Wall Street Journal Opinion

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Opinion & Commentary from The Wall Street Journal.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · Jul 17

While the democratic socialist front-runner to be New York’s next mayor isn’t going to establish a caliphate on the Hudson, we shouldn’t be dismissive of Mamdani’s unhealthy obsession with Israel, writes @dhume on.wsj.com/3GvkjUv

WSJopinion's tweet card. He won’t impose Shariah on New York, but his views give plenty of reason for legitimate concern.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 16 m

Are California’s cage-free chickens coming home to roost? The Justice Department last week filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s cage-free egg mandate, which increases omelette prices in the state and scrambles interstate commerce. on.wsj.com/4m131gP

WSJopinion's tweet card. The Justice Department sues to block the Golden State’s cage-free hen mandate.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 36 m

California’s bullet train is a model of progressive governance. Trump gave Newsom a perfect opportunity to cut his losses and shift blame. Why didn’t he take it? asks Allysia Finley on.wsj.com/44XNR54

WSJopinion's tweet card. Trump gave Newsom a perfect opportunity to cut his losses and shift blame. Why didn’t he take it?

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 56 m

Younger potential leaders from both parties with 2028 ambitions should be positioning themselves as alternatives to Trump-and-Biden-omics, writes Robert B. Zoellick on.wsj.com/4f3qoUT

WSJopinion's tweet card. Looking past the debt and protectionism of the Trump-Biden era to an age of growth and openness.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 1 h

The GOP budget bill takes a step toward making energy reliable again by allowing supply and demand to drive energy markets, untangled by mandates and subsidies. on.wsj.com/40WbUAg

WSJopinion's tweet card. Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment..

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 2 h

On the latest episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, @katebachwsj explains why Donald Trump will be sending more long-range missiles to Ukraine. on.wsj.com/4nR9QDs

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 2 h

Gerrymanders we always have with us, but sometimes they boomerang in unexpected ways. Consider how Texas Republicans are exploiting a Democratic lawsuit and the Voting Rights Act to pad their chances of retaining their House majority in 2026. on.wsj.com/3GM6NMj

WSJopinion's tweet card. Texas Republicans want to use an outdated racial test to pad their House majority. Democrats gave them the opening.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 3 h

The view from the front lines of the American defense-tech revolution deserves more attention. Christian Brose suggests that U.S. military vulnerability is both sobering and solvable, writes @katebachwsj on.wsj.com/3IWG5B2

WSJopinion's tweet card. Anduril Industries builds ‘attritable’ aircraft like autonomous fighter jets, which are cheaper to lose than regular airplanes.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 5 h

Mandela’s legacy no longer guides South Africa. It blinds the world to the menace the ANC has become. And it’s in that blind spot that all the risk lies, writes @maxmeizlish on.wsj.com/4kLjuET

WSJopinion's tweet card. While Washington acts against Pretoria’s foreign alignments, financial markets fail to spot the reckoning ahead.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 6 h

Pander-style reporting will have less allure for AI than it does for us. Or to put it differently, AI won’t resist learning something new that contradicts existing belief, writes Holman Jenkins on.wsj.com/3GAMMs5

WSJopinion's tweet card. Grok’s ‘Hitler’ moment is a throwback to the boring days of prompting chatbots to say stupid things.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 7 h

European leaders at long last cranked up sanctions on Russia, sending Vladimir Putin a message that there will be more economic costs if he continues his drone and missile barrages on Ukraine. on.wsj.com/459STNf

WSJopinion's tweet card. Merz and other leaders look to squeeze Russia’s faltering economy. Where’s President Trump?

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 9 h

Illinois was one of only three states to lose population in the last Census. Now Now Gov. JB Pritzker may turbocharge Illinois’s troubles, write @ilpoliski and Ed Bacharach on.wsj.com/3IFp2Dw

WSJopinion's tweet card. Increasing payouts to Chicago cops and firemen will trigger an avalanche of copycat union demands.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 10 h

Lina Khan’s losing streak continues even after she’s left the FTC. On Thursday the agency’s three Trump appointees exonerated two U.S. oil shale executives whom the Biden FTC Chair falsely accused of colluding with OPEC. on.wsj.com/3GVrsNW

WSJopinion's tweet card. The FTC makes amends for another Lina Khan abuse of power.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 11 h

The Sweida massacres are a reminder of what can happen in the Middle East to the weak, or even to the strong if they let their guard down. on.wsj.com/3TNvvPj

WSJopinion's tweet card. Will the U.S. push the Druze and Kurds to capitulate to Damascus as if nothing has changed?

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 12 h

Europe will never keep its promises to Trump on defense. The bloc is staggering under the fiscal weight of foolish welfare, climate and immigration policies, writes @gerardtbaker on.wsj.com/3GOqm6E

WSJopinion's tweet card. The bloc is staggering under the fiscal weight of foolish welfare, climate and immigration policies.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 12 h

AI can’t replace free markets. Algorithms process data from the past while economic decisions are dynamic and forward-looking, write @Marian_L_Tupy and @PeterBoettke on.wsj.com/4506xkK

WSJopinion's tweet card. Algorithms process data from the past while economic decisions are dynamic and forward-looking.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 12 h

Meet the Medicaid Double-Dippers: The government has now found that up to 2.8 million Americans are enrolled in two separate health plans underwritten by taxpayers. on.wsj.com/3GM75Tp

WSJopinion's tweet card. The feds find that 2.8 million people are on two government health-insurance plans.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 13 h

Taxpayers should beware the costly SALT Cap Phaseout Zone. It may end up better to jettison the whole SALT apparatus and settle for the standard deduction, writes Philip DeMuth on.wsj.com/3GZqiRv

WSJopinion's tweet card. It may end up better to jettison the whole SALT apparatus and settle for the standard deduction.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 13 h

Medicare and Medicaid fail a basic scientific test. The programs don’t do what they claim to. If they were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market, writes @mfcannon on.wsj.com/4eZCLBr

WSJopinion's tweet card. The programs don’t do what they claim to. If they were drugs, regulators would pull them from the market.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 13 h

There’s no such thing as a free fast-food lunch. According to a new study, California has about 18,000 fewer fast-food jobs than if its $20 minimum-wage law had never passed. on.wsj.com/4nW9sDT

WSJopinion's tweet card. California’s $20 minimum wage at fast-food chains has hit employment.

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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion · 14 h

I know someone more eager than Donald Trump to put an end to the controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files: Me. I, Joseph Epstein, have grown weary of hearing my surname mentioned in connection with the odious activities, writes Joseph Epstein on.wsj.com/45e5UFv

WSJopinion's tweet card. It’s no picnic sharing a surname with a pedophile and pimp.

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