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☆ Doug Burgum: From Fargo, to Microsoft, to the White House in 2024?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Kyle Peterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: While blue states stumble on personal incomes. Images: AP Composite: Mark KellyDoug Burgum , the governor of North Dakota, hopes to be on stage at the GOP’s first 2024 presidential debate, but in the days after his campaign announcement last month, the electorate’s reaction was: Doug who, from where? In one poll, 89% of Republicans didn’t know him enough to have an opinion.

Persons: Mark Kelly Doug Burgum, Doug, didn’t Locations: North Dakota

☆ In Union Votes, 11% Can Make a Majority
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( F. Vincent Vernuccio | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma PressShould three people control the future of a coffee shop with 28 employees? In an election last year, three workers voted to unionize, one voted no, and 24 didn’t participate. The election hasn’t been certified by the National Labor Relations Board, but it illustrates a problem in many unionization campaigns. Unions should be required to secure approval by a certain threshold of workers before organizing a business.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Dan Henninger, Richard B, Levine Organizations: National Labor Relations Board Locations: Riverside , Calif

☆ ProPublica’s Fishing Expedition for Justice Alito
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma PressThe political assault on the Supreme Court continues, and the latest Justice in the grinder is Samuel Alito . ProPublica reports that the Justice went on a fishing trip to Alaska with a billionaire in 2008 and didn’t report it on his annual Court disclosure form. As usual, this is a non-scandal built on partisan spin intended to harm the Justice and the current Court majority.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Dan Henninger, Richard B, Levine, Samuel Alito, ProPublica Organizations: Zuma Locations: Alaska

☆ Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Samuel A. Alito Jr. | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma PressEditor’s note: Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan of ProPublica, which styles itself “an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force,” emailed Justice Alito Friday with a series of questions and asked him to respond by noon EDT Tuesday. They informed the justice that “we do serious, fair, accurate reporting in the public interest and have won six Pulitzer Prizes.” Here is Justice Alito’s response:

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Dan Henninger, Richard B, Levine, Justin Elliott, Josh Kaplan, ProPublica, ”, Alito

☆ Mike Pence Says Donald Trump May Ditch Conservatives
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Kyle Peterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. politics just got wilder. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAmong the oddities of the 2024 presidential campaign is a contest between a former president and his vice president. Why should Republican primary voters favor Mike Pence over the man who put him on the ticket seven years ago? “Donald Trump promised to govern as a conservative, and we did for four years,” Mr. Pence says. I mean, with regard to a whole range of issues, he and a few others in this field are moving away from a traditional conservative agenda.”

Persons: wilder, Mark Kelly, Mike Pence, “ Donald Trump, ” Mr, Pence, “ Organizations: AFP, Getty, Republican Locations: .

☆ ‘Funemployment’ and the Gen Z Job Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyEditor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss “funemployment,” a term being used by Gen Z. Next week we’ll ask, “Were people right to boycott Bud Light and Target for their stands on political issues? Or should companies endorse political agendas?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before June 6. The best responses will be published that night.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Editor’s, “, Gen Z, Bud Light Organizations: Zuma, Target

☆ The ‘Poor Souls’ Buried Without Their Fathers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Warren Kozak | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyIf Iraq and Afghanistan were the instant-video wars and Vietnam was the television war, then World War II was the war of the black-and-white photograph. Newspapers and magazines brought stark images from the battlefields into American homes every day. Few were more gut-wrenching than one taken on Okinawa of a father, Col. Francis Fenton , praying over the body of his dead son, Pfc. Mike Fenton .

☆ How to Make Housing Less Affordable
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Collin Levy and Dan Henninger Images: Zuma Press/San Francisco Chronicle/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyThe Biden Administration’s regulatory onslaught continues, with almost no media coverage about the costs or consequences. A case in point is a new Department of Energy rule due to hit on May 31 that will make manufactured homes less affordable. Some 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes, often called mobile homes, and their median household income is $35,000 a year. The average cost of a manufactured home ranges from $72,000 to $132,000, compared to $365,000 for a traditional house. Manufactured homes were about 9% of new single-family home starts in 2021, providing more than 100,000 affordable homes.

☆ Denying Alzheimer’s Treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/CNP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyGood news is rare these days, so it’s worth celebrating the remarkable results that Eli Lilly reported Wednesday from a late-stage trial on its experimental Alzheimer’s drug. If only the Biden Administration would now let seniors have access to such breakthrough treatments. Lilly’s monoclonal antibody donanemab works by clearing amyloid plaque in the brain that is a characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. The cause of Alzheimer’s isn’t known, but many researchers believe that plaque that builds up over decades can cause a cascade of neurological degeneration.

☆ ‘Progressives’ Want to Go Back to the 1950s
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Walter Russell Mead | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/CNP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe Biden administration plans a fundamental transformation of American economic policy at home and abroad. That’s the takeaway from national security adviser Jake Sullivan ’s speech at the Brookings Institution last week. This was a big speech about major policy changes, and those who want to understand the direction of American policy in a second Biden term would be unwise to overlook it. The break with post-Cold War Democratic trade and economic policy is radical.

☆ The Supreme Court Takes Up ‘Home-Equity Theft’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Christina Martin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Images: Reuters/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyGeraldine Tyler never thought she’d end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court—especially at 94. Ms. Tyler is a victim of what’s often called home-equity theft, but this form of robbery isn’t criminal; in fact, it’s legal in a dozen states. The Supreme Court, which hears oral arguments Wednesday in Tyler v. Hennepin County, has the opportunity to end these predatory tax foreclosures once and for all. To collect what it was owed, Hennepin County seized and later sold the one-bedroom condo for $40,000. You might think the county would settle the $15,000 debt and return the $25,000 balance to Ms. Tyler.

☆ Have a Cold Bud Light, Not a Woke One
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Anson Frericks | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyAnheuser-Busch is losing customers over Bud Light’s partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney , but the company’s problem is more fundamental. The brewer has fallen in line with other companies engaged in “stakeholder capitalism,” which prioritizes broad social issues over shareholder value. I worked at Anheuser-Busch for 11 years, rising to U.S. president of sales and distribution before leaving in 2022. The firm was focused on increasing shareholder value and did so in part by offering a high-quality and, at the time, decidedly apolitical product: Bud Light.

☆ The Fox-Dominion Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyThe wailing you heard across the land Tuesday afternoon was the sound of thousands of journalists lamenting the settlement of the defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. An entire industry of reporters has been denied the schadenfreude of seeing their hated political and media competitor in the dock. An hilariously revealing courtroom account in Politico laments that “hopes were dashed—dreams torpedoed” by the settlement. The settlement is a victory for Dominion, which said Fox will pay $787.5 million.

☆ Harlan Crow Is ‘Collateral Damage’ of a Smear Campaign Against Clarence Thomas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyDallasAmerican politics lately feels like an endless game of—pardon the infelicitous word—delegitimation. The aim isn’t to convince voters that a political adversary is wrong or misguided, or even that he’s stupid or lying. It’s to assure the like-minded that he has no legitimate place in the public square and to drive him out if possible.

☆ Affirmative Action Mocks Ethnic Diversity
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Kyle Peterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How to Botch an Assassination Investigation
▼ + stars: | 1963-11-22 | by ( Thomas J. Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, shocked the nation. It brought justifiable scrutiny on the law enforcement agencies that should have prevented it as well as those that investigated it. One lesson law enforcement learned from Dallas and its aftermath is how not to investigate an assassination. The Kennedy investigation devolved into a fiasco. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Dallas police and sheriff offices all argued with each other.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly The, John F, Kennedy, Warren Commission’s, Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald Organizations: Getty, Zuma, Texas, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Service, Dallas Locations: Dallas

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