Wall Street Journal Opinion

12/10/2024

Litigation over federal permitting can waylay worthy projects by years and kill some altogether. The Supreme Court has the opportunity to help ease the logjam.

The Justices can rein in abuses of NEPA by lower courts in an important case.

12/10/2024

The World War II model can help revive and restore America’s ailing defense industrial base. It can also serve as a model for the Trump revolution in government as a whole, writes Arthur Herman

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy could emulate the ‘dollar-a-year men,’ who built the greatest military production machine the world has ever seen.

12/10/2024

Trump needs an offensive trade agenda, not merely tariffs to defend the old order. He should foster a new type of negotiation that capitalizes on the country’s innovative spirit and technological advantages, writes Robert B. Zoellick

An offensive agenda is necessary to promote U.S. interests in the digital economy.

12/10/2024

The message the jury acquittal sends is that to make Daniel Penny a criminal for trying to protect his fellow passengers would have transformed a human tragedy into a larger injustice.

A Manhattan jury rebukes the prosecution by progressive district attorney Alvin Bragg.

12/10/2024

Today it’s common to lament the state of American manhood, that men can’t be counted on. Yet when a good man does step forward, he is treated—literally, in New York—as a criminal, writes William McGurn

A jury delivers a measure of justice for the Marine turned Good Samaritan by finding him not guilty in the death of Jordan Neely.

12/10/2024

The French welcome the world to the reopening of the great Gothic church.

12/10/2024

On the latest episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, Paul Gigot says the biggest losers after the fall of Assad are Russia and Iran. https://trib.al/a3lT8Og

12/09/2024

America’s social-media culture is often debased, but it reached a new low this week with the online jubilation over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The moral perversity is a sign of the ugly times.

Leftists on social media blame the wrong culprit for healthcare dysfunction.

12/09/2024

Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health. Tunku Varadarajan interviews Bhattacharya.

Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health.

12/09/2024

The ideological assault on Judaism is also a proxy for an assault on America. It aims to check U.S. military and economic might, by creating another global power base: “legal might,” writes Gol Kalev

The tribunal targets the Jewish state but has its sights on America.

12/09/2024

For DOGE to be successful its north star must remain paring back the federal government’s missions—and reminding Americans that to diminish the government’s power, legislators will need to get off their duffs, writes Kimberley Strassel

For the effort to succeed, it will have to rethink the purpose of the federal government.

12/09/2024

The ideological range of Trump’s team could signal an openness to new ways of thinking, or government by whim, writes Gerard Baker

The ideological range could signal an openness to new ways of thinking, or government by whim.

12/09/2024

Kash Patel is a highly qualified nominee with the courage and integrity to reform the FBI and restore its once-sterling reputation with the American people, writes Robert C. O’Brien

I worked with him in the first Trump White House and saw his courage, discretion and capability.

12/09/2024

Ordinary Americans are held accountable when they defraud the IRS. Not the president’s son. Biden’s pardon is an insult to every honest taxpaying American, write Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley

Ordinary Americans are held accountable when they defraud the IRS. Not the president’s son.

12/09/2024

The Democrats’ Pennsylvania playbook should be a warning to everyone who cares about accurate, lawful elections, writes Ari Fleischer

Democrats would still be scheming if McCormick’s margin had been smaller.

12/09/2024

In an era when smoking was omnipresent, there was no controversy or stigma about giving ci******es as gracious presents. Merry Christmas to you, and good health in the new year, writes Bob Greene

A festive carton was a popular 20th-century Christmas present.

12/09/2024

A year into Milei’s rule, the reform effort is working, but time is running short, writes Mary Anastasia O’Grady

A year into his rule, the reform effort is working, but time is running short.