Wall Street Journal Opinion

08/07/2025

The Trump administration claims Americans will line up for farming jobs. My experience makes me skeptical, writes Blake Hurst

The Trump administration claims Americans will line up for jobs. My experience makes me skeptical.

08/07/2025

The Western press and politicians are playing along with Hamas’s ghastly propaganda campaign, writes Gerard Baker

The Western press and politicians play along with the terror group’s ghastly propaganda campaign.

08/07/2025

A combination of budgetary constraints and political backlash is reducing Western support for NGO-backed priorities around the world. What went wrong? asks Walter Russell Mead

‘Civil society’ looked like the future when the Cold War ended. It doesn’t anymore.

08/07/2025

Denying Dreamers an opportunity to learn and advance in society doesn’t help anyone. It’s another example of the way the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda is at war with the country’s need for human talent.

The feds claim schools can’t offer scholarships to the Dreamers.

08/07/2025

Americans should renounce any schema in which one race is guilty and another innocent. That is the path to national ruin, writes Robert L. Woodson Sr.

The racial narrative leads major news organizations to ignore a violent attack on two white people.

08/07/2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans could bankrupt the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and require Congress to appropriate more money to pay claims.

The HHS secretary is targeting a liability shield for destruction.

08/07/2025

Tariffs are taxes, and someone always has to pay. But Powell and his colleagues seem obsessed with the inflationary effects of these particular taxes in a way they never have been with any other taxes, writes Donald L. Luskin

The Fed chairman fixates on the possible effects of tariffs but has said nothing about other tax hikes.

08/07/2025

New evidence of effectiveness is cause to drop a Biden restriction on Medicare coverage for anti-amyloid treatments.

08/07/2025

America has tried drug decriminalization, and the results are in: more crime, more disorder, more death. Next time radicals try to bring it to the ballot box, voters should remember how it went, writes Charles Fain Lehman

Decriminalization caused major rises in crime in both Oregon and Washington state.

08/07/2025

The parties have gerrymandered since before the word was coined in 1812. Both parties act in egregious ways. When they complain about the other, it’s hypocrisy pure and simple, writes Karl Rove

Democrats’ hypocrisy is worthy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’

08/07/2025

Trump wants at long last to raise the pressure on Russia for a cease-fire in Ukraine, and on Wednesday he threatened India with a 50% tariff if it keeps buying Russian oil. The puzzle is why the President is so far giving China a pass.

The 50% tariff is a sanction for buying Russian oil. But why is China spared?

08/07/2025

The White House claims its tariff revenue is coming from foreign countries, but Americans will soon pay new levies on small packages from abroad because of an executive order Trump signed last week, write Phillip W. Magness and Alberto Mingardi

The abolition of the de minimis exemption means you’ll soon be paying more for everything you buy from abroad.