Charter Schools Keep Winning Students From Union Schools
This has been the year for school choice—from vouchers, to homeschooling, to pod schools with parents who use education savings accounts. The winners include charter schools, as union-run K-12 schools lost hundreds of thousands of students during Covid-19 who haven’t returned. Charter enrollment is up 9% since 2019, while the number of students in district […]
The Fed Won't Try to Boost Biden
The central bank has only once changed its policy to help elect a presidential candidate: Nixon in 1972. Source link
Capture Flaco the Owl
If he remains free, rat poison or something worse will kill him. Source link
Musk Says ‘Make More Italians’
William McGurn is a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and writes the weekly “Main Street” column for the Journal each Tuesday. Previously he served as Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Mr. McGurn has served as chief editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He spent more than […]
How We Deterred Iran in the Gulf Last Time
‘We’re not in an armed conflict with the Houthis,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh recently stressed, and “part of why we are in the region is to bolster our deterrence.” Such words aren’t assuring for our Navy ships in the Red Sea, which have been fending off missiles and attack drones fired by the […]
The Odds Are Against Even Numbers
There’s something odd about our arithmetic. Like Rodney Dangerfield, even numbers don’t get no respect. Start with prime numbers. A prime number has only two factors, meaning it is divisible only by itself and 1. Except for 2, the token even number in the lot, the prime numbers—3, 5, 7, 11, etc.—are all odd. Prime […]
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Found in an Arctic Prison
The Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny has been moved to a remote Arctic prison and “is doing well,” his spokeswoman said on Monday, ending a 20-day mystery over his whereabouts that had many supporters fearing the worst. “We have found Aleksei,” the spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on social media. “His lawyer saw him today.” […]
A Yearlong Way to Boost Stock-Market Returns
Holiday lights, ugly sweaters and culling your losers. December is the month American investors are bombarded with reminders to dig through their portfolios for the stocks or funds they wish they hadn’t bought. Their consolation prize is the ability to reap tax savings and boost long-run returns. But making tax-loss harvesting a seasonal exercise means […]
The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?
That, in turn, led to increased interest in what protections organized labor could provide workers, even as some unions, like the United Auto Workers and Teamsters, seemed to fall behind on addressing AI’s potential to encroach on jobs. In a recent piece for Harvard Business Review, MIT engineering professor Yossi Sheffi argued short-sightedness on these […]
This N.Y.U. Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out.
Jerry Yu has the trappings of what the Chinese call second-generation rich. He boasts a Connecticut prep-school education. He lives in a Manhattan condominium bought for $8 million from Jeffrey R. Immelt, the former General Electric chief executive. And he is the majority owner of a Bitcoin mine in Texas, acquired last year for more […]