How to Fix Section 702 Surveillance
Congress is still debating how to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and doing it right has never been more important. The risk of terrorism has gone up since Hamas’s massacre in Israel, and the U.S. needs all the intel it can get to detect and prevent future attacks on […]
California Kills Auto Jobs in Toledo
Sacramento’s crusade to banish fossil fuels isn’t merely destroying jobs in California. It’s harming workers in other states too. On Thursday Chrysler parent Stellantis warned 3,600 auto workers in the Midwest that they could lose their jobs owing to California’s electric-vehicle mandate. Stellantis said it plans to cut a shift at a Jeep plant in […]
Biden’s Halting Record on Ukraine
President Biden is chiding Congress for not passing more military aid for Ukraine, and he invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington this week to help make the sale. We support more aid, but one reason the President is struggling to persuade Congress is his own uncertain trumpet over the last two years. The conventional wisdom […]
Philadelphia’s Union Crooks – WSJ
Big labor claims to stand up for workers, but too often its leaders exploit them. Philadelphia offers one example as a jury last week convicted two labor leaders for embezzling from their union. The case involves John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and Brian Burrows, the former business manager and president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical […]
Sun Shines on Fed 'Doomsday Book'
Through a simple Freedom of Information Act request, I obtained the mysterious document. Source link Once thought to be a distant relic of central banking in a bygone era, the so-called “Doomsday Book” of the Federal Reserve System is far from being a distant memory. In fact, the innovative re-discovery and utilization of the financial […]
NDP Keeps Justin Trudeau Afloat
Toronto Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sometimes seems to defy political gravity. He’s held office for more than eight years, through scandal and error. He survived revelations that he wore blackface three times as a young man, along with two ethics violations handed down from Canada’s ethics commissioner for conflict of interest. He has had public […]
Hamas’s Oct. 7 Attack Made Israel Stronger
Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board […]
Capitol Hill Loves My Honda Motorcycle
I own a big old Kawasaki and a bigger old Ducati. Yet on this particular day, I was riding a 1977 Honda NC50 with a single-cylinder two-stroke engine that sounds like a swarm of lethargic bees and churns out 2¼ horsepower. Other than the little ape-hanger handlebars, it looks like a pocket bicycle. Hells Angels […]
Stocks Edge Higher Ahead of Inflation Data, Fed Meeting
Gains across a swath of stocks on Monday offset declines in big technology shares, keeping major indexes steady ahead of coming inflation data. Monday extended a recent trend: Since a lower-than-expected inflation reading last month, investors have piled into the stocks of moderately sized companies, while cooling on the giant tech firms that had previously driven […]
FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review
A special committee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it had hired the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to conduct a review into the workplace culture, replacing another previously hired law firm nearly a month after The Wall Street Journal revealed allegations of harassment and discrimination pervaded the agency. Led by […]