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Being a journalist isn’t a sure path to popularity. But we journalists don’t go into the profession to make new besties. Rather, to paraphrase William Shakespeare, we journalists have always suffered the slings and arrows of outraged people, and we still do. In recent years, however, it seems like individual journalists – not just their newspaper, broadcast or online outlet – are targets of snarky, snide, contemptuous, coarse and sometimes threatening remarks by people and institutions unhappy with how they do their jobs. President Donald Trump tells a Bloomberg News ...

Know why your society is in chaos?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that, in a closed system, entropy—or disorder—increases over time. As a political metaphor, this principle can be used to describe the effects of leftist policy: not because progressives consciously seek disorder, but because many of their preferred policies weaken the institutions, incentives, and social norms that impose structure on collective life. In a free society, millions of economically empowered individuals make decisions according to their own rational self-interest. Like Adam Smith’s invisible hand, these ...

Trump's 'truth' betrayed by White House chatbot

Columns

Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less ...

Trump deserves credit for realigning world

Columns

Iran’s strategy in this war was never complicated. The mullahs believed that if they choked the Strait of Hormuz long enough, Americans would feel it at the gas pump and Washington would lose its nerve before the midterms. Brent crude spiked past $107 a barrel this month, and Iranian-aligned ...

Trump’s populist image is dead

Columns

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it’s worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he’s lucky. ...

Tariffs and trade wars make life harder on US farmers

Editorial

JD Vance was in Iowa two weeks ago, trying to shore up GOP support in the heartland. “We want farming to be easier in the United States of America, not harder,” the vice president told the crowd in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Farming is always hard, but what could be making it even harder these days? Hmmm. Could it be President Trump’s tariffs and trade wars that have raised farmers’ costs and lost them markets abroad due to retaliation? Asking for a friend in the Midwest. While Mr. Trump can claim all he wants that foreigners pay his tariffs, Deere & Co. said on an earnings ...