By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – April 7, 2025 In the days after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, he was a young boy living in a small town. As American troops moved to occupy the country, the mood was one of panicked terror. The Japanese had been told by their leaders that the victorious Americans would...

The battle over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood takes center stage at the Supreme Court in a South Carolina dispute over Medicaid providers.

The world’s business leaders are worried. Donald Trump’s return to power and the growing hostility of China and Russia are upending 80 years of international rules-based order. In its place is emerging a more chaotic and volatile world, where conflict is commonplace and state actor aggression online continues to escalate.

The whole thing was hastily assembled, sloppy, and riddled with errors. Source: Donald Trump’s Tariffs: No Genius Plan | National Review

Trump unveiled the new tariffs in a ceremony at the White House’s Rose Garden on Wednesday for a “Make America Wealthy Again” event.

A 2018 Axios poll found that 61% of Democrats consider Republicans “racist/bigoted/sexist” versus 31% of Republicans who feel likewise about Democrats. One wonders whether “only” 61% of Democrats still think this way about Republicans.

Target is the latest in a string of retail giants who have taken a stance against the wildly unpopular diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs afflicting corporate America. Target’s move comes in the wake of similar action by other big-name companies, including Meta, Walmart, Amazon, and Tractor Supply Co., which have all scaled back their DEI policies in recent months....

  Bringing back American manufacturing won’t be easy, Erin McLaughlin writes in a guest commentary. Source: Trump Wants to Reshore U.S. Manufacturing. It Could Take Years. – Barron’s

FNC’s Jesse Watters commented on Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs:

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 3, 2025 Blowing up the world trading system has consequences that the President isn’t advertising. All details aren’t clear as we write this, but Mr. Trump’s tariffs look “reciprocal” in name only. First he’s hitting every nation in the world with a 10% “baseline” tariff to sell in the U.S. market. For...