Hulu’s ‘1619 Project’ series focuses on victimhood and ignores the achievements of African-Americans.
Publication: Wall Street Journal
Why Vaccine Skepticism Is Growing on the Right
Public-health officials imposed mandates and kept news of potential side effects under wraps.
China Floats a Trial Balloon Over Montana
Somehow a weather balloon ended up near U.S. missile bases. Sure.
Trump’s Best Foreign Policy Was Not Starting Any Wars
Not starting wars is perhaps a low bar, but that’s a reflection of the hawkishness of Mr. Trump’s predecessors and the foreign-policy establishment they slavishly followed. But Mr. Trump did more than simply keep the peace. He brokered the Abraham Accords.
How the Gas Stove in Your Kitchen Became a Symbol of Freedom
The left framed its latest crusade as a ‘right-wing culture war.’ We’ve seen this pattern many times.
Entrepreneurship Will Lift Minorities Up
Big government is a far heavier burden to those who start out without privileges and advantages.
The White House Covid Censorship Machine
Newly released emails show how officials coerce social-media companies to toe the government line.
The Tragedy of Kevin McCarthy
He’s very good at winning elections but doesn’t have what it takes to be a great legislative leader.
The Paul Ehrlich Apocalypse Is Back
His predictions have been famously wrong, but doom springs eternal.
Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants?
The virus appears to be evolving in ways that evade immunity.
Spare Us a Trump-Biden Rematch
Peggy Noonan: The president is likelier than his predecessor to be nominated, but could he be persuaded to bow out?
The Democratic Trump Tax-Return Dump
The Ways and Means Committee offers a flimsy pretext for disclosing confidential tax information.
The Jan. 6 Inquiry’s Not-So-Grand Finale
Criminal referrals of Trump add nothing but political complication.
Only the Voters Can Crush Trump
Peggy Noonan: What matters is that voters on the ground turn away from him. That is how it ends. Any other way and he says the swamp did him in. Voters have to show no, it was us, and we’re not the swamp.
The Urgency of Republicans’ Leaving Trump Behind
At some point, the Republican Party must make it clear that they won’t take another step with the former president and won’t support him if he is—for the third consecutive time—their party’s nominee.
Facts Ruin Narrative About Hate Crimes at HBCUs
Another story of American hate has ended with a whimper. Several months ago, American media was abuzz with the claim that white supremacists were targeting historically black colleges and universities with bomb threats. It turns out it was a single teenager.
Dinner at Hate for Donald Trump, Nick Fuentes and Kanye West
Gerald Baker: Publicly breaking bread with a white supremacist and a black fantasist has meaning and consequences. Part of it presumably just represents Mr. Trump’s limitless capacity for hearing people tell him things he wants to hear—whoever they are. Part of it surely is his perceived need for a continuing association with the ugliest elements of the American political spectrum.
Public Distrust of Health Officials Is Fauci’s Legacy
He presented his judgment as beyond reproach, while consistently flip-flopping and silencing dissent.
What Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried Have in Common
Both men cast themselves as saviors. Yet both deceived and exploited their supporters.
Trump or Biden? How About Neither?
Walking away from the presidency is like giving up the car keys because you’re too old to drive safely.
Oh, Trump Believes in Yesterday
Karl Rove: He applauds himself and promises more of the same. But voters want something new.
Trump’s Presidential Rerun
Last week’s elections showed that clinging to 2020 election denial, as Mr. Trump has, is a loser’s game. Republicans who took this line to win his endorsement nearly all lost. The country showed it wants to move on, but Mr. Trump refuses—perhaps because he can’t admit to himself that he was a loser. Mr. Trump will carry all of that baggage and more into a 2024 race.
Dems Can’t Count on Trump in 2024
They’re in trouble if GOP voters respond to the midterms by wising up and shunning his craziness.
Maybe Republicans Will Finally Learn
Peggy Noonan: If they aren’t serious about policy, they’ll nominate Trump in 2024 and lose a fourth straight election.