Archive: The Wall Street Journal

Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia I have no reason to doubt the Durham report, but it’s still curious that Trump treated Putin so gently.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Some thoughts on Trump/Russia occasioned by the release of the Durham report, which found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation got ahead of itself in launching a full-scale probe of allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, that it relied too much on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” and that partisan hostility played a determinative […]

CNN Brings Donald Trump Back What a disaster. But maybe he can be defeated in a big, needed brawl for the GOP nomination.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Well, that was a disaster, a politically historic one. It situated Donald Trump as the central figure of the 2024 presidential cycle, certainly more compelling than the incumbent or the other competitors. It will have an impact on the campaign’s trajectory. When it was over I thought, of CNN: Once again they’ve made Trump real. […]

Of Course Trump Is Afraid to Debate It isn’t 2016 anymore. He’s older and out of political shape, and his absence would hurt his rivals.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump will be going on CNN next week, for a live Town Hall, for several reasons: To mix it up, like the old days. To be the dramatic focus of attention in a potentially sparky environment, like the old days. To remind people of positive things they experienced during his administration. […]

Biden vs. Trump in 2024? Don’t Be So Sure Look at voters’ faces when you describe the match-up and you’ll realize they’re open to alternatives.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Look at people’s faces when you say, “Looks like it’ll be Biden and Trump.” Those faces tell you everything—the soft wince, the shake of the head, the sigh. Those are the emblems of the 2024 campaign right now. Seventy percent of his own party doesn’t want Joe Biden to run. More than half his party […]

Artificial Intelligence in the Garden of Eden People in the tech world want, unconsciously, to be God and on some level think they are God.

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The dawn of the internet age was so exciting. I took my grade-school son, enthralled by Apple computers, to see Steve Jobs speak at a raucous convention in New York almost a quarter-century ago. What fervor there was. At a seminar out West 30 years ago I attended a lecture by young, wild-haired Nathan Myhrvold, […]

I Stand With Evan Gershkovich He isn’t a spy. He is a reporter in the hallowed tradition of those who risk it all to get the story.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Thinking over here about the free press. What an ideal, what a human achievement. You know the hallowed stories. The first investigative newspaper series is generally credited to W.T. Stead, whose “The Maiden Tribute of Babylon,” caused a sensation in 19th-century England. Stead was a rascally man and born crusader. In 1885, while editor of […]

A Great Man Got Arrested as President Ulysses S. Grant was picked up for ‘fast driving’ in 1872—during his first term in the White House.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

We need a palate cleanser. It is Easter (whose theme is resurrection and salvation), Passover (freedom and remembering) and Ramadan (devotion). So let us go back to affectionate days and men of stature. It has been noted that the first and only previous American president to be arrested was Ulysses S. Grant. He was arrested […]

A Six-Month AI Pause? No, Longer Is Needed It’s crucial that we understand the dangers of this technology before it advances any further.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Artificial intelligence is unreservedly advanced by the stupid (there’s nothing to fear, you’re being paranoid), the preening (buddy, you don’t know your GPT-3.4 from your fine-tuned LLM), and the greedy (there is huge wealth at stake in the world-changing technology, and so huge power). Everyone else has reservations and should. It is being developed with […]

The Wrong Indictment Against Trump Stormy Daniels wasn’t an offense against America. Focus on Georgia and the Jan. 6 riots instead.

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Two topics, both having to do with presidencies. The New York Times last week recounted the memories of Ben Barnes, 84, who traveled to the Mideast in the summer of 1980, at the height of the U.S. presidential election, with his political mentor, Texas political powerhouse John Connally. There, Mr. Barnes said, Connally urged heads […]

Ron DeSantis Is Definitely Running He presents himself as a serious, forward-leaning, pro-business, antiwoke conservative Republican.

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The first GOP presidential debate is five months away, in August. Primaries begin about six months after. This thing is on. Some observations on Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor is definitely running. Every sign is there: donors, a growing and increasingly professional organization, a book that is part memoir, part platform and debuted this week […]