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The NFL Stops Indulging a Dangerous Narrative
The new national-anthem policy will help put to rest the myth that America is awash in police murders.
Jason L. Riley
Editorial Board Member, The Wall Street JournalJason Riley is a member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. He joined the paper in 1994 as a copyreader on the national news desk in New York. He moved to the editorial page in 1995 as copyreader and later became a copy editor. In April 1996, he was named to the newly created position of editorial interactive editor and maintained the editorial and Leisure & Arts section of WSJ.com. He was named a senior editorial page writer in March 2000, and member of the Editorial Board in 2005.
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Why Ben Carson Is Raising Rents
HUD’s plan would increase the minimum to $150, but it also includes needed flexibility for cities.
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Bill Cosby Couldn’t Pull the Race Card—Unlike O.J. Simpson
Is this some measure of progress? Maybe. But black leaders long ago wrote the comedian off as an ‘elitist.’
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Teachers on Strike
The AFT and NEA don’t have students’ best interests at heart any more than the UAW has those of auto buyers.
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Revising History, Hollywood Style
The star of ‘The Breakfast Club’ discovers the 1985 film promotes ‘female subjugation.’
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Trump’s Big Gamble
His trade and immigration policies put at risk his advances on the tax and regulatory fronts.
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Martin Luther King: ‘We Can’t Keep On Blaming the White Man’
Fifty years after his death, many pay lip service to his ideals, but far too few are following his example.
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Double Standards Won’t Close the Racial Learning Gap
And racial preferences set up bright students—who otherwise would be excelling at less-selective schools—to fail at elite colleges.
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Lessons From the Rise of America’s Irish
They arrived dirt poor and uneducated in the 1840s. After decades of struggle, they achieved prosperity.
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50 Years of Blaming Everything on Racism
The 1968 Kerner report on urban riots absolved blacks of responsibility and ignored real progress.
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Gun Control Misses the Point
Confiscation and mass disarmament are pipe dreams. There are better ways to improve school safety.
