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Today: @jamesbmeigs outlines Trump’s best path forward; @jackbutler4815 goes to Texas; @DavQuinn criticizes Irish reception of the Bidens; and Ashley McGuire approves of the Kids Online Safety Act. Plus, @MattHennessey says democracy won’t stop socialists.wsj.com/opinion/free-express…
The last time Congress passed any kind of meaningful law to protect children online was nearly 30 years ago. It’s a colossal absurdity that we’ve waited so long to update our laws and protect vulnerable minors, writes Ashley McGuire
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Can a large state school implement a liberal arts college curriculum? UT-Austin aims to find out. My latest in @WSJFreeEx:
After reading through the victims’ testimonies, as well as revisiting decades of Russell Brand content, I have concluded that attempts to pin his crimes on any one political faction or social malaise fail to capture the whole story, writes @Louise_m_perry
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Joe and Hunter Biden got a glimpse at Trinity of the ugliness that has overtaken Ireland since 2023. For a small country with a reputation as an open and welcoming place, it isn’t a good look, writes @DavQuinn on.wsj.com/3UShgfY
Hegseth may end up a Belknap-style footnote someday. But the political deterioration this spectacle symbolizes and worsens will be harder to forget. We’ll have to live with it, writes @jackbutler4815
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Did people actually have it better in the 1950s?
In my latest for @WSJFreeEx, I debunk some common nostalgic myths.
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“Irish political elites wanted to bask in the glamor of a visit by [the Bidens]... they forgot that they’ve turned hatred of...Israel, into almost a national duty.” (My latest in @WSJFreeEx). @Alan__Shatter @RachelMoiselle @simonmontefiore
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Thursday's @WSJFreeEx has all this and me on the unfalsifiable claims of French economics.
It isn’t unusual for the University of Texas at Austin to run an experiment. It is unusual, however, for a school that welcomes about 10,000 freshmen a year to experiment on them, writes @jackbutler4815
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The crises of today can matter without it being true that the past was a better place, says @emmma_camp_.
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What’s left for the Trump administration? asks @jamesbmeigs on.wsj.com/48OlSqO
I hope you didn’t think a little thing like democracy would stop the socialists, writes @MattHennessey
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Like so many things in life, the beef inflation seemed to happen gradually, then all at once, writes @MattHennessey
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It seems we all, like Trump, believe our enemies are too toxic, too evil and too antagonistic toward us to deserve our forgiveness, writes @madelineefry
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A younger coach may have escalated the situation, siding with the TV broadcast team and taking a shot at his player. John Harbaugh did nothing of the sort. As always, a coach needs to keep the trust of his locker room, writes @AMBS_Kernan
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Just as the outcome of the midterms was likely predetermined, so too was the attempted scapegoating of John Thune, writes @zach_kessel
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Though Russell Brand was neither nice nor reliable, he compensated with a surfeit of talent—so much, seemingly, that he was forgiven for his other lapses, writes @Louise_m_perry
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The idea that criticizing Hegseth is insulting the troops actually is insulting to the troops. That doesn’t make a case for impeachment, writes @jackbutler4815
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Americans like our beef. We each eat an average of 67 pounds of it a year. The way things are going, some of us are going to have to cut back. Waaaay back, writes @MattHennessey
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