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(FILES) In this file photo a Yale University student is seen on campus on November 8, 2010 in New Haven, Connecticut. - The Justice Department accused Yale University on August 13, 2020 of violating US civil rights law by illegally discriminating against white and Asian American applicants. The department's finding -- which Yale rejected as "meritless" -- came after a two-year investigation into the undergraduate admissions process at the prestigious Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP)

Dangerous consequences of putting race first

Yale University’s civil rights fight shows how preferencing race alone plays out in practice: more discrimination divides and feeds resentment.

Gerard Baker

booksThe Times

Case against Trump, again

An entertaining canter through the canon of Donald Trump’s alleged presidential crimes.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

Democratic vice presidential running mate, US Senator Kamala Harris, speaks during the first press conference with Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 12, 2020. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

In Harris, ambition triumphs principle

Kamala Harris is politically and ideologically flexible, dropping passionately held positions the moment they become inconvenient.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

A woman and her son take pictures during the reopening of the Top of The Rock observation deck on August 6, 2020 in New York City. - The Top of the Rock was forced to temporarily close in March to help limit the spread of COVID-19. However, the Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center has the benefit of being one of the largest in New York City, with more than 9,500 square feet (883 square meters) of outdoor deck space. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

Untangling media myths of COVID-19

Has there been in recent history a more hysterical, data-denying and disreputable exercise in misdirection than the US media’s coverage of the pandemic?

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Times

Former US President Barack Obama speaks during the funeral of late Representative and Civil Rights leader John Lewis(D-GA) at the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30, 2020. - Lewis, a 17-term Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from the southern state of Georgia, died of pancreatic cancer on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Alyssa Pointer / POOL / AFP)

Obama joins Democrats’ lurch to the left

The obsequies at John Lewis’s funeral last week provided a fascinating glimpse of the changes in US politics in recent years.

Gerard Baker

commentaryThe Times

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 26, 2020 Security personnel stand in a cloud of tear gas in Portland, Oregon early July 26, 2020, as protests continue across the United States following the death in Minneapolis of unarmed African-American George Floyd. - Federal forces deployed in the US city of Portland, rocked by weeks of clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, will start pulling out of the city on July 30, 2020, the state governor announced. "After my discussions with (Vice President Mike) Pence and others, the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from Portland," Oregon governor Kate Brown tweeted on July 29, 2020. (Photo by Ankur Dholakia / AFP)

US mayors back savage revolutionaries

In their desperation to defeat Donald Trump, Democratic officials have sided with violent protesters against their own police.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Times

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press during the renewed briefing of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Don’t write off Trump’s re-election chances

Donald Trump is trailing in the polls but those polled skew toward the Democrats who are less likely to vote than Republicans.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

PROVO, UT - JULY 01: People supporting the Black Lives Matter movement protest on the steps of the Old Utah County Court House on July 1, 2020 in Provo, Utah. This is the first protest since Monday evening when a 60-year-old SUV driver was shot. George Frey/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

The news media becomes fluent in Newspeak

George Orwell’s observation that language shapes thought holds true for COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.

Gerard Baker

CommentaryThe Wall Street Journal

US President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable with stakeholders positively impacted by law enforcement, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 13, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Democracy dies in darkness, but don’t blame Trump

Donald Trump’s enemies warned there would be an all-out assault on freedom of speech when he was elected US President. Then they launched one.

Gerard Baker

WORLD COMMENTARYThe Wall Street Journal

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - JULY 04: Demonstrators carry chains during the Black 4th protest in downtown on July 4, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A number of protest demonstrations occurred around the Twin Cities on Independence Day which were critical of the annual American celebration. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Elites betray the people in casting US as the evil empire

The US hasn’t passed from great to evil in 20 years. But elites have failed and betrayed the American people.

Gerard Baker

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