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☆ Is There a Constitutional Right to Vagrancy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal challenging a judicial ruling that established a de facto constitutional right to vagrancy. ( City of Grants Pass v. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 blocked the Oregon town of Grants Pass from enforcing “anti-camping” laws on public property. The judges said the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits cities from arresting or imposing penalties on homeless people for squatting on public property if there aren’t enough shelter beds for every vagrant.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Johnson Organizations: Zuma, Mark Kelly Good, West, Ninth Circuit Locations: West Coast, Grants, Oregon

☆ Wisconsin’s Act 10 Is in Jeopardy
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger & Paul Gigot. Images: Getty Images/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyWisconsin progressives went for a judicial abuse trifecta last week, filing a lawsuit to overturn Act 10, the landmark 2011 law that limited the ability of public unions to bargain collectively. The case is part of the Democratic campaign to use the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court to redraw the state’s legislative district maps and end school choice. Scott Walker , has saved the Badger State from turning into Illinois or New York, where public unions essentially run the state government for their own benefit. According to the MacIver Institute, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers $16.8 billion since it was passed in 2011, making public finances more manageable at every level of government.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Paul Gigot, Mark Kelly Wisconsin, Scott Walker Organizations: Democratic, Gov, Badger, MacIver Institute Locations: Illinois, New York, Wisconsin

☆ Can Washington Still Do Anything?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger & Paul Gigot. Images: Getty Images/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyCan the United States government still act to solve problems and aid allies in the national interest? President Biden has asked Congress for $106 billion in supplemental spending, but he needs Republican votes to do it. Republicans want to do something to reduce the flood of migrants pouring across the border and burdening American cities, but they need Democratic votes to pass it. The necessity for compromise is obvious, but America’s polarized politics and Mr. Biden’s political weakness may tank the effort.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Paul Gigot, Mark Kelly, Biden Organizations: United Locations: United States, Ukraine, Israel, U.S

☆ Autonomous Cars Beat EVs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, and Kim Strassel. And given high prices for EVs, subsidies are mainly a giveaway to the already well-off. If you add up carbon emissions from manufacturing, daily use and end of life, EVs have total life-cycle emissions 30% lower than gasoline-powered autos. In Silicon Valley, something is considered truly transformational if it’s 10 times better, not a third. Instead of throwing taxpayer money at EVs, President Biden could have been a hero and helped bring autonomous vehicles to the market faster.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Ford, Biden Organizations: Getty, Honda, General Motors Locations: Silicon, EVs

☆ U.S. CEOs on the Chinese Menu
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, and Kim Strassel. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyWhatever the merits of this week’s summit between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping , there was no reason for U.S. business leaders to trip over themselves to get in on the action. Yet there they were Wednesday evening, kowtowing to Mr. Xi at a dinner that delivered China a propaganda coup and the CEOs an embarrassment. The dinner, for which ticket prices ranged up to $40,000, sounds like some affair. Mr. Xi received a standing ovation for taking the stage before he said a word.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Biden, Xi Jinping, kowtowing, Xi, Tim Cook Organizations: Getty, Qualcomm, Boeing, U.S Locations: China

☆ Trump University, Now With Tax Money
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, and Kim Strassel. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyAs if the federal bureaucracy didn’t have enough to do, Donald Trump says that in a second term he’d create a new tuition-free online university to “compete directly” for college students. It would award bachelor’s degree equivalents “that the U.S. government and all federal contractors will henceforth recognize.” Step right up to enroll in Trump University 2.0. Mr. Trump unveiled the idea recently in a video on Truth Social, and the plan includes all of the careful policy thinking typical of a video on Truth Social. “Whether you want lectures on ancient histories, or an introduction to financial accounting, or training in a skilled trade,” Mr. Trump said, “the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly, using study groups, mentors, industry partnerships, and the latest breakthrough in computing.”

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Mene Ukueberuwa, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Donald Trump, Trump, Mr Organizations: Getty, Trump University

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried and the SEC
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellySam Bankman-Fried charmed investors and politicians, but he wasn’t so fortunate with a federal jury. On Thursday the former FTX crypto-exchange kingpin was convicted of seven counts of fraud and money-laundering. Note to Chairman Gary Gensler : The Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t need to regulate crypto markets to police malfeasance. Prosecutors showed that Mr. Bankman-Fried used the money to fund risky investment bets and cover losses at his Alameda Research trading house, buy influence in Washington, and acquire real estate in the Bahamas.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Sam Bankman, Fried, Gary Gensler, FTX Organizations: Reuters, Securities, Exchange, Prosecutors, Alameda Research Locations: Washington, Bahamas

☆ New Jersey Demands That ‘God’s Square Mile’ Open on Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Rachel Chiu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyNeptune Township, N.J.A religious nonprofit has owned Ocean Grove, a stretch of beach and adjacent property, for more than 150 years. In the 1980s the group relaxed that policy, opening Ocean Grove’s beaches at noon on Sundays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It’s the only patch of the roughly 130-mile Jersey Shore that’s off limits to bathers on summer Sunday mornings. Now state officials are looking to strip the community of its religious tradition and force the beaches open.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Neptune, it’s Organizations: Reuters, Day, Labor, Jersey Shore Locations: N.J, Jersey

☆ A Big Legal Defeat for the Realtors
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyThe National Association of Realtors has objected to our editorials challenging its anti-competitive business model, but what do you know. On Tuesday a federal jury found the Realtors liable under U.S. antitrust laws for conspiring to fix prices in the class-action case Burnett v. NAR. Missouri home sellers challenged a Realtor rule requiring seller agents to provide a blanket offer of compensation to a buyer’s broker to list a home on the association’s affiliated multiple-listing service (MLS). These databases of homes for sale are similar to stock exchanges in that they match brokers and sellers.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Burnett Organizations: Reuters, National Association of Realtors, Realtors, NAR Locations: Missouri

☆ The Return of Taxachusetts
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark Kelly‘Affordable housing” is a noble goal and the mother of endless dim policies. The latest counterproductive effort is a push in Massachusetts to fund home construction by taxing home sales. Maura Healey recently gave her blessing to Bay State towns and cities that want to tax home sales. Instead of going into a general fund, the revenue would be set aside to support housing that the state deems affordable.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Maura Healey Organizations: Reuters, Gov, Affordable Locations: Massachusetts, Bay State

☆ Brace for the Wind and Electric-Vehicle Bailouts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyFord assured investors last week that its generous deal with the United Auto Workers wouldn’t threaten its profitability. The same can’t be said of its electric vehicles, which lost $3.1 billion during the first nine months of this year. Those losses will doubtless grow, and anyone who thinks Washington won’t give auto makers another bailout should think again. Last week Munich-based Siemens Energy , one of the world’s top wind manufacturers, said the German government is prepared to extend as much as €16 billion (or $16.9 billion) in state guarantees to rescue it.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Ford, Washington Organizations: Reuters, United Auto Workers, Siemens Energy Locations: Munich

☆ State Tax Masochism by the Sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyOne great benefit of America’s federalist Constitution is policy competition among the states. Voters in Florida don’t have to live under New York’s laws, and Americans and businesses can vote with their feet by moving across state lines. That truth came into focus again last week when the Tax Foundation released its annual ranking of state business tax climates, and there’s a yawning gap between the winners and losers. The worst stack up punishing rates, making new business much more difficult and costly.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Organizations: Reuters, Voters, Tax Foundation Locations: Florida

☆ The Future of the NFL
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyEditor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss the National Football League. Next we’ll ask: “Homeland Security data say that more than two million migrants have been apprehended crossing the U.S. border with Mexico in 2023. And that number doesn’t include those who successfully evaded the border patrols. What should America do about this massive influx?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before Oct. 10.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Editor’s Organizations: Getty, National Football League Locations: U.S, Mexico, New York, Washington, America

☆ The Rise and Fall of SBF
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyI first got to know author Michael Lewis, then of “Liar’s Poker” fame, when in the mid-1990s I took him around Silicon Valley in an old beat-up convertible. I told stories and showed him where the first integrated circuit and microprocessor were invented, plus Xerox Parc and its beanbag chairs, Hewlett Packard and Intel. As we drove around, I shared my history with entrepreneur Jim Clark, his time at Silicon Graphics and early days with Netscape, and of the venture capitalist Glenn Mueller, who committed suicide after being denied access to invest.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Michael Lewis, “, Hewlett, Jim Clark, Glenn Mueller Organizations: Getty, Xerox Parc, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Silicon Graphics, Netscape Locations: Silicon

☆ Requiem for a Dumpster Full of Books
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Lance Morrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, and Kyle Peterson. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe dumpster behind the arts center in our upstate New York village is filled to the brim with discarded books—thousands of volumes that now, after a rainy August, have grown soggy and begun to dissolve, reverting squalidly to pulp. The mass grave is an unsettling sight to someone who was brought up in the worship of books.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Kyle Peterson, Mark Kelly Organizations: Zuma Locations: New York

☆ Jimmy Buffett Departs With the Summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Bob Greene | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, and Kyle Peterson. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThere was always a sly grin, a sweetly sardonic message, in just about everything Jimmy Buffett sang or did. So if he had to die, of course it would be at the beginning of Labor Day weekend—summer’s end, the annual last breath of looseness and laughter.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell, Kyle Peterson, Mark Kelly, Jimmy Buffett Organizations: Zuma, Labor

☆ ‘Lazy Girl Jobs’ Won’t Make Gen Z Less Anxious
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Suzy Welch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Jason Riley. Images: Zuma Press/Invision/AP Composite: Mark KellyJust when you thought Gen Z couldn’t get more annoying, it has a new trend: Lazy Girl Jobs. According to a 20-something self-styled life coach on TikTok, this entails leaning into, no, not exciting and meaningful careers—take that, Sheryl Sandberg—but low-stress, mostly or completely remote jobs paying $60,000 to $80,000 so that you can enjoy lives of non-work-focused safety and comfort. She recommends looking for openings like “Marketing Associate” and “Customer Success Manager” and in one video declares (if one can declare anything in a monotone): “The whole point is for us to go live our lives and be amazing humans.”

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Jason Riley, Mark Kelly, Z, Sheryl Sandberg, ” Organizations: Zuma, TikTok

☆ The Doctor Won’t See You Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Andrew Hartz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/EPA/Shutterstock/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyA patient came to a clinic where I worked a few years ago. He was looking for help with depression but also told his therapist that he was feeling frustrated after having lost out on a research fellowship. The patient, who was white, felt the reason was affirmative action. They argued that it would be unfair for a clinician of color to have to provide therapy to a “racist” patient.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, didn’t Organizations: Reuters, Zuma

☆ Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Steve Milloy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: EPA/AP/PA/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyThe global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Organizations: Reuters, University of Maine’s

☆ Virginia Tech’s Bias Response Team and the First Amendment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe advertising catchphrase “see something, say something” calls to mind suspicious packages that might be bombs. At Virginia Tech, that slogan applies to the school’s official Bias Intervention and Response Team, or BIRT. Hokies are encouraged to report one another’s ill-considered opinions or crass jokes. On May 31 the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to end this, but a dissent by veteran Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III is a persuasive signal flare for the Supreme Court to take the case and defend free speech.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, BIRT, Judge J, Harvie Wilkinson Organizations: Getty, Virginia Tech, Hokies

☆ Biden’s High-Speed Car Crash Is Waiting to Happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyA Tesla Model S abruptly shifted lanes and braked on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last Thanksgiving, causing an eight-car pileup that injured nine, including a toddler. The driver claimed to have been using the car’s full self-driving function, which appears to have malfunctioned. Complaints of “phantom braking” even when Teslas aren’t “self-driving” have been piling up too.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Tesla Organizations: Getty, San Locations: San Francisco, Oakland

☆ The Target of Runaway Theft
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAmerica’s turn toward lawlessness is nowhere more evident than at retail stores, where these days even toothpaste is often under lock and key. Now Brian Cornell , the CEO of Target Corp., has put a number on the cost of “inventory shrinkage,” which is mostly theft: $500 million in lower profits this year.

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