Wall Street Journal

Best of the Web Today: Gay? Yay!

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Straight news gives way to propaganda.


Deadly Disengagement

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
When Czech democracy needed defending, America was inattentive. The U.S. point man in Prague spent much of his time in New York.


The Dimon Principle

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
J.P. Morgan's failed trades may well have passed the Volcker rule.


California Ugly

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Soaking the rich isn't working on the left coast.


A Prize for Creative Dissent

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Three winners in the mold of Václav Havel.


Crovitz: From Nuremberg to Guantanamo

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
The 9/11 trial will have meaning if it leads to a clear public accounting of the terrorists' crimes.


Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO's First Step on Missile Defense

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
The initial elements of the United States' network of satellites, sensors and sea-based interceptors are already deployed to Europe.


O'Grady: Chevron's Ecuador Morass

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
The U.S. oil company charges that the $18 billion judgment against it was secured by fraud.


Yuval Porat: Iranians Have Democratic Values

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
New research reveals that Iranian society has a pro-liberal value structure deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime.


Herman Cain: We Need a Dollar as Good as Gold

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.


John Snow: 'Taxmaggedon' Is a Real Threat

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Next year's scheduled increases on dividends and capital gains will retard investment and derail the recovery.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Historian Victor Davis Hanson on the dilemma of affirmative action in a multiracial society.


No, Prime Minister

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
In "Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die," Andro Linklater describes the events that led to the assassination of the man who led Britain during the most dangerous days of the Napoleonic war. Jeffrey Collins reviews.


Lucette Lagnado: My Mom's American Liberation

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Defying centuries of deeply ingrained traditions about a woman's place took more courage than the speeches and epithets mouthed by generations of feminists.


Jacob Vigdor: North Carolina Social Issues Bellwether 2012

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
President Obama announced his support for gay marriage a day after the Tar Heel State banned it. Next up: Charlotte hosts this year's Democratic National Convention.


The President's Hit List

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
The attacks on Frank VanderSloot and political 'civility.'


Jenkins: Jamie Dimon Stubs Dodd-Frank's Toe

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
When banks have a reason to get smaller, expect the capable head of J.P. Morgan to lead the way.


H.R. McMaster: The Warrior's-Eye View of Afghanistan

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
The two-star general wrote the book on Vietnam and showed the way for the surge in Iraq. Now he's back from 20 months in Afghanistan—and says the war can be won.


The Mariana Pension Foreshock

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
A sign of bankruptcy to come if states don't reform retiree benefits.


The GOP's Census Takers

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:15
Republicans try to kill data collection that helps economic growth.


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