider his recent public comments ...

Sherman’s burning of Atlanta wasn’t enough punishment. To clean out any traces of racism 157 years later, Gen. Rob ...

One problem with government emergency actions is that the political class never wants them to end. Witness the Biden ...

The U.S. Navy announced Tuesday that the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group entered the South China Sea for “routine ...

Prosecutors promising easier bail and fewer criminal prosecutions have swept to power in several big cities in recent years, ...

The intervention by prominent American business executives into partisan cultural politics is a major event, and we wonder how ...

U.S. social media companies like Twitter that suppressed negative stories about Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign are still ...

As tens of millions are inoculated against Covid-19, officials in places as diverse as New York state, Israel and ...

Major League Baseball decided last week to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta after the Georgia Legislature passed ...

Amid the growing attacks on Asian-Americans, the recent crimes of Brandon Elliot and Robert Aaron Long bear particular attention. ...

The pantheon of great 20th-century economists includes John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter and Milton Friedman, among a ...

The Supreme Court on Monday handed Google a victory in its decade-long copyright feud with Oracle . Don’t be ...

When is a $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill not really about infrastructure? How about when $400 billion would go to ...

As New York’s Covid expatriates consider returning to the office, lawmakers in Albany should be shouting welcome home. Instead ...

The country reinvents itself from time to time. Reinvention is what Americans have instead of revolution, which Karl Marx ...

If you still doubt that progressive politics dominates nearly every institution of American public life and culture, look no ...

Only a year after federal health officials suggested Americans would be free to live their lives again, governments are ...

Corporate chieftains last year criticized Donald Trump for denying his re-election defeat. So it’s quite a spectacle to see ...

The Covid relief bill President Biden signed March 11 weighed in at almost $2 trillion. This week’s infrastructure bill ...

A Hong Kong court Thursday convicted Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee and five others of organizing or taking part in ...

The public debate on Georgia’s new voting law has become a stew of falsehood, propaganda and panic. Part of ...

Baseball is rooted in the records established by great players. Many claim that Joe DiMaggio’s 56-games hitting streak is ...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered her first setback of this Congress Wednesday as the drive to overturn an Iowa House ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday finally released its report on the origins of the coronavirus, and the result ...

“My predecessor. Oh God, I miss him.” So spoke Joe Biden Thursday in his first press conference as president. ...

The situation in Myanmar (aka Burma) is unraveling fast. Two months ago, after losing badly in national elections, the ...

Progressives are making a mistake by pushing Senate Democratic leaders to do away with the filibuster. If their agenda ...

Normally anyone who raises an instance of race discrimination will find a sympathetic ear in California Democratic Rep. Ted ...

It isn’t getting much attention, but Democrats have made clear in the last week that they are offering Republicans ...

A true inspiration for everyone considering a second career, President Joe Biden has embarked on his first executive job ...

In the weeks that surrounded President Biden’s inauguration, Chinese leaders waged an information campaign aimed at the U.S. Their ...

I had a relatively easy life as an American teenager in the 1960s. But it took many years to ...

Americans today are much better informed about Bangladesh than they were when Henry Kissinger described it (not without reason) ...

“Yellow journalism” means a sensationalized press. Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning ...

Well, well, look who’s breaking the internet. California’s net-neutrality law took effect Thursday, and the first casualties are low-income ...

President Biden finally held a formal press conference on Thursday, and the answers pulled back the curtain on how ...

Democrats have increasingly adopted Bernie Sanders’s ideas about economic policy. If only they’d instead take the Vermont socialist seriously ...

More than 250 people have been killed by government security forces in Myanmar since a Feb. 1 military coup. ...

Moves by Republican legislators to reform state election laws are drawing incendiary accusations from Democrats. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate ...

Since last March politicians have somehow managed to get away with shutting down heavily indebted economies and then borrowing ...

Eric Talley was a latecomer to law enforcement, joining the Boulder Police Department at age 40 after a career ...

Editor’s note: This week’s Future View discusses the trend of colleges holding extra graduation ceremonies exclusive to students of ...

There’s a contemporary political compulsion to immediately inject a horrific shooting into ongoing debates about types of weapons and ...

The refrain is all too familiar: Widening income inequality is a fatal flaw in capitalism and an “existential” threat ...

Perhaps you’ve heard that a universal basic income is an idea whose time has come. Liberals are hyping the ...

Senior Judge Laurence Silberman of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals knows how to court media outrage. His gun-control ...

Your humble correspondent, a little sore after playing outside with the kids on a sunny weekend, is feeling even ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Brooke Warner says her business is “exploding.” A literary coach based in Berkeley, Calif., she teaches ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board March 21, 2021 5:07 pm ET Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media following talks between the U.S. and China in Anchorage, Alaska, ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Democrats left no liberal interest group behind in their $1.9 trillion spending bill this month. That ...

I have covered three popes and joined countless papal voyages around the world. These journeys are thoughtfully planned months, ...

It means more than nothing that President Biden recently could not come up with the name of the defense ...

By Michael Taube March 17, 2021 6:02 pm ET Signage outside the Gannett Co. headquarters in McLean, Va., Aug. ...

‘The legislative filibuster is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House,” one of my colleagues said ...

Editor’s note: To mark the first anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic in America, this week’s Future View discusses how ...

President Biden is not throwing away Donald Trump’s immigration policy. He’s throwing away the border policy of every president ...

The biggest question in Washington for the next two years isn’t about a single policy or whether President Biden ...

BEIJING: The Chinese government has asked Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to dispose of its media assets, the Wall Street Journal ...

Selling the Covid relief package on Jan. 22, Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted, “@POTUS and I are taking immediate ...

President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor during his remarks before signing an Executive Order on the economy, Feb. 24. ...

The future of the U.S. Senate—and all near-term domestic policy—is increasingly coming down to one simple question: Does West ...

Financial Secretary of Hong Kong Paul Chan Mo-po delivers the budget for fiscal year 2020-2021 at the Legislative Council ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Good luck building in Philadelphia without paying off Big Labor. The building-trades unions have maintained a ...

In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed strict lockdown policies—many still in ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.). Photo: Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Why did so many senior officials quit New York state’s ...

By Ted Rall March 4, 2021 6:40 pm ET Maricopa County elections officials count ballots in Phoenix, Nov. 4, ...

Next week the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, or CHEA, which scrutinizes other accrediting organizations, will consider whether it ...

Top advisers to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo influenced state health officials to remove data from a public report ...

The Obama Administration teamed up with green groups to harass many small businesses and private land owners, and the ...

March 4, 2021 12:47 pm ET Among construction firms in the NFIB survey, 35% cited the shortage of qualified ...

Before the study of history in the United States became a branch of fiction, most schoolchildren encountered Louis XIV ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board March 3, 2021 6:26 pm ET A demonstrator holding a sign ...

Photo: Archivo/Zuma Press Is the Republican Party the one building the “coalition of the ascendant” as it draws support ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 18. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Yes, history repeats itself, especially ...

Civil right leader and advisor to many U.S. presidents Vernon Jordan in 2011 Photo: Andy Kropa/Getty Images The giants ...

Donald Trump was America’s first post-Depression presidential nominee to make protectionism a major plank of his platform. During the ...

Presidents Obama, Trump and now Biden have all vowed to reduce the amount of attention the America pays to ...

Will Sen. Joe Manchin nix President Biden’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services? In a ...

Academic freedom is in crisis on American campuses. Last year, the National Association of Scholars recorded 65 instances of ...

Some 3,500 miles from Washington, on the African archipelago of Cape Verde, the Justice Department is in a struggle ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Recently I found myself with time on my hands, and I began to think about them. ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Feb. 26, 2021 6:26 pm ET Solar panels on rooftops of ...

Friends of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold posters bearing his picture in front of Saudi Arabia Istanbul Consulate, ...

The Democratic House majority this week put on a bold demonstration of its newest governing strategy—one it continues to ...

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Imagine if a pair of Donald Trump’s allies in Congress had sent a letter to cable ...

Old Democratic friends have been warning President Joe Biden not to inflict his supersized stimulus plan on a growing ...

For the poor souls still living under the world’s remaining communist dictatorships in places like China and Cuba, a ...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 18. Photo: ...

MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 28: A pedestrian walks past the Leading Insurance Agency, which offers plans under the Affordable ...

Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at a press conference at Danbury City Hall in Danbury, Oct. 28, 2020. Photo: Brad ...

You’d think the Texas blackouts would trigger some soul-searching about the vulnerability of America’s electrical grid. Not in today’s ...

Perhaps you’ve heard that the $1.9 trillion House spending bill is meant to provide “urgent” and “emergency” relief. But ...

President Biden laid down a climate marker in his inaugural address: “A cry for survival comes from the planet ...

Now that voters have turned the authoritarian GOP out of the executive branch and Congress, Americans should expect the ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell makes his semiannual appearance on Capitol Hill this week. Investors have a few questions, ...

At last, Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci and CNN are no longer presenting New York Democrat Andrew Cuomo as the ...

The Biden White House is pointing to polls showing that its $1.9 trillion spending bill is popular, and the ...

Toronto If you’re impatient with the pace of Covid-19 vaccine distribution in the U.S., count your blessings. At least ...

Partisans on both sides during the Trump Presidency used immigration to bludgeon each other, but President Biden has a ...

Donald Trump launched a personal attack on Mitch McConnell this week after the Senate GOP leader called the former ...

I meant to talk about something else this week, but my thoughts keep circling back to Rush Limbaugh. His ...

After Trump, the deluge. Ask Andrew Cuomo. During the pandemic, the New York governor’s daily coronavirus briefings made him ...

If any media folk are still interested in “fact-checking” presidents after the Trump era, they’ll have plenty of fodder ...

A familiar voice in American media and politics has gone quiet. Rush Limbaugh, the most listened-to radio host in ...

House Democrats have made election “reform” their top legislative priority. House Resolution 1, styled the For the People Act, ...

The Senate failed Saturday to convict Donald Trump on the single House impeachment article of inciting an insurrection, but ...

Three months ago New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was awarded an Emmy for “his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Does unrestrained federal spending have any economic cost? Can federal debt keep climbing to be larger than the entire ...

Voters might have thought that suppression of news and commentary about Biden family influence peddling ended with the election. ...

The Biden team is combing the books for Trump policies to undo, and one target may be modest regulations ...

Progressives like to say these days that the Biden Administration is bringing California’s values to the rest of America, ...

These days “follow the science” has become a cliché especially popular with government leaders. But when it comes to ...

Governors—especially from Democratic states—have been pleading revenue poverty since the pandemic began. But as we approach the anniversary of ...

Whether a former President ought to be subject to an impeachment trial is a matter of constitutional debate. Whether ...

Perhaps wishing to change the subject from its appalling failure to educate minority students, the San Francisco school board ...

Vice President Joe Biden welcomed the newly elected president of Yemen to the White House in 2012 as the ...

New York The New York Stock Exchange belongs in New York. If Albany lawmakers get their way, however, the ...

Has an era of American mediocrity begun? In January the College Board announced it would eliminate the essay portion ...

When developed countries support equality before the law and property rights in poor countries, the left labels them imperialists. ...

Changing the rules of a game right before it’s played normally inspires skepticism, if not cynicism. But a new ...

The State Department told Congress Friday that it will reverse the Trump Administration’s designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels as ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks from the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 29. Photo: Rod ...

A large poster announces new prices inside the Walmart pharmacy in Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 22, 2006. Photo: robert sullivan/Agence ...

Dec. 28, 2020 5:54 pm ET Photo: Getty Images Ashley Fetters reporting for Politico, Dec. 26: Books by the ...

Both are highly connected, Mr. Swalwell as a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Mr. Biden as the ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 28, 2020 6:16 pm ET Yasuhide Nakayama in 2018. Photo: ...

Police surround Omar Sheikh as he comes out of a court in Karachi, Pakistan, March 29, 2002. Photo: aamir ...

Sixth-grade students work on a reading comprehension lesson in Wesley Chapel, Fla., Nov. 20. Photo: Douglas R. Clifford/Zuma Press ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 27, 2020 4:17 pm ET Edward Snowden is displayed on ...

Nominee for Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, speaks at the Queen theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, Del. ...

Police are struggling to solve murders as homicides rise and the Covid-19 pandemic creates new challenges to cracking cases.Homicides ...

Andrew Weissmann in 2003. Photo: jeff mitchell/Reuters President Trump’s flurry of pardons and grants of clemency this week are ...

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By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 23, 2020 6:14 pm ET The United States Embassy, left, ...

In 2020 scientific publications have leapt into the political fray. Scientific American gave its first ever Presidential endorsement to ...

Facebook and Google app icons. (Image Credit: Reuters)10 states accused Google of working with Facebook in an unlawful manner ...

Operation Warp Speed logistics chief Gen. Gustave Perna on Nov. 19. Photo: Chris Kleponis/Zuma Press ‘I failed, nobody else ...

Dusk falls over the Capitol on Dec. 21. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press No sooner had Congress passed Covid relief ...

On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union, gave his farewell speech and more than seven ...

Christian worshippers sing hymns to voice their opposition to an extradition law in Hong Kong, June 14, 2019. Photo: ...

America has been paralyzed by death and fear for nearly a year, and the politicization of the pandemic has ...

In a telephone interview last week I asked Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, one of the leaders of the dissident ...

Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks during a news conference in Providence, R.I., March 22. Photo: Kris Craig/Associated Press A report ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 20, 2020 5:49 pm ET President Donald Trump departs the ...

Congress is close to agreement on another trillion-dollar Covid-19 relief bill, but please don’t call this economic stimulus. With ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 18, 2020 6:31 pm ET The SolarWinds headquarters in Austin. ...

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President-elect Biden announces the nomination of Pete Buttigieg for transportation secretary in Wilmington, Del., Dec. 16. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Associated ...

Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi addresses in Patna, India, Oct. 28. Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui/Associated Press For weeks India ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 17, 2020 6:37 pm ET Members of the United States ...

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By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 16, 2020 6:27 pm ET President of Turkey Recep Tayyip ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 16, 2020 6:34 pm ET Maine Sen. Angus King speaks ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a virtual news conference on Dec. 16. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News Federal ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) on Capitol Hill in Washington in June. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Zuma Press Rep. Eric Swalwell ...

Charlie Baker has become my model of a pandemic governor. Twice I’ve commended him for admitting, as early as ...

European Union flags outside the Berlaymont building near a mural reading 'The Future Is Europe' in Brussels, Dec. 15. ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 14, 2020 8:06 pm ET The Bhutanese and Israeli ambassadors ...

Democrats accuse President Trump of politicizing the Federal Reserve, and sometimes not without cause. But look who’s now demanding ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 14, 2020 8:09 pm ET Attorney General William Barr speaks ...

Registered nurses Chelsea Buchanan, left, and Debbie Ford take a selfie holding up their ID badges where a small ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 13, 2020 5:26 pm ET Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks ...

By Scott Gottlieb Dec. 13, 2020 6:01 pm ET A researcher tests possible Covid-19 antibodies in Indianapolis, May. Photo: ...

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Saturday. Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated ...

An opinion essay criticizing Jill Biden for using the honorific “Dr.” has reportedly resulted in its author having his ...

Crescent Dunes solar plant in Nevada. Photo: United States Department of Energy/SolarReserve Move over, Solyndra. Another green boondoggle from ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 11, 2020 6:42 pm ET Jimmy Lai pauses during an ...

A waiter moves between tables outside of a restaurant in Manhattan, Dec. 11. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images New York’s ...

Andrew Colborn says Netflix ruined his life. As a sheriff’s sergeant, he helped convict a murderer in 2007. Eight ...