The progressive left has come to dominate New York politics, and it has derided the policies that cleaned up the streets. No surprise, crime has made a comeback. The problem isn’t guns, which New York strictly regulates. The problem is the lack of political will to keep criminals and the homeless mentally ill off the streets.
Publication: Wall Street Journal
This Isn’t Putin’s Inflation
The price rises began long before Russia invaded Ukraine and will be hard to stop.
Climate Change “Solutions” That Are Worse Than the Problems
The political assault on fossil fuels comes at the expense of the poor, peace, and the environment.
You’ll Miss Fossil Fuels When They’re Gone
Progressives may loathe oil and gas, but modern life doesn’t work without them.
Be Afraid of Nuclear War, Not Climate Change
Russia’s war in Ukraine shows that global warming has distracted us from more important threats.
A Leak to the Press Aims to Tarnish Justice Clarence Thomas
Mrs. Thomas’s text messages are embarrassing but amount to an outsider kibitzing and commiserating with the White House chief of staff. They are no reason for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the Trump Administration.
Environmental Alarmism Has Hardly Changed Since the 60s
Population then, climate change now—the scare tactics are the same and the predictions equally outlandish.
“I Covered My Face and I’m Ashamed”
Rebecca Sugar: I had refused masks before, forgoing a night at the opera and entrance into a store.. But in a moment of decision when convenience and conviction collided, I chose the former. Shame on me and on everyone who feels as I do and acts as I did. We are the reason that mask mandates still exist.
Biden Is Failing the Sanctions Test
The administration refused to impose sanctions in the lead-up to Mr. Putin’s invasion, naively trusting diplomacy. Yet even after Russian tanks rolled—and despite having months to prepare—the response has been slow, timid, hostage to feel-good “multilateralism” and unwilling to attack the real engine of the Russian economy: energy.
Biden Misses the Moment in His State of the Union Address
An anxious world is looking for American leadership in a dangerous new era. Instead Mr. Biden offered a rehash of his first-year domestic agenda that has brought him to his low political ebb. It’s dispiriting that a White House facing so many daunting challenges could come up with so little.
Will Canadian Democracy Survive Justin Trudeau?
His father invoked emergency powers in 1970—but that was against terrorists, not peaceful protesters.
Greenland’s Melting Ice Is No Cause for Climate-Change Panic
The annual loss has been decreasing in the past decade even as the globe continues to warm.
Freedom Isn’t Quite Dead — The Anglosphere Resists Covid Mandates
The acceptance of restrictions was difficult to watch. But even Canadians are fighting back now.
The Jan. 6 Committee Won’t Be Intimidated
Liz Cheney: Those who do not wish the truth of Jan. 6 to come out have predictably resorted to attacking the process—claiming it is tainted and political. Our hearings will show this charge to be wrong. We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and we will present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face.
Mike Pence’s Constitution
Mr. Pence stands out as a rare Republican these days willing to stand up to Mr. Trump’s disgraceful behavior after the election. Too many in the GOP seem to have lost their constitutional moorings in thrall to one man.
Spotify and Rogan Are the Real Adults
Mr. Rogan’s existence ought to make you feel better about our society, though. His success speaks to a desire by his large audience for contradictory, dissenting, off-kilter, even absurd views. Audiences seek controversy not just to open their minds, not just to annoy their betters, but because to hear impertinent, unapproved talk feels like freedom.
The U.S. Needs More Nuclear Weapons
As Russia and China build up their stockpiles, Washington is replacing weapons one-for-one.
Biden’s Supreme Court Risk
If he chooses a radical to replace Breyer, it will stimulate GOP turnout in November.
The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid
Vaccines were wasted on those who didn’t need them, and people who posed no risk lost jobs.
Omicron Is Spreading. Resistance Is Futile
It’s past time to shift focus from trying to stamp out all new infections to protecting the most vulnerable from severe disease directly through vaccination and other evidence-based measures and alleviating hospital staffing shortages. Ending mask mandates, de-emphasizing isolation and encouraging vaccination ought to be a compromise most of us can live with.
Biden Is Flailing, Literally and Figuratively
it’s obvious that when the president pounds on the lectern and flails his arms, the overstated drama deprives his communication of any authenticity. It seems as if there are a director’s cues in his text: “It’s time to raise your voice, Mr. President.”
Cancel Culture Targets Charity
Left-wing political activists want to destroy America’s long tradition of private philanthropy.
Hillary’s 2024 Election Comeback
A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024. Several circumstances have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.
Trump Isn’t Guilty of Incitement
Wall Street Journal (Flashback: Jan. 11, 2021)
Inflaming emotions isn’t a crime. The president didn’t mention violence, much less provoke it.