Wall Street Journal

Peter Robinson: Four Words That Moved the World: 'Tear Down This Wall'

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
This may sound odd coming from a Reagan speechwriter, but for 25 years I have wondered: Did that Berlin address really matter?


A Cure for What Ails Us

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
The strongest defense of capitalism, argue two new books on the subject, is that it works. James Grant reviews.


The McMansion of Mirth

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Two new novels—Claire McMillan's "Gilded Age" and Francesca Segal's "The Innocents"—attempt an updating of Edith Wharton; Mark Haddon's "The Red House" follows a family's rancorous weeklong vacation in the British countryside. Sam Sacks reviews.


Politics by Other Means

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
What is the Obama Doctrine? David E. Sanger's "Confront and Conceal" and Daniel Klaidman's "Kill or Capture" offer in-depth analyses of President Obama's national security decisions.


Five Best: Andrew Nagorski

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
The former Newsweek correspondent on books by Americans who reported from Germany in the 1930s on the Nazis' growing menace.


Noonan: What's Changed After Wisconsin

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards.


Jeffrey Katz: Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
When one company controls nearly 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search market, it's time for serious changes.


Bernanke's Cliffhanger

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
The 2013 fiscal danger is a tax increase, not spending cuts.


A Bipartisan Tax Repeal

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Thirty-seven House Democrats join Republicans in voting to rescind ObamaCare's medical-devices levy.


A Bayou Legal Brawl

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Jindal says he'll sign bills limiting legacy drilling lawsuits.


Strassel: Scott Walker's Education Victory

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Union reforms have freed more money for classrooms in Wisconsin. And not only in Wisconsin.


David Gibson: U.S. Bishops Still Stonewall on Sex Abuse

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Ten years after the 'Dallas charter,' church leaders keep dodging accountability.


John Yoo: Obama, Drones and Thomas Aquinas

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Obama has avoided vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of their rights—by killing them.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves corrects New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about Estonia's economic performance.


Maen Rashid Areikat: The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
It is in Israel's vital interest to resolve the conflict and end the 45-year occupation.


Unruly Revolutionaries

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
How workers, bohemians, intellectuals and a psychedelic rock band united—and didn't—against the repressive Czechoslovak regime. Michael Weiss reviews "Worlds of Dissent."


Best of the Web Today: Noah's Arc

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
How to invoke old racist theories in defense of left-wing policies.


The Obama-Romney Jobs Debate

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Sorting through the facts about Massachusetts and Washington.


Best of the Web Today: We Are the 119%

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
MSNBC: My Schadenfreude Now Blankets Cable.


Hollande's First Step Backward

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-03-29 01:50
Lowering the retirement age puts France closer to another downgrade.


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