When revenue is declining anyway, it doesn’t help to alienate half your audience with political posturing.
Publication: Wall Street Journal
Jesse Jackson Turned the Civil-Rights Cause into an Industry
He boosted the fortunes of blacks who were already better off but he has done little to help the black poor. Worse, by advocating an ever-larger welfare state that creates incentives not to work and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, Mr. Jackson and his political allies have inadvertently helped to keep the black poor impoverished.
Old-Fashioned Conservatism Stirs in Spain
The Continent is experiencing a tentative revival of conservatism. Spain, which goes to the polls on July 23, could be the next country to do that most unusual of things these days: Elect a mainstream party of the center-right.
Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It
“Average global temperature” is a meaningless measure, and comparisons to 125,000 years ago are preposterous.
May Trump Soon Reach His Waterloo
Peggy Noonan: Political cults are never good, often rise, always pass. May it this time come sooner rather than later.
For the 2024 Presidential Race, Throw Out the Grumpy Old Men
Karl Rove: Our nation is deeply divided and angry; it faces tremendous challenges at home and dangers abroad. These are best confronted by energetic new leadership. Whichever party figures this out will have the upper hand next year.
Who Says Justice Thomas Benefited from Affirmative Action?
He graduated Yale Law School. So did Bill and Hillary Clinton. Only his credentials get questioned.
Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
Karl Rove: His plan for winning back the voters he lost in 2020? Insisting that he actually won.
Why Barack Obama Is Afraid of Tim Scott
The left doesn’t want voters exposed to black candidates with different political opinions.
The Root Causes of San Francisco’s Disorder
Covid lockdowns hastened the city’s decline, but it won’t recover as long as it clings to progressive obsessions.
The Indictment Can Only Hurt Trump
Peggy Noonan: Even his loyal supporters will understand that his mishandling of documents endangered U.S. security.
Newsom vs DeSantis: Bring It On
The U.S. needs a debate between the California and Florida Governors.
The Refuseniks Come for the Trump Case Judge
Judge Aileen Cannon gets the criminal document case, and she need not recuse herself.
The Self-Destructive Donald Trump
The facts alleged show that Mr. Trump has again played into the hands of his enemies. His actions were reckless, arrogant and remarkably self-destructive. This is the same Donald Trump they will get if they nominate him for a third time.
Canadian Wildfires Came from Rotten Luck
Not climate change.
A Destructive Trump Indictment
The greatest irony of the age of Trump is that for all his violating of democratic norms, his frenzied opponents have done and are doing their own considerable damage to democracy.
Biden and Trump Could Both Lose in 2024
Karl Rove: Early polls have often proved wrong, and both front-runners have big weaknesses.
DeSantis Has a Record of Winning
The media sneer that he’s ‘unlikable’ and distort his legislative achievements. Now that he’s entered the 2024 presidential election, here are the facts.
The Trump-Cuomo Covid Bromance
In 2020 they were mortal political enemies, but now they’re uniting to praise their performance in order to trash the far better Covid judgment and governance of Ron DeSantis in Florida.
Wasteful Government Doesn’t Have to Keep Growing
Rep. Kevin McCarthy: The Fiscal Responsibility Act is an important first step in relieving America of its crushing debt.
“Unelectability” Won’t Defeat Trump in 2024
Gerald Baker: For one thing, he won in 2016. And his opponents look weak for not simply calling him unfit to be president.
The Left’s War on the Rule of Law
There’s no greater threat to our form of government than attacks on the Supreme Court and the judiciary’s legitimacy.
Free Daniel Penny
How many wish that he had been in their subway car during a moment of danger?
CNN Brings Trump Back
Peggy Noonan: Well, that was a disaster, a politically historic one. It situated Donald Trump as the central figure of the 2024 presidential cycle, certainly more compelling than the incumbent or the other competitors. It will have an impact on the campaign’s trajectory.