Investors See Few Alternatives to U.S. Treasuries. Could Europe Make One?
As President Trump’s chaotic economic policies provoke questions about U.S. stability, a proposal for European countries to issue joint debt has drawn attention.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Tom Lehrer reflecting on his bicoastal life in a 1981 interview for Newsday, he said he planned to keep his Massachusetts home “until my brain turns completely to Jell-O, at which time I will of course move to California full time.”
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.
Richard Severo and July 27, 2025
Saturday, July 26, 2025
President Trump believes that President Barack Obama committed treason, a crime that may be punishable by death. Seeking a distraction from his current political travails, Mr. Trump is attempting to relitigate the nearly decade-old controversy over Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump is wrong on the facts and the law, and his sensational allegation serves only to demonstrate how completely he has degraded contemporary political discourse in his attempt to deflect his association with Jeffrey Epstein
The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason
Mr. Toobin is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.”
Friday, July 25, 2025
I'm loving how Democrats are trolling Mr. Trump for fun and political profit, accusing him of covering up damaging information that the Biden Administration also didn’t release. “The American people have a right to know what happened,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said this week. He suggested the House GOP maybe “declared the ‘Epstein Recess’ to give Trump time to prepare papers for the pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell.”
President Trump’s domestic policy law will create big budget problems for many states and cities. Budget shortfalls aren’t new, and neither is the playbook that leaders usually follow. They make across-the-board cuts to programs and raise fees and maybe taxes. Inside government agencies, they emphasize sharing the pain: implementing hiring freezes, instituting furlough days for public employees and laying off workers based on seniority. Nobody is happy, but at least the approach is equitable and minimizes disruption. This is the wrong playbook. Those who follow the across-the-board approach will end up cutting teachers or raising subway fares while protecting jobs that could have been automated years ago. The public is already frustrated with government for unkept promises and often sluggish services. If our leaders simply manage cuts to avoid upheaval, that frustration will only rise. Now is the time for intelligent disruption.
The Cities and States That Are Getting It Right
Robert Gordon and
Mr. Gordon was a senior official in the Biden and Obama administrations. Ms. Pahlka is a former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and the author of “Recoding America.”
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s fresh Democratic nominee for mayor, devotes 126 words and a 43-second TikTok on his website to a signature proposal: “city-owned grocery stores.” This brevity might imply that function will follow form, that the idea is so self-evidently sensible that little needs to be said about it. What this self-assurance shows, though, is that Mr. Mamdani knows nothing about the grocery business, raising broader questions about the practicality of an assertive socialist agenda like his.
The Problem With Grocery Stores Isn’t Profits. It’s Reality.
Ms. Gelinas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Monday, July 21, 2025
Elon Musk's right-wing turn seems to repel many of the crunchy car buyers who once were Tesla’s biggest fans. Foot traffic to Tesla’s stores fell dramatically last fall, as Musk’s political presence became more visible, and inventory of unsold cars began piling up. In May, Matthew LaBrot, a former sales manager who quit the company in protest, told Bloomberg Businessweek’s podcast Elon, Inc. that he believed the company’s redesigned Model Y sedan was selling poorly because the new design made the date of purchase obvious. “You can’t put an ‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on one of these cars,” LaBrot said. “He was already crazy.”
Elon Musk’s Empire Is Creaking Under the Strain of Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX and xAI are struggling to deal with the fallout from Musk’s Trump feud and wild bets.
By Max Chafkin and Edward Ludlow
California’s bullet train, whether or not it ever carries passengers, is a monument to the colossal failures of modern progressive government. From welfare programs to public schools, Democrats make illusory promises as they shovel out money without regard to the results. When will California voters decide they’re tired of getting taken for a ride?
Trump gave Newsom a perfect opportunity to cut his losses and shift blame. Why didn’t he take it?
By Allysia Finley
Wind farms a thousand miles away from their market is no solution either. Use the isolated farms now as source for data center with battery and backup diesel while while building nuclear mini mills that finally take over the heavy load
Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Democrats criticize the Trump team for weaponizing government power to target political opponents. Yet they cheered when Ms. Khan and her two fellow Democratic commissioners leveraged their power over the Chevron-Hess and ExxonMobil-Pioneer Natural Resources acquisitions last year to punish the Biden Administration’s critics.
The FTC makes amends for another Lina Khan abuse of power.
The G.O.P.’s decision to sever the half-century-old pairing of farm handouts with food assistance offers Democratic politicians an opportunity to stop supporting environmentally and fiscally ludicrous subsidies for farmers who wouldn’t dream of voting for Democrats. Instead, they could start pushing sensible policies focused on eaters instead of growers. It’s time someone in Washington did.
Democrats Can Finally Stop Pandering to Farmers
Mr. Grunwald is a contributing Opinion writer based in Miami and the author of “We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.”
Forget transmitting wind electric power long distances just supplement it with gas powered generators locally for data centers
With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project
Grain Belt Express, a transmission line that would cross 800 miles of the Midwest, is at the center of a number of disputes.
Watch Europe cancel F-35 purchases
Brothers in Arms: Macron, Merz and Starmer Plan for a Post-U.S. Future
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain are building parallel diplomatic institutions to defend Europe as President Trump retreats from the continent.
Michael D. Shear and Jim Tankersley
Michael Shear reported from London, and Jim Tankersley from Berlin.
Friday, July 18, 2025
This week I remembered a story about Margaret Thatcher in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down. German reunification was suddenly a possibility. She would play a role. Being Thatcher, she convened experts. Tell me about the essential German nature, she said. Well, said an expert, as a tribe they’re either at your feet or at your throat. That is how Mr. Trump and his base look.
Some Trump supporters look at the refusal to release the files and see a failure to drain the swamp.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Thank you Mario Gabelli for recommending the purchase of BATRA the Atlanta Braves Holdings company
The Braves have been a disappointment on the field, but their Battery Atlanta home has made them the envy of the rest of the sport
Monday, July 14, 2025
When will the market figure out that everything Elon Musk pushes will blow up like a SpaceX rocket failure
Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.
Reporting from San Francisco
World War Two showed Battleships to be useless as the F-35 and F-47 will be in the future
Drones are Key Toward Wining Wars Today. The U.S. Hardly Makes Any
Farah Stockman observed a military training exercise outside Fairbanks, Alaska, involving drone prototypes developed by U.S. companies.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
A Melt-up is much more pleasant than a Melt-down but one like Warren Buffet is staying on the sideline waiting for bargain prices
The Danger of a Market Melt-Up
Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.
Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Marco Rubio is correct in streamlining the State Department best known during my lifetime as "foggy bottom"
Rubio’s Cuts at State Department Demote Longtime U.S. Values
Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists he is streamlining a bloated department, but critics warn the cost to America’s standing and influence could be high.
