Wall Street Journal

Elizabeth Scalia: The Vatican's Corrective to Liberal Catholics

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
A three-year inquiry ends with a sharp but measured assessment of unorthodox religious practice in the U.S.


Eric Rosengren: Money-Market Funds Still Need Reform

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
More than 60 prime funds held securities in Dexia in 2011, the same year the troubled French bank needed government support.


Paul Light: Perp Walks and the Broken Bureaucracy

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Between 1961 and 2009, the number of executive layers—or ranks by title—at an average cabinet-level agency jumped from seven to 18.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Joel Kotkin, Mark Schill and Ryan Streeter on the economic revival of the Midwest.


'Crucify Them'

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
An EPA bureaucrat lets the mask slip.


Magic Johnson

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
The flap over Fannie Mae's maestro and the Goldman board.


Noonan: A Bush League President

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Republicans are aggravated by Obama. They should cheer up. So is everyone else.


Best of the Web Today: Great Minds Think Alike

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
What's the difference between Jonathan Alter and Joe Conason?


The Spirit of Kellogg-Briand

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Obama's committee to abolish human evil.


Dial Williston for Jobs

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Would someone please answer if Governor Cuomo calls?


The Romney Opportunity

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Running on biography and the economy won't be enough.


Henninger: The Age of Indiscretion

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
GSA partiers in Vegas and Secret Service revelers in Cartagena make it clear that discretion is dead.


Karl Rove: I Was Wrong About Dick Cheney . . .

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
. . . and other lessons I learned from vetting vice-presidential candidates.


Dan Mitchell: How the Swiss 'Debt Brake' Tamed Government

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Behold, a good idea from Europe: Spending in Switzerland can't increase by more than trendline tax revenue.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Henry Hazlitt about the effects of taxation on investment, in "Economics in One Lesson," 1946.


Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can't explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours.


George Melloan: Congress Finally Takes on the Fed

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
The Fed's near-zero interest rate policy has punished savers without producing a strong recovery. Two bills in Congress would rein in the central bank.


Psychology and its Discontents

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
In a new book, emeritus professor of psychology at Harvard, Jerome Kagan, assesses the state of his discipline, arguing for important changes in attitude and practice. Carol Tavris reviews.


Best of the Web Today: '84 No More

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
Are presidential landslides impossible now?


The Arizona Faceoff

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
The Administration tries to nullify a state immigration statute.


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