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☆ The Murder of a Great Educator
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Robert Maranto | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from from Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyNov. 6 is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important assassinations in U.S. history. Fifty years ago, while leaving a school-board meeting, the nation’s first black big-city school superintendent, Oakland, Calif.’s, Marcus Foster , was ambushed and killed instantly by a volley of cyanide-filled bullets. Marcus Foster was one of America’s greatest educators. As a principal in his native Philadelphia, he turned around three inner-city public schools in the 1950s and ’60s.

Persons: Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Marcus Foster, Foster “, ”, ” John P, Spencer, “ Organizations: Zuma Press, Reuters, American School Reform Locations: Oakland, Calif, Philadelphia

☆ Is AI a Painkiller or a Vitamin?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from from Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyLast week, the White House issued an executive order for command and control of artificial intelligence, strangely invoking the Defense Production Act. Added to the order were a mishmash of unhelpful notions like “advancing equity” and collective bargaining. It feels longer, with so many new players and capabilities beyond text, including open-source large language models that run on PCs and maybe on phones. Will generative AI take our jobs?

Persons: Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Biden, It’s, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Organizations: Zuma Press, Reuters, White House

☆ I Backed Trump, but Now I’m for Haley
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Andrew Stein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyI supported Donald Trump twice, but I now think the country would be best served with a different candidate in 2024—Nikki Haley. Mr. Trump did a good job as president, from improving the economy to securing the border and maintaining world peace. But a Trump re-election would be difficult, and half the country will never accept him as president. It would keep us divided while we face international situations that require this country to be unified.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Donald Trump, — Nikki Haley, Trump Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg

☆ $8.99 Cereal Could Rock the Globe
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( William A. Galston | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyThe course of world affairs may depend on the price of a box of cereal. The president is commander in chief of America’s military and the chief steward of its foreign policy. In international affairs, unlike in domestic policy, the president’s choices are often decisive. And when presidential candidates’ visions about foreign affairs fundamentally differ, as they almost certainly will in 2024, the outcome of the election will shape the fate of many nations.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg Locations: U.S

☆ Get Ready for a Short-Lived Economic Boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Stephen Miran | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyThe Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its third-quarter economic-growth estimate Thursday, and expectations are stratospheric. The Atlanta Federal Reserve suggests gross domestic product might have grown at an annual rate of more than 5%. The answer lies in the unexpected loosening of fiscal and monetary policy in 2023. After taking account of the Biden administration’s unsuccessful attempt to forgive student loans, the deficit unexpectedly doubled this year to about $2 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly The, Biden Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg, Atlanta Federal Reserve, Congressional

☆ Home Sellers Take On the Realtors Cartel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyThe 1.5 million-member National Association of Realtors spent $81.7 million on political lobbying in 2022, more than any other business group. Consider Burnett v. NAR, a federal class-action suit that Missouri home sellers have brought against the association. The case, which went to trial last week, presents an existential threat to the cartel. If the plaintiffs prevail, home buyers and sellers could save $120 billion in fees each year.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Burnett Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg, National Association of Realtors, NAR Locations: Missouri

☆ The Auto Makers Cry for EV Mercy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyGeneral Motors last week said it is delaying electric pick-up truck production in Michigan, citing slowing demand for EVs and the need to make them more profitable. But the Biden Administration’s back-door EV mandate is ironically causing trouble for its plans for green-vehicle investment. On Sept. 14, the day before the United Auto Workers launched its strike, the Energy Department sent letters to Ford, General Motors and Stellantis asking for help understanding “specific challenges” to its proposed rule that would reduce the credits under the corporate average fuel economy (Cafe) standards for producing electric vehicles.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly General, Biden, Ford, ” Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg, Mark Kelly General Motors, United Auto Workers, Energy Department, General Motors Locations: Michigan

☆ Another Black Monday May Be Around the Corner
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( John Greenwood | Steve H. Hanke | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyThe Federal Reserve’s policies are threatening U.S. financial markets and the economy. They are in danger of a steep recession and the risk of a repeat of 1987’s Black Monday. Early in the pandemic, the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation soared. That is more than three times the appropriate rate for hitting the Fed’s 2% inflation target.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg

☆ A Salute to Rupert Murdoch
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyRupert Murdoch announced Thursday that he’s resigning as chairman of his two media companies after seven consequential and highly successful decades. Few entrepreneurs have had a bigger impact on public life across the world, and allow us on the occasion to say a word about his role at the Wall Street Journal.

Persons: Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Rupert Murdoch, he’s Organizations: Reuters, Wall Street

☆ 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

☆ 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

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