One could forgive Trump's transgressions if he had just allowed Elon to hack away at the Pentagon's budget

 

Republican Revolt Reflects a Core Party Divide Over Spending and Debt

Whether the ultraconservatives dig in and force big changes to the megabill carrying President Trump’s agenda or capitulate, as they have in the past, will determine the fate of their party’s signature legislation.

As an Agent for food products from the Mediterranean we can live with 10% for every country except China. But solidify and simplify the collection process by replacing the incredibly complex 99 chapter Tariff Schedule and its charges with a simple 10% tariff for every imported item period

 

The Great Trump Tariff Rollback

By 

The WSJ Editorial Board

If there’s a silver lining to this turmoil, it is that markets have forced Mr. Trump to back down from his fever dream that high tariff walls will usher in a new “golden age.” The age didn’t last two months, and it was more leaden than golden. White House aide Peter Navarro, the main architect with Mr. Trump of the Liberation Day fiasco, has been repudiated.

That Trump shook hands with Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria who also embraced Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, makes his trip to Saudi Arabia a great success

 

Trump Meets New Syrian Leader After Announcing End of Sanctions

White House says president urged Sharaa to normalize with Israel and help the U.S. defeat Islamic State

By 

Alexander Ward

, 

Stephen Kalin

 and 

Alex Leary

Updated May 14, 2025 6:48 am ET

Students who should be taught how to develop their own minds and reach their own conclusions are instead being spoon-fed the conclusions of proselytizing professors. Universities are supposed to be dedicated to the unbiased search for truth. How about more teaching and less preaching?

 

How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire

Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.

By 

Jason L. Riley

May 13, 2025 5:07 pm ET

Henry Ford An an entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people’s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies of democracy around the world.

Elon Musk, Henry Ford and the Rich Tradition of Rabble-Rousers

By David Streitfeld

Reporting from San Francisco

Justice David Souter's 2012 warning is amazingly prescient.What did he see to think Trump was coming?

 

A Warning From Justice Souter: Democracy Is in Peril

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of an autocrat and the death of democracy.

By Adam Liptak

Reporting from Washington

Recuerdo que siendo Americano en mi colegio interno en Madrid Espana incluia los de Argentina Venezuela y Colombia

 

World Catholics See the First American Pope as Hardly American

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at ease.

By Patricia Mazzei

Reporting from Rome and Vatican City

Trump is such a meat head. With regard to China our position is so weak that the requirement that the U.S. eliminate tariffs completely before they consider their lowering tariffs on American goods is credible

 

This Is the Trade Conflict Xi Jinping Has Been Waiting For

For years, the leader of China has planned to make the world dependent on its exports and know-how. But the strategy has costs for his own country.

By David Pierson

Reporting from Hong Kong

• May 10, 2025

Amazon bought a mysterious chip startup 10 years ago. It now looks like one of the smartest deals in tech history.

 

The Stealthy Lab Cooking Up Amazon’s Secret Sauce

"It’s all such a dilemma. At least, nobody is dead—yet" is one hell of an assessment of the Magnificent Seven

 

The Giants of Silicon Valley Are Having a Midlife Crisis Over AI

Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla are all facing the ‘innovator’s dilemma’ at the same time

By 

Tim Higgins

May 10, 2025 5:30 am ET

Jason Grumet, the chief executive of the American Clean Power Association, a renewable energy trade group, said in a statement, “Doubling back to reconsider permits after projects are under construction sends a chilling signal to all energy investment.”

 

Trump Administration Halts Building of Giant Wind Farm Off N.Y. Coast

Claiming Equinor was “endangering American lives” and the environment because they weren't kissing his feet

More than 90 percent of students who concentrate in career and technical education graduate from high school, and about three-quarters of them continue their education after high school. Research shows that career and technical education has positive effects on students’ academic achievement, high school completion and college readiness.

 

Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College

By Randi Weingarten

Ms. Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers.

We’re in an economic pickle, and it’s self-induced. Home sales were down 5.9% in March. Consumer sentiment is chasing 10-year lows. Capital spending plans are way down. Cargo shipments from China to the U.S. are down by about a third. Truckers don’t get hired to haul empty containers. Retailers may lay off workers as store shelves empty. Apollo Global Management predicts all this by late May and a summer recession. Then look out below for corporate earnings. Increased private credit loan defaults could drive stagflation, the worst of all worlds.

 

The Economy Is in a Pickle

By 

Andy Kessler

May 4, 2025 4:31 pm ET

Interpreting Mozart or the Constitution is neither mechanical reproduction nor unfettered creativity. It is about using your eyes and ears and lived experience and education and critical lens and passion and skepticism and, above all, humility, to tease out the text’s infinite implications, and in doing so, to come closer to its essence.

 

A Pianist and a Law Professor Meet at the Bar …

By Jonathan Biss and Christopher Serkin

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist and Mr. Serkin is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School.

A comment on native Spanish expression in contrast to English language that I live with

 

The Things Only English Can Say

By Alex Maroño Porto

Mr. Maroño Porto, an associate editor at The Atlantic, is originally from Spain.

Mr. Trump’s bet is that Mr. Xi will blink first because the pain for the Chinese economy will be so great that he will have to strike an accommodation that will, over time, allow the United States to get back to something approaching normal. Mr. Xi is betting the opposite: that Mr. Trump has overreached, and can’t withstand bad G.D.P. numbers, rising inflation or plummeting polls. Only one of them is right.

 

A Flashing Economic Warning and a Sharp Political Jolt

The report that the economy contracted in the first quarter underscored how much President Trump has at risk as he pursues an aggressive trade war.

By David E. Sanger

David E. Sanger has covered six American presidencies and served as both a business and national security correspondent in Asia during a previous era of trade wars with the United States. He reported from Washington.

Trump may have unintentionally reduced carbon emissions just like a left wing moron

 

Trump May Have Unintentionally Reduced Carbon Emissions 

Carbon emissions, largely a byproduct of going places and making things, have always been tethered to economic growth. Forecasters increasingly anticipate that Mr. Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs could tip the economy into recession as companies and consumers cut spending in the face of higher prices for imported goods.

I always held Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew as a shining authoritarian light but an individual dies and so does the light

 

My Father Founded Singapore. He Wouldn’t Like What It’s Become.

By Lee Hsien Yang

Mr. Lee is a son of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founder and former prime minister. He wrote from London.