Trump is not wrong in killing the EV subsidy and reducing Biden's stricter fuel efficiency standards when you consider the environmental effects of mining rare earth minerals for batteries

 

Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a “scam.”

By Lisa FriedmanMaxine Joselow and Jack Ewing

Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow reported from Washington, and Jack Ewing from New York

Dec. 3, 2025

The schisms underscore the growing fragility of the nascent coalition in the waning days of its founder. But the idea that the party can go back to some kind of status quo that existed before Mr. Trump is fanciful. A year after it decisively reset the national direction, MAGA seems slightly lost.

 

What Happens When Trump Has Left the Building?

Divisions are appearing as we all wonder what a post-Trump MAGA looks like. Or if it will even survive.

By 

Gerard Baker

Nov. 24, 2025 5:13 pm ET

Last winter, the federal government released the results of its semi-annual reading and math tests of fourth- and eighth-graders, assessments that are considered the most authoritative measure of the state of learning in American elementary and middle schools. In nearly every category, the scores had plunged to levels unseen for decades—or ever. On reading tests, 40 percent of fourth-graders and one-third of eighth-graders performed below “basic,” the lowest threshold. A separate assessment of 12th-graders conducted this past spring—the first since schools were shuttered by the COVID pandemic—yielded similarly crushing results. Many graduated from high school without the ability to decipher this sentence. How can I assume that? The test asked them to define the word decipher, and 24 percent got it wrong.

 

How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most

Savor the Moment

 Dear Diary:

Late to work on a cold, sunny, spring morning, I decided to take a shortcut through Madison Square Park.

With the sound of traffic and barking dogs behind me, I joined the meeting I was late for via phone and hoped that I would not have to speak.

As it got later, I started to sweat from what had turned into a jog to First Avenue. Dodging the dog walkers, I saw a single white flower petal twirling gently as it fell from the sky.

I stopped and stood still. The sound of traffic, dogs and my meeting seemed to fade away. I was amazed at the beauty of the single, pristine, delicate white petal as it danced through the cool spring air toward the ground.

In my haste to get to work, I had failed to appreciate the beauty of my surroundings: the dogs, the people, the flowers, even the traffic.

The petal landed, and I picked it up. It was clearly a sign that I needed to appreciate the beauty around me, no matter how stressed out I was feeling.

But it wasn’t a flower petal. It was a discarded receipt from the M23-SBS Bus.

And I was late for work.

— David Daniel

Does Mark Gongdolf actually think it would be real for "Landman" characters to talk about the deleterious effect of oil on the climate? Actually this week it had the drilling company's young female lawyer think about it and Billy Bob telling her to grow up

 

Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda

By Mark Gongloff

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Mr. Farley said. “We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” He said Ford is struggling to hire mechanics at salaries that Ivy League grads might envy.

 

Why Ford Can’t Find Mechanics

Forget about reshoring manufacturing without more skilled workers.

By 

The WSJ Editorial Board

Nov. 17, 2025 5:55 pm ET

Many observers have begun calling the new U.S. approach “the Donroe Doctrine” — a term that appeared on a January cover of The New York Post — a Trumpian twist on a 19th-century idea. In 1823, President James Monroe aspired to stop European powers from meddling in the hemisphere.

 

The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere

President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by rewarding allies and punishing rivals. That has upended the region’s politics.

By Jack Nicas

Jack Nicas has been a lead correspondent across Latin America since 2021.

Nov. 17, 2025

Someone needs to tell Trump that its brains not beauty that makes a legal case

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case

The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.

Lindsey Halligan, who had never worked on a criminal case until she was thrust into the Comey prosecution, has faced extensive scrutiny from the moment she took over the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.Credit...Al Drago/Getty Images

By Alan Feuer

Nov. 17, 2025

 

How Trump Lowered Medical Premiums and Expanded Choice

Congress should codify his first-term easing of restrictions of short-term limited-duration insurance.

By 

Michael F. Cannon        

Mr. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Is it possible that an education backwater such as Mississippi is doing better educating young children because its been slow in adopting the new math. More than 40 states have passed laws to ensure reading instruction aligns with sound science. The results have in many cases been dramatic: Mississippi, once ranked 49th in fourth grade reading, now comes in ninth.

 

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn't Adding Up

By The Bloomberg Editorial Board

The Editorial Board publishes the views of the editors across a range of national and global affairs.

“We are not going to get to human-level AI just by scaling LLMs,” Yann Lecun said on Alex Kantrowitz’s Big Technology podcast this spring. “There’s no way, absolutely no way, and whatever you can hear from some of my more adventurous colleagues, it’s not going to happen within the next two years.

 

He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.

Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.

By 

Meghan Bobrowsky

Nov. 14, 2025 9:00 pm ET

Liberal politicos frequently accuse Republicans of slavishly catering to the whims of Mr. Trump. There is truth in the charge. But Mr. Trump will leave office in three years. Progressive nonprofits aren’t going anywhere.

 

Why Schumer Had to Do It

Ordinary Democrats didn’t demand a shutdown. Left-wing nonprofits did.

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By 

Barton Swaim

Nov. 12, 2025 4:21 pm ET

Once viewed as a wunderkind from the beginning of baseball’s data revolution—he was the loose basis of Jonah Hill’s character in the “Moneyball” movie—DePodesta abandoned the sport nearly a decade ago.

 

It’s the Worst Job in Baseball—and the Smartest GMs All Secretly Want It

When the Colorado Rockies hired Moneyball wunderkind Paul DePodesta to resurrect their franchise, he took on what is viewed as the sport’s ultimate sadistic challenge

By 

Jared Diamond

Nov. 12, 2025 7:00 am ET

 

Higher Ed Needs Receivership, Not Reform

The radicals who hollowed out America’s universities can’t be trusted to restore their proper purpose.

Mr. Ellis is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.”

The pressure to perform is becoming unprecedented for these firms, and the evidence suggests they won’t get a passing grade. An MIT study this summer found that of about 300 organizations that bought or built their own generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. AI adoption has declined at large companies, according to Census Bureau surveys. Some observers have also pointed to what looks like circular deal making—a hallmark of the telecom bust. Nvidia is investing $100 billion in OpenAI, which plans to buy millions of Nvidia chips. That sort of funding loop could get dangerous if the market cools.

 

You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business

Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.

By 

Sarah Myers West

 and 

Amba Kak

Nov. 12, 2025 4:45 pm ET

Big Tech’s Soaring Profits Have an Ugly Underside: OpenAI’s Losses

What’s only starting to become clear is that AI startups are also sinkholes for losses

By 

James Mackintosh

Nov. 13, 2025 7:25 am ET

“Trump is trying to solve a problem, but Putin, as we’ve been told, consults Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great for his vision,” said William Courtney, adjunct senior fellow at Rand and a former U.S. ambassador. “He thinks in terms of empire.”

 

What the Looming Fall of a Ukrainian City Says About Putin’s War

By 

Thomas Grove

Nov. 11, 2025 11:00 pm ET