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☆ 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 .

☆ 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.

☆ What the 14th Amendment Really Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot discusses the prosecutor's report with Kim Strassel and Holman Jenkins Jr. Images: Reuters/AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe debt talks are stalled and President Biden is again threatening to invoke the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to pay interest on America’s debt without Congress raising the debt ceiling. The truth is that the Treasury has more than ample revenue coming in each month to avoid defaulting on the debt, and Mr. Biden doesn’t need to distort the meaning of the 14th Amendment to do it.

☆ How the IRS Snoops on the Innocent
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: Bay Area News Group/AP/Zuma Press/iStock Photo Composite: Mark KellyRepublicans have made political hay out of President Biden’s plan to supersize the IRS, and here’s another bumper crop: The Supreme Court held this week that revenue agents who are chasing a debt have almost unbounded power to secretly obtain bank records on people in a delinquent taxpayer’s orbit, even his lawyers. Reversing this is up to Congress.

☆ For Gen Z, Unemployment Can Be a Blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Suzy Welch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: Bay Area News Group/AP/Zuma Press/iStock Photo Composite: Mark KellyAs a regular old, capitalist Boomer gal teaching bright and shiny young M.B.A. students, I sometimes find myself wondering if Generation Z is brilliant or bonkers. Burnout, self-care, boundaries—they need and want them all, sigh. But because I love my students, and they so often surprise me with their profound self-awareness, boundless creativity and poignant longing to save the planet, I usually delight in the discrepancies in our understanding of how the world works. It will all sort itself out in the end, I tell myself, when they bump into reality.

☆ DeSantis’s Legislative Record
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. But as Mr. DeSantis readies a 2024 presidential campaign, what deserves to get more attention is the agenda he recently helped usher through Tallahassee. Mr. DeSantis is blessed with Republican supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature, so he can’t claim total credit. Some planks of his platform are controversial among conservatives, and others could prove politically unpalatable to a national electorate. Yet there’s no denying that Mr. DeSantis gets things done.

☆ 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.

☆ Spinning Federal Mortgage Fees
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa, Collin Levy and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyChanges to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s mortgage pricing are creating a stir in the marketplace, not that the bureaucracy wants to admit it. The changes, which take effect Monday, raise costs for some good-credit borrowers while making mortgages cheaper for low-income borrowers. We highlighted the changes in a recent editorial, and FHFA Director Sandra Thompson objected to our characterization that the plan will socialize mortgage-lending risk. Ms. Thompson says the new policy “won’t impose higher fees on higher-credit-score borrowers than on lower-credit-score borrowers, all else equal.” She says some borrowers with higher credit scores may even pay less.

☆ The Pentagon Tilts at Windmills
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa, Collin Levy and Dan Henninger. Witness how the Department of the Interior rolled over Pentagon warnings that offshore wind installations in the mid-Atlantic could interfere with military training. President Biden has set a goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. Waters off the coasts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are prime real estate for wind farms because they are relatively shallow. But they are also training grounds for the Navy and Air Force, including North Carolina’s Dare County bombing range.

☆ Et Tu, Juan? Clarence Thomas’s Fickle Friends Pile On
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( James Taranto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa, Collin Levy and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyMitt Romney once complained that Barack Obama didn’t play fair. “I’ve been disappointed in the president’s campaign to date, which is focused on character assassination,” he told reporters in May 2012. “If the reports are accurate, it stinks,” Mr. Romney said. “I don’t have to explain more than that.” But the reports contained many inaccuracies, as I documented last week.

☆ Biden Is Desperately Seeking Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa, Collin Levy and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden’s re-election announcement video on Tuesday was unusual, if not surprising. The early scenes are less about Mr. Biden’s record, and the sunny uplands of second-term hope, than they are about Donald Trump: images of the Jan. 6 riot, Trump signs, and a reference to “MAGA extremists.”The video betrays a little too obviously what Democrats and the press know but don’t like to admit in public: Mr. Biden desperately wants a rematch with Donald Trump. He doesn’t want to run on his own record. He wants to run one more time by stoking fear about what might happen if the former President returns to the Oval Office.

☆ 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.

☆ 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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