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☆ 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

☆ What Time Is It at the Heritage Foundation?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kate Bachelder Odell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, regan Locations: ukraine, taiwan

☆ 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

☆ Regulators Gone Wild
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Image: Scott Morgan/ReutersThe Supreme Court has reined in some of the Biden Administration’s regulatory excesses, but the federal bureaucracy is relentless. And now the White House is quietly changing its analytical methods to make it easier to impose new rules while disguising their cost. If you think regulation has been running amok in the last two years, buckle up.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Scott Morgan Organizations: Biden

☆ The Fire in Maui and the Lesson of Greece
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Costas Synolakis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Image: Scott Morgan/ReutersWhat went wrong in Maui? Last week a fire burned the historic city of Lahaina to the ground and killed at least 93 people, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Some local politicians have called the fire the worst natural disaster in Hawaii’s history, and compared it with the 1960 tsunami in Hilo, although a 1946 tsunami in Hilo, caused by an earthquake in Alaska, killed 158.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Scott Morgan Organizations: Reuters Locations: Maui, Lahaina, Hilo, Alaska

☆ A Republican Renaissance in Virginia?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Kate Bachelder Odell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, ded7e02a Organizations: gop Locations: virginia

☆ China’s Deflation Danger Isn’t What You Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Joseph C. Sternberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Kate Bachelder and Dan Henninger Images: Reuters/AP Composite: Mark KellyIf you’re American or European, your first thought on hearing this week that China is slipping into deflation probably was, “We should be so lucky.” Undeterred, investors now are fretting about price declines in China, although probably for the wrong reasons. As with anything involving China’s economy, what’s really happening is complex.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Kate Bachelder, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, “, ” Organizations: AP Locations: China

☆ A Gambit to Duck Supreme Court Review
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | 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, Kate Bachelder and Dan Henninger Images: Reuters/AP Composite: Mark KellyAbuse of the U.S. legal system is rampant, and the Supreme Court has agreed to address an egregious example that has roiled and divided lower courts. But the plaintiff who started it all is now trying to dodge High Court review by claiming her case is moot. Let’s hope she and her lawyers don’t get away with it.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Kate Bachelder, Dan Henninger, Kelly, don’t Organizations: AP

☆ Work Requirements and the Lost Lessons of 1996
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Kate Bachelder Odell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: doar, aei

☆ The Reagan Lesson for the Trumpian Right on Ukraine and China
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Kate Bachelder Odell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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