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What other newspapers are saying: Nuclear innovation in the age of AI

Editorials

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. For decades, the climate-friendly industry has been held back by overly burdensome regulations, but that’s beginning to change. In the 1960s, plants took about four years to build, and they cost, in today’s dollars, about $1,500 per kilowatt of electricity generated. Now the idea of building a reactor in less than a decade is unheard of, and the cost of construction is six times greater. The Energy Department took steps this month to exempt certain advanced ...

Prescriptions by mail

Letters

Do you get your prescriptions by mail? One of mine started its journey at a U.S. Post Office in Egg Harbor Township, NJ at 7:41 a.m. on February 5. By 8:56 a.m. it was at the Philadelphia Regional Distribution Facility and it was on its way to the next facility by 3:52 that afternoon. At 6:09 p.m. it was at the Harrisburg distribution Center. So far so good. But when my medicine had not arrived by Monday, February 9 -- four days later! -- I checked with the USPS tracking system and the shipment showed as “in transit to next facility.” This morning -- Wednesday, February -- I ...

Protect the Fourth Amendment

Letters

The Fourth Amendment guarantees “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Most Americans are not subjected to constant suspicion, arbitrary searches, or the fear of armed intrusions into their private sanctuaries. These practices obliterate personal security and freedom. Yet the Fourth Amendment is applied far more loosely in the border zone, where federal agents wield “extraordinary” authority. In this zone, agents may conduct warrantless searches of anyone—citizen or not—and carry out ...

Higher education deserves real conversation

Editorials

Sian Leah Beilock, president of Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, N.H., presented a bold assessment of higher education in this country in an opinion article she wrote for the Jan. 26 edition of the Wall Street Journal. No doubt the bold ...

Inflation may force lawmakers to finally touch the ‘Third Rail’

Other Commentaries

Your representatives may finally grab the feared “third rail” of U.S. politics. When the Social Security and Medicare trust funds run out in the early 2030s, the law is clear: Benefits must be slashed. That would mean a roughly 24% cut to Social Security checks and an 11% cut to Medicare benefits. But Congress almost certainly won’t let that happen. The easy, though irresponsible, political path may seem obvious: Change the law, keep benefits whole, and pay by borrowing the money. This way legislators won’t have to cast unpopular votes for spending cuts or tax hikes. This makes ...

US setting the course for NATO

Other Commentaries

Europe stands at a crossroads. To save itself and our cherished Transatlantic alliance, it must not only change policy but also recommit itself to the common inheritance of Western civilization. That was the message Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered this weekend at the Munich Security Conference in a defining foreign policy speech of our time. At an affair best known for platitudes and navel-gazing, he diagnosed the roots of Europe’s decline and provided a clear vision for how America and its European allies can unite, again, to preserve the most important alliance in human ...