March 3, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET Recently, the head of antitrust for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, Gail Slater, resigned from her post. Per reports, this stemmed in large part from tension with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who grew frustrated with Slater’s insistence on blocking a merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprises, or HPE, and…
Dec. 18, 2025, 5:05 a.m. ET When the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition announced recently its high school winners in Paris, the grand prize went to a Chinese team from Shenzhen. Six of the nine runners-up were also from China. Only one American school ‒ Lambert High in suburban Atlanta ‒ made it into the…
Updated Dec. 10, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ET President Donald Trump and his team of advisers spend all day, every day, seeking adversaries to tangle with, so they can assign blame for any problem in America that Trump cannot or will not fix. The truth is never an obstacle when Team Trump feels an acute need…
I’ve got some bad news for you today that will probably be as unsurprising as it is disappointing: Your check from Donald Trump is not in the mail. The president has spent much of the first year of his second term promising to send Americans “dividend” checks, but nothing ever comes of it. And that’s…
I voted for President Donald Trump, and I support a lot of his policies and politics: Lowering taxes, brokering peace deals and ordering strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. I’ve never supported Trump because he had stellar character, integrity or a squeaky-clean past. I don’t think he does, nor do I even know Republicans who believe he’s a model of…
President Donald Trump, after watching his Republican Party take a thorough thrashing from Democrats on Election Day, briefly appeared to be on the edge of learning a lesson. Being Trump, he cast a common concept – affordability – as some unique insight he discovered that drove the success for Democratic candidates in New York, New…
President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies in Congress, eager to help him rewrite the history of criminal investigations into his conduct after he lost the 2020 election, might have inadvertently offered us all a path to transparency about some of his alleged lawlessness. Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed in 2022 to investigate Trump’s attempts to…