Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz compiled a factually damning report that even a thickheaded and biased press will have to take account of, writes
@HolmanJenkins
Joe Biden has an obligation to answer questions about his son’s influence-peddling and his own financial dealings—notably regarding China, writes The Editorial Board
Iranians continue to protest in the streets against their rulers in Tehran, often at enormous personal cost. One brave example is our contributor Hossein Ronaghi and his family.
The media question of the day is why members of the press corps aren’t deciding on their own to reject the source who seems to have been misleading them for years, writes
@FreemanWSJ
.
If Adam Schiff were confident in his legal position, he’d want to put the case to a judge. Yet he seems desperate not to, writes
@DavidRivkin
and Lee A. Casey
The debate clash showed that Mike Pence is much more than merely a loyal deputy, and that Kamala Harris’s views are much further to the left than Democrats want Americans to know, writes The Editorial Board
The Presidential Records Act allows the president to decide what records to return and what records to keep at the end of his presidency. And the National Archives and Records Administration can’t do anything about it, writes Michael Bekesha
Evidence appears that Twitter booted blogger Alex Berenson after White House officials privately complained about him to Twitter employees. A condominium of Big Tech and government is itself a hazard to public health and democracy.
America wasn’t perfect when I fought for her in World War II, and she isn’t now—but I’d re-enlist today, writes 95-year-old Tuskegee airman Harry Stewart
Once his days in court are over, President Trump should do his part to unite the country by leading a peaceful transition and letting grievances go, writes
@KarlRove
Why the campaign to undermine Attorney General Barr? Because his drive for the truth reveals that Russia-collusion was pure fantasy, and that hatred of Trump drove important people to abuse their power, writes
@KimStrassel
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom—and still succeed."
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s tank stall is a danger to Ukraine and NATO, and a disgrace for a Chancellor who six months ago promised a bolder Germany.
Iran’s murder of dissident David Afkari on Saturday should be a wake up call to democratic world leaders: Tehran won’t moderate. Work with the Iranian people to bring change, writes
@PahlaviReza
Rather than try to manipulate public opinion, the job of health officials is to offer their best scientific advice. They shouldn’t act like politicians or censors, and when they do, they squander the public’s trust.
Will there ever be accountability for Democrats? The establishment wing of the party blew one election to Donald Trump and came to the precipice of blowing another, writes
@cenkuygur
51 former officials lied to the public with deliberation and premeditation to influence a presidential election, and the national press abetted them, writes Holman Jenkins
Ottawa’s reaction to possible Chinese election meddling reveals a country whose institutions and elites have been so compromised that they can’t protect Canada’s national interests or those of its democratic allies, writes
@brianleecrowley
The NBA’s posture in Xinjiang sent a strong message to the Chinese Communist Party: For the right price, anything is up for debate—even the value of a human life, writes
@MarshaBlackburn
Hispanic Republicans have Democrats seeing red in border states. Mayra Flores won a Texas congressional district that went for Hillary Clinton by more than 20 points, writes
@mshields007
In 2016 I thought I was a Never Trumper. Now I think I was wrong. If the election took place today, I would vote to re-elect the president, writes
@kraussm
For months Gary Gensler claimed to have authority over crypto and warned about self-dealing at their exchanges. Why didn’t he investigate FTX? asks
@AllysiaFinley
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news: The pandemic is coming to an end, writes
@MartyMakary
Dissatisfaction with the handling of the coronavirus has contributed to the rapid growth of Hong Kong’s labor unions, which are central to the opposition to Communist rule, writes
@JillianKayM
The Editorial Board: Democrats and the media are turning Attorney General William Barr into a villain for doing his duty and making the hard decisions that special counsel Robert Mueller abdicated.
51 former officials lied to the public with deliberation and premeditation to influence a presidential election, and the national press abetted them, writes Holman Jenkins
A week that started as Democrats’ big push to destroy President Trump could instead easily come to be known as the week that ended Joe Biden’s run, writes
@KimStrassel
President Biden’s accusatory, dishonest defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal was unworthy of the sacrifices Americans have made in that conflict, writes The Editorial Board
Portland, Oregon, thinks of itself as a tolerant progressive city. Yet four weeks after a left-wing mob severely beat journalist Andy Ngo, there have been no arrests or charges for the assault.
The tempestuous President Trump is overseeing a principled, far-reaching reform of agencies that had exceeded their constitutional writ, writes Chris DeMuth:
The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top—candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The dam has finally broken on the evidence that the coronavirus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the shame is that it took so long because the suspicious facts have been apparent from the start.
A new Netflix miniseries, “When They See Us,” wrongly portrays the Central Park Five as totally innocent—and defames me in the process, writes Linda Fairstein.
Was the FBI justified in searching Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago? The warrant itself suggests the answer is likely no, write
@DavidRivkin
and Lee A. Casey
The effort to overthrow President Trump, which began before his election, is slowly being exposed. But if Joe Biden is elected, the full truth may never come out, writes
@SenRonJohnson
An exhaustive search of public records finds no evidence of the racial crimes alleged at the University of Missouri that triggered the NFL protests, writes
@JillianKayM
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been destructive to her party’s chances in 2020. She is a one woman committee to re-elect President Trump, writes
@peggynoonannyc
Dissatisfaction with the handling of the coronavirus has contributed to the rapid growth of Hong Kong’s labor unions, which are central to the opposition to Communist rule, writes
@JillianKayM
In one fell swoop Biden destroyed tens of billions of dollars in U.S. intellectual property, set a destructive precedent that will reduce pharmaceutical investment, and surrendered America’s advantage in biotech.
Joe Biden and Chris Wallace were wrong. Critical race theory trainings for government employees amounted to political indoctrination, writes
@realchrisrufo
The most reasonable conclusion from the available scientific evidence is that community mask mandates have—at most—a small effect on the course of the pandemic, writes Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo of UCLA
Public-health officials ruined many lives by insisting that workers with natural immunity to Covid-19 be fired if they weren’t fully vaccinated. It’s time to reinstate those employees with an apology, writes
@MartyMakary
The Editorial Board: Silicon Valley's partisan censorship flies in the face of American instincts about democracy, fair play, and the spirit of the First Amendment.
Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders attributes his party’s victory to anger over illegal immigration and shock at post-Oct. 7 displays of antisemitism, in an interview with
@tunkuv
.
The NBA’s posture in Xinjiang sent a strong message to the Chinese Communist Party: For the right price, anything is up for debate—even the value of a human life, writes
@MarshaBlackburn
Chief Justice John Roberts’s decision to join the four liberal Justices to block a citizenship question on the Census is wrong on the merits and threatens larger damage to the Constitution’s separation of powers.
Hong Kong has just arrested and criminally charged 81-year-old lawyer Martin Lee for participating in a pro-democracy protest. His father’s words ring in my ears: “Never, ever trust the Communists,” writes
@wjmcgurn
Hong Kong has just arrested and criminally charged 81-year-old lawyer Martin Lee for participating in a pro-democracy protest. His father’s words ring in my ears: “Never, ever trust the Communists,” writes
@wjmcgurn
I am a blogger and Internet freedom activist in Iran, and I have a message that millions of Iranians are desperate for you to hear, writes Hossein Ronaghi. The Western media is failing the Iranian people.
Perhaps it’s unrealistic to expect lawmakers to give up the power they arrogated in 1887, but the madness of Jan. 6, 2021, should have made a convincing case.
The NBA’s posture in Xinjiang sent a strong message to the Chinese Communist Party: For the right price, anything is up for debate—even the value of a human life, writes
@MarshaBlackburn
“If the Democrats unify around anything, it should be around their voters, who clearly prefer the positions of Justice Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” writes
@cenkuygur
Hong Kong has just arrested and criminally charged 81-year-old lawyer Martin Lee for participating in a pro-democracy protest. His father’s words ring in my ears: “Never, ever trust the Communists,” writes
@wjmcgurn
The Department of Justice had better produce very strong evidence of a crime committed by Project Veritas to justify the FBI’s seizure of James O’Keefe’s records.