The Wall Street Journal

25/10/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: What’s worse than a shutdown? In this case, maybe what comes after, writes Kimberley Strassel.

There’s no way to end the current funding crisis that doesn’t create a new crisis.

25/10/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: In our highly polarized politics, small deviations from the norm in election results could reveal factors that prove decisive next year, writes Karl Rove.

Who wins on Nov. 4 and by how much could hold clues to the 2026 midterms.

25/10/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: Gambling has a long history of attracting crooks. Addictive legal bets can spiral toward illegality. There’s a reason Congress tried to ban this in the first place, which the public might be rediscovering.

The FBI uncovers a new sports betting scandal, as the feds indict Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and others.

25/10/2025

A shift is under way that will be welcome news to people who have tired of tiptoeing around their children’s feelings.

The internet calls it “FAFO,” short for “F—Around and Find Out.” It’s a child-rearing style that elevates consequences over the “gentle parenting” methods that have helped shape Gen Z.

FAFO (often pronounced “faff-oh”) is based on the idea that parents can ask and warn, but if a child breaks the rules, mom and dad aren’t standing in the way of the repercussions.

Won’t bring your raincoat? Walk home in the downpour. Didn’t feel like having lasagna for dinner? Survive until breakfast. Left your toy on the floor again? Go find it in the trash under the lasagna you didn’t eat.

Inside the FAFO parenting movement: https://on.wsj.com/4qlzgdT

25/10/2025

The odds didn’t look good when Gwen Orilio was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. Ten years later, she’s still alive—and part of a new era of cancer treatment.

25/10/2025

Gen X is barreling toward retirement with an excruciating student-loan burden. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4oEqAO6

Christopher Fausone got his bachelor’s degree in applied behavior analysis when he was in his 30s to help him as he home-schooled his son, who has autism. Nearly a decade later, he received an M.B.A., hoping it would advance his career.

But the higher-paying roles he dreamed of slipped through his grasp because they required years of work experience, he said. Today, the 49-year-old lives in Marysville, Wash., and works in commercial pest control. He makes $80,000 a year, and owes around $130,000 in student loans.

Fausone says he regrets going to graduate school and taking out student loans. He has nothing saved for retirement and doesn’t think he will be able to afford to buy a house.

The six million-plus borrowers aged 50 to 61 have the highest average balance of any age group, at $47,857. Now, as parents and grandparents, they are passing along a skepticism toward higher education and its hefty price tag, part of the broader unraveling of America’s “college for all” ideology.

25/10/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: Democrats have a tendency to sacrifice the many to advance an identity-based vision of justice. That approach may energize a small slice of the party’s base, but it alienates voters that Democrats need to win, writes Jorge Elorza.

As with boys in girls’ sports and antipolice activism, identity politics trump common sense.

25/10/2025

Candy wants to be seen, and heard. And we want to be seen and heard eating it. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/47mJ3r4

25/10/2025

One of the biggest investors snapping up destroyed properties in Los Angeles after wildfires destroyed properties is Edwin Castro, who won a $2 billion Powerball in 2022. While some locals appreciate his efforts, others are skeptical of his motives. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/49lokGN

25/10/2025

For over a decade, Taylor Thomson and Ashley Richardson were inseparable. After a celebrity psychic recommended a new crypto token, Richardson did the one thing she swore she would never do: She got involved with Thomson’s money.

She helped Thomson, an heiress to Canada’s wealthiest family, invest in more than a dozen coins and held what at times amounted to more than $140 million in cryptocurrency of her friend’s money.

By midyear in 2022, the crypto market crashed. The epic battle has landed the pair in court.

Today, Richardson drives an Uber up and down California’s Central Coast, a job she took to make ends meet.

25/10/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: Students and their families want to know what they’re getting for their pricey tuition, and fresh college rankings can offer an alternative to the conventional educational wisdom.

A new college ranking considers such factors as free speech on campus and alumni success.

25/10/2025

For a time, Corinne Byerley belonged to a social-media movement that has given antidepressants a makeover—from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory for enlightened and empowered young women.

Millennial and GenZ influencers, some paid by telehealth companies, evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram, recasting the medications as pop-culture touchstones.

Byerley recalled days when she felt lonely, overwhelmed and, at times, paralyzed with anxiety and self-doubt.

The 34-year-old stay-at-home mom, who had neither health insurance nor money for psychotherapy, said she was intrigued hearing a former MTV star talk up Lexapro on a podcast in 2023.

After posting a video on TikTok asking for help, someone recommended Hers, a telehealth company. Byerley answered a questionnaire, and an online nurse practitioner prescribed a generic version of Lexapro. A bottle arrived days later. She was told initially that “any side effects are generally mild and usually subside quickly.”

In the months that followed, she gushed over the pills to her thousands of followers. She touted benefits of the medicine, but later felt emotionally numb, had brain fog and a loss of libido, she said.

At first, Byerley made light of some of the side effects, telling TikTok followers that, “overall, I feel like I’m doing really well.”

Privately, she sought help for her sexual dysfunction from a psychiatrist, who prescribed two other medications. Byerley abruptly quit them all when nothing helped.

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