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The moral case for capitalism

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Capitalism comes from freedom. Socialism requires coercion. Regardless of Tuesday's election results, one thing is certain. Along with welcoming the Democratic Socialists of America into their party, Democrats are rapidly embracing socialism. Several DSA candidates are going to win in deep-blue congressional districts. Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries has already said they are welcome in his caucus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said recently that the DSA and the "demand for bold change" are going "mainstream." Polling shows that the public is increasingly open to socialism. A ...

SpaceX CEO misses the real 'bloodthirsty warmongers' in Moscow.

Editorials

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Ukraine says its satellite access is finally back to full speed, but the throttling episode of recent weeks has mushroomed into a larger story about the Trump Administration and an indispensable battlefield technology. Elon Musk did himself no favors over the weekend with a credulous social-media outburst about the Russia-Ukraine war. Nobody is stepping up to take credit for slowing down Ukraine’s eyes and ears in the sky. Mr. Musk’s odd explanation is that Ukraine violated the “terms of service” of Starlink, a commercial product, by using it for ...

A solution for the SOBE saga

Guest columnists

The situation with SOBE and its terribly mismanaged asset, the old Youngstown Thermal System, is now at a breaking point, threatening to shut down YTS permanently, thus leaving downtown Youngstown as a cold ghost town. SOBE is now reportedly taking actions to disconnect heat and hot water ...

The unauthorized war

Guest columnists

President Donald Trump says that the Iran war will end "soon," a promise he's been making most of this year. Eventually, he will be right, but it hasn't happened in time for the midterm elections, and his party is bearing the brunt. If Republicans get thumped, all the polling suggests that prices will be one of the main reasons, with the Iran war's contribution to higher costs looming large. According to a recent New York Times/Siena poll, 65% disapprove of President Trump's handling of the war in Iran, and almost 75% disapprove of his handling of gas prices, two closely intertwined ...

Isn't this an attack on democracy?

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Isn't this an attack on democracy? In August, Mary Peltola told Alaskans, "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!" Her campaign might have wanted to check its own text messages before she said it. According to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday, top Peltola aides in the summer of 2025 told a staffer to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible. Dan S. Sullivan is Alaska's Republican senator, and a second Dan Sullivan on the state's four-candidate general election ballot could confuse enough voters to cost him the seat. ...