Opinion Journal

Assailing the Supreme Court

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
The legal left echoes Newt Gingrich on judicial power.


Palmer, Glen and Wolfowitz: How About Some World Governance Goals?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Progress against poverty requires measuring countries by the rule of law, judicial independence and free speech.


George Melloan: Federal Lending Is as Rotten as Federal Borrowing

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Uncle Sam has a loan for everyone, and many of them are likely to go bad.


Fouad Ajami: Obama and the Eisenhower Standard

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
When crafting foreign policy, the late president didn't 'give a damn how the election goes.'


Jay Nordlinger: The Anti-American Nobel Prize

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Norway's judges don't like the pro-freedom foreign policy of some U.S. presidents.


Scott and Silverman: The Alternative to Shareholder Class Actions

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
The SEC blocks arbitration without any explanation.


O'Grady: Kirchner Grabs the Central Bank

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Argentina's monetary policy is now subject to the fiscal demands of the government. Citizens can look forward to more inflation.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Mark Steyn on the extreme length of the ObamaCare law.


How a Dynasty Gets Started

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Yes, his son's life was eventful—the subject of films and TV series—but look at what the first Tudor, Henry VII, managed to do. Martin Rubin reviews "Winter King."


Best of the Web Today: Leonid Brezhnev Lives

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
The American left vows to defend the spoils of its revolutions.


Timothy Dolan: When the Archbishop Met the President

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Cardinal thought he heard Barack Obama pledge respect for the Catholic Church's rights of conscience. Then came the contraception coverage mandate.


Jenkins: Frank McCourt Steals Home

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Magic Johnson resets the bar on the value of an admired and buzz-worthy front man.


Steven Malanga: How Stockton, California Went Broke in Plain Sight

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
The new era of local government: Taxpayers can expect to pay more but get less.


Peter Berkowitz: How California's Colleges Indoctrinate Students

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
A new report on the UC system documents the plague of politicized classrooms. The problem is national in scope.


Obama's Missing Detainees

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Killing terrorists means never having to interrogate them.


An African Story

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Not all transitions on the continent are military coups.


To Live and Die in Tennessee

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Governor Haslam now endorses death-tax repeal.


Democracy's Quiet Champion

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
In "The Lady and the Peacock" Peter Popham paints a masterly portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi.


Five Best Books: Presidential Campaigns

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
Historian Lewis L. Gould on outstanding books about quests for the White House, from the 1896 McKinley-Bryan "Battle of the Standards" to the Clinton-Bush-Perot race in 1992.


The Endless Spending Spree

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2024-11-01 03:32
In "White House Burning," Simon Johnson and James Kwak analyze the U.S.'s fiscal problems and offer ways of reducing the national debt.


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