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Opinion
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ORELL: Richard Franke left a legacy on the liberal arts education
By Brent Orell This weekend, the Wall Street Journal marked the passing of Richard J. Franke, former CEO of Nuveen, an asset management firm owned by TIAA. Aside from making his mark…
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TEWS: 5G, Planes, and Progress
By Shane Tews Last week, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies. He said that the aviation industry…
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ABRAMS: New England liberal arts colleges are dangerous to American civility
BY SAMUEL J. ABRAMS With their leafy campuses, visually diverse student bodies, well-stocked libraries, and attentive professors, small liberal arts colleges across New England, the Mid Atlantic, and Midwest are often considered…
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PETHOKOUKIS: So Big Tech massively investing in itself is worrisome now?
By James Pethokoukis Imagine a world much like this one where the most valuable companies were in the technology sector. And like this one, these companies were pretty dominant in their respective…
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POMERLEAU: A progressive corporate income tax doesn’t make a lot of sense
By Kyle Pomerleau The House version of the budget reconciliation bill includes a provision to raise the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to 26.5 percent and reintroduce a progressive rate schedule. Under…
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ORELL: Strong relationships at home improve employment outcomes for adults and children
BY BRENT ORRELL The term “work-life balance” is often credited to Lillian Gilbreth, a psychologist, industrial engineer, educator, and author of a dissertation on living and working efficiently. Lillian, along with her husband, fellow…
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JAMISON: Sens. Klobuchar and Grassley show why Congress should not pass Big Tech legislation
By Mark Jamison America’s founders held a belief that is rare in political leaders these days — namely that they should not be trusted with power. That is a mark of greatness,…
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SCHMITT: Biden’s imperial presidency moment
BY GARY SCHMITT The contrast between Biden’s election margin in 2020 and the GOP’s vote share in down-ticket races suggested that quite a few normally Republican voters could not bring themselves to…
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AKERS: Compromise is in the air for higher education policy
BY BETH AKERS Just last week, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi drew an important line in the sand on the debate over a student loan jubilee. Parting from the Warren-Sanders wing of…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Climate report highlights need for innovation in climate crisis
By James Pethokoukis Norman Borlaug and William Vogt are the two leads in Charles C. Mann’s 2018 book, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future…
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WARREN: Opportunity in the American Rescue Plan
BY PETER WARREN Some New York local governments are soliciting input from residents as they decide how to spend billions in pandemic emergency dollars earmarked in March under the $2.1 trillion federal American…
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SWANSON: Can telemedicine finally boost health care productivity?
By Bret Swanson Necessity is in fact often the mother of invention. A year ago, the arrival of COVID-19 forced a stubborn health care industry to finally begin widespread adoption of internet-based…
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BOWMAN: A third party threat?
BY KARLYN BOWMAN More than 100 Republicans have signed a letter announcing their intention to consider forming a third party if the Republican Party does not make certain changes. What do the polls show…
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PETHOKOUKIS: What America can learn from China’s tech sector crackdown
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Amazon founder Jeff Bezos turned 38 in January 2002, and many of what turned out to be the company’s biggest accomplishments — Amazon Web Services, Amazon Prime, Kindle —…
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POMERLEAU: Lawmakers should not give up on ‘user fees’
BY KYLE POMERLEAU Lawmakers are currently negotiating the details of an infrastructure package. Lawmakers want to avoid adding significantly to the debt but are split on the best method to raise revenue…
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GREENWALT: China already outspends US military?
BY WILLIAM C. GREENWALT Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is under pressure from within his party to hold down defense spending, so he has advocated focusing less on the defense…
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McCUSKER: Biden budget stalls national security
BY ELAINE McCUSKER Last week, the Biden administration released a massive American Jobs Plan. In contrast, today the administration announced a proposed cut to the Defense Department budget. As recommended by the bipartisan…
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ABRAMS: Conservatives should not give up on American education
BY SAMUEL ABRAMS Surveys and reports showing that only small numbers of conservatives and Republicans believe higher education has a positive effect on the country regularly make national news. The explicit rationale for these sentiments is…
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HOWELL: When satellite chickens come home to terrestrial roosts
By Bronwyn Howell For several reasons, 1990s New Zealand was a natural test bed for the deployment of nascent broadband technologies and different business models for their commercialization: It is geographically contained…
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JAMISON: Journalism preservation is based on misinformation
BY MARK JAMISON According to members of Congress, American journalism is on the ropes. “Newspapers are locked in a life-or-death struggle with tech giants,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). “We have seen thousands…
