Tag: Politics/International Relations
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Opinion | The President’s Men Don’t Go AWOL
[ad_1] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s disappearance story will strike anyone who has served in a senior administration role as bizarre. When you are entrusted with high-level public responsibilities, the expectation is that you are always available. Top officials like Mr. Austin occupy what is known as the PAS level—presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed. PAS officials don’t…
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Opinion | Christie’s Good Deed for the GOP
[ad_1] Now the race to be the alternative to Trump boils down to Haley and DeSantis. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | When Biden, Trump and DeSantis Agree on Something, Watch Out
[ad_1] What do you know? Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump agree on something. All three presidential candidates want to import pharmaceutical price controls from countries with socialized healthcare systems and outsource drug regulation to foreign governments. That’s the point of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada, which the Food and Drug Administration…
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Opinion | Blocking the Road Is Civil Terrorism
[ad_1] The anti-Israel demonstrators who have blocked traffic in major cities across the country know that their victims are decent people. There is little risk that the drivers who can’t get to their jobs, families and other obligations will run them over because those drivers are careful to avoid harming others and breaking the law—even…
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Opinion | The Donald Trump Ballot Problem
[ad_1] Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss the efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Next week we’ll ask, “A recent study suggests that worry about AI chatbots has been overblown, with American colleges not seeing an increase in overall cheating rates. But another study suggests that AI cheating is rampant, with…
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Opinion | Who’s Afraid of Nikki Haley?
[ad_1] The Iowa caucuses are on Monday, and suddenly Donald Trump’s campaign has made a notable turn. He’s aiming most of his advertising attacks not on Ron DeSantis but at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The former President is clearly afraid that a real alternative is gaining on him. Mr. Trump is running an…
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Opinion | For Country and for Yale
[ad_1] James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the…
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Opinion | Speaker Johnson’s Spending Deal
[ad_1] Can House Republicans govern in 2024—even a little—after the lost year of 2023? One modestly promising sign is the budget deal that House Speaker Mike Johnson struck with Democrats over the weekend on federal spending levels for fiscal 2024. The agreement largely hews to the debt-ceiling deal of last spring, with a few additional…
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Opinion | Why Taiwan’s Election Matters
[ad_1] Taiwan’s voters head to the polls Saturday in a presidential election that could echo far beyond its shores. The echoes will have more to do with the island’s commitment to its democracy than with the policies of any particular candidate. This is an unusually consequential election because the Taiwan Strait has become one of…
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Opinion | Republicans, Don’t Reject Border Progress
[ad_1] Congress is returning to Washington this week and must finish government spending bills before a deadline only weeks away. But the most important question for the country is whether President Biden and lawmakers will strike a deal combining weapons for Ukraine and Israel with policy changes on border security. Alas, some Republicans are sounding…
