Issues

Gregory Wolfe: Art in a Fallen World

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
What drove the massive popularity of the late artist Thomas Kinkade?


16 plead not guilty in Amish hair attacks

CLEVELAND — Sixteen men and women pleaded not guilty Thursday in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio.

The 10 men and six women and their attorneys overflowed defense tables and the jury box as they entered the pleas before U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster in response ...

American Scene: Federal warrant issued for 1980s 'mountain man'

MONTANA

BILLINGS — The U.S. attorney's office in Montana has filed federal drug and weapons charges against one of the notorious "mountain men," a father-and-son duo convicted of kidnapping a world-class athlete in 1984, killing a would-be rescuer and eluding authorities for months.

An indictment unsealed Wednesday says Dan Nichols ...

Alan Blinder: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Insurance

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Rights are nice, but someone has to pay the bills. Elected officials, not the Supreme Court, should decide who.


Theodore Dalrymple: The Ugly Brutishness of Modern Britain

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
A demotic egalitariansim, allied with multiculturalism, has rendered civility passé.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Walter Russell Mead on how the college admissions process shows young Americans that they're surrounded by hypocritical weasels.


Mark Spitznagel: How the Fed Favors The 1%

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
The Fed doesn't expand the money supply by dropping cash from helicopters. It does so through capital transfers to the largest banks.


The EPA's Fracking Miracle

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Behold, the agency shows restraint on shale gas regulation.


France's Fairy-Tale Election

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
The candidates are debating everything but the real problems.


Noonan: America's Crisis of Character

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
The nation seems to be on the wrong track, and not just economically.


Senators want public co-sponsors on Kony resolution

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
On the eve of a day of action aimed at an African militia leader, a bipartisan group of senators is inviting Americans to sign on as co-sponsors of legislation condemning Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
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Best of the Web Today: 'There Was a Language Gap'

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
The Secret Service scandal brings a new twist to an old joke.


West avoids naming 'communists' in House

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) responds to criticism after he claimed a number of Democratic reps in Congress are Communists.
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To Russia, With Love

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
A vast amount of evidence confirms Hiss's guilt. So why does a belief in his innocence remain a hardy perennial in academic culture? Harvey Klehr reviews "Alger Hiss."


GOP House passes 'Buffett Rule' response

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $46 billion small business tax cut bill -- an election year measure that has virtually no chance of clearing the Democratic-controlled Senate or surviving a presidential veto.
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Small plane sinks into Gulf; no signal from pilot

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Coast Guard crews saw no signs Thursday that the pilot of a small plane survived when his Cessna went down in the Gulf of Mexico about three hours after two F-15 fighter jets tried to make contact with him.

Coast Guard Chief John Edwards said the plane ...

New Keystone route needs months of review

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
A proposed new route through Nebraska for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline will require six to nine months of review under the normal process conducted by state and federal officials, a Nebraska official said Thursday.
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Labels don't matter; issues do

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Ruben Navarrette says a survey shows that people with Latin American roots prefer to be identified with their country of origin, but when it comes to isses that affect all of them, they must unify
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Lessons learned from Rush and Hilary

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Speed is crucial in politics when it comes to responding to controversial remarks; too often the substance of issues is getting lost in the crossfire
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What's agents' future?

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-04-22 09:54
Dan Bongino, fmr. Secret Service agent, weighs in on the Secret Service investigation and the future of the agents involved.
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