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Opinion | Leave the Flying to Congress?

5 days ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Newark’s airport meltdown is the product of the failure of American lawmakers to do their job for 30 years. Democracy fails not when Donald Trump or a man with a funny mustache shows up, but when elites prove unwilling or unable to meet a crisis. In a small way that’s the story of the air-traffic control mess.
Opinion | Trump’s Bad Hollywood Trade Movie

1 week ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

His tariff proposal brings back the poltergeist of economic uncertainty. The stock market was apparently recovering too much confidence in the Donald Trump administration. He fixed that with his spontaneous 100% tariff on foreign movies. No, it wouldn’t land on Americans the way some of his other tariff acts would.
Opinion | Is Donald Trump a ‘Man of Destiny’?

1 week ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

The discussion that started after Butler, Pa., is revived to make sense of his tariff actions. It was the most “West Wing” thing a president has ever done. Wall Street hates it. Special interests oppose it. But like President Martin Sheen, President Donald Trump is willing to buck the politics-as-usual crowd to do the right thing for the country—his sweeping tariff policy. Except we’re living not in a Hollywood baby-talk version of political reality.
Opinion | Perfect vs. Good in Ukraine

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

In a world of optimal risk-taking, the U.S. would have called Putin’s bluff long ago. A lot of things might have been realistically on the table in the Ukraine negotiation if the U.S. and its European allies had been willing to supply enough force. If Ukraine were armed and supported to take back Russian-occupied territory, Vladimir Putin would have had something to negotiate over.
Opinion | Schlock Art of the Ukraine Peace Deal

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Behind closed doors, self-interest rules. So the possibility of success hasn’t yet been foreclosed. I always guessed the “Art of the Deal” author would eventually suggest that Russia buy Crimea from Ukraine to legalize its 2014 seizure of the strategic peninsula. Put aside Vladimir Putin’s airy fairy rumination on the mystical unity of Ukrainians and Russians. As he admitted days before the current invasion, a practical problem bedeviled Mr. Putin.
WSJ: Kaevudes Trumpi kaubandussõja kihtidesse

3 weeks ago | wallstreetjournal.postimees.ee | Holman Jenkins

Päevatoimetaja:Urho [email protected] vihjeThe Wall Street JournalTellijaleArtikli sisu pärineb partnerväljaandest The Wall Street Journal. Donald Trumpi politseifoto poolehoidja T-särgil Iowas 7. oktoobril 2023. Foto: JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERSÄsja sai pälvitud pahameeleavaldusi pealkirja pärast, et taas võib soolas olla Trumpi tagandamise katse. Mida mu kriitikud tähele ei pannud, oli tegusõna tahab – et ta tahaks seda.
Opinion | Understanding Trump’s Trade War

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

The world now faces a known unknown. It may be months or years before a comfortably intelligible trade-policy equilibrium is re-established. In vain, we search for precedents. By August 1941, Roosevelt inaugurated a trade war with Japan. embargoing its supply of important metals and oil. It took until MacArthur in 1947 to negotiate new terms for our interdependence. A lot of things happened in between.
Opinion | On Green Energy, Now They Tell Us

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

“Rather than replacing conventional energy sources,” they write, “the growth of renewables is coming on top of that of conventional sources.”Yawn, say regular readers of this column. Total energy output is growing and so are emissions even as renewables are also growing. In one way the authors pull their punches. The only force working to moderate emissions is the age-old human quest for efficiency.
Opinion | Don’t Let Ukraine Be a Trade Victim

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Ending the war would genuinely further America’s domestic and global interests. The Trump trade-policy gong show seems likely to become a personnel gong show when the president starts looking around for scapegoats. The chaos bodes ill for sustained, disciplined effort in other areas, and the costs could be bigger than we’re ready for. Americans are sympathetic to Ukraine, and should be.
Opinion | Trump Wants to Be Impeached Again

1 month ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

It’s already in the cards thanks to his ill-founded trade war, no matter how that war plays out. This week the system worked. Donald Trump blinked. The unwinding is still just beginning. It will be painful and tumultuous. A grief-filled fight lies ahead over whether his trade actions have even been legal and constitutional. Many slips between cup and lip are to be expected. China and the U.S. are rushing toward an unplanned total stoppage of trade.