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John Fetterman Plays Against Type
1Jan By adminNo Comments
Business

John Fetterman Plays Against Type

West Mifflin, Pa.It’s a warm December morning, and Sen. John Fetterman is walking along the Great Allegheny Passage across the Monongahela River from his home in Braddock. “I spend as much time as I can out here,” he says of the trail, which runs 150 miles from downtown Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Md.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Auto Insurers Can Go With the Flo
31Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Auto Insurers Can Go With the Flo

Those ubiquitous insurance ads, with characters like Progressive’s Flo, or Geico’s Gecko, were probably a bit harder to spot in 2023. Home-and-auto insurers faced tough conditions as they worked to increase their rates to keep up with some fast-rising claim costs and cut back on marketing spending. But with underwriting performance at Progressive steadying in the most recent reports, and inflation in auto-repair costs slowing but sticking around in car-insurance costs, it wouldn’t be a shock to see Flo a bit more in 2024—as well as flows into stocks such as Progressive.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Auto Insurers Can Go With the Flo
31Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Auto Insurers Can Go With the Flo

Those ubiquitous insurance ads, with characters like Progressive’s Flo, or Geico’s Gecko, were probably a bit harder to spot in 2023. Home-and-auto insurers faced tough conditions as they worked to increase their rates to keep up with some fast-rising claim costs and cut back on marketing spending. But with underwriting performance at Progressive steadying in the most recent reports, and inflation in auto-repair costs slowing but sticking around in car-insurance costs, it wouldn’t be a shock to see Flo a bit more in 2024—as well as flows into stocks such as Progressive.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism
8Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism

What constitutes bullying and harassment at Harvard? A mandatory Title IX training last year warned all undergraduate students that “cisheterosexism,” “fatphobia” and “using the wrong pronouns” qualified as “abuse” and perpetuated “violence” on campus. But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: “It depends on the context.” Pressed further, she said it would qualify “when it crosses into conduct.” I received similar answers from the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
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From Which River to Which Sea?
5Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

From Which River to Which Sea?

When college students who sympathize with Palestinians chant “From the river to the sea,” do they know what they’re talking about? I hired a survey firm to poll 250 students from a variety of backgrounds across the U.S. Most said they supported the chant, some enthusiastically so (32.8%) and others to a lesser extent (53.2%). But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew who Yasser Arafat was (12 of them, or more than 10%, thought he was the first prime minister of Israel). Asked in what decade Israelis and Palestinians had signed the Oslo Accords, more than a quarter of th...
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So You Think You Want a Political Fighter?
19Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

So You Think You Want a Political Fighter?

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.  A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow a...
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On Anti-Semitism, Labour Is a Cautionary Tale for Democrats
5Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

On Anti-Semitism, Labour Is a Cautionary Tale for Democrats

Keir Starmer is trying to do the right thing on Israel, he really is. Whether the leader of Britain’s center-left Labour Party will succeed is another matter, and a question of significance for U.S. Democrats.In the weeks since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, Mr. Starmer has emerged as a supporter of the Jewish state’s right to self-defense, by European standards anyway. This includes an Oct. 11 radio interview during which he said Israel “does have that right” to blockade Gaza. In a speech Tuesday, despite hemming and hawing about the dangers to Gazan civilians, he added that he wouldn’t support a cease-fire, as it would leave Hamas free to carry out future attacks.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Should Transgender Treatments Be Available to Minors?
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Should Transgender Treatments Be Available to Minors?

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss gender dysphoria and “gender transition” procedures for children under 18. Next week we’ll ask, “The state police are investigating anti-Semitic threats at Cornell, while Jewish students at NYU were advised to hide in the library as a mob surged onto campus. Years of campus agitation against Israel seem to have boiled over since the attacks of Oct. 7 into visible anti-Semitism in America’s universities. How should the nation’s campuses deal with this? What are we to make of a recent poll finding that 18- to 25-year-olds support Hamas at more than double the rate of older generations?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before Nov. 7. The best responses will be published that night.Copyright ©2023 Dow J...
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‘Sorry’ for Being So Blunt
30Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

‘Sorry’ for Being So Blunt

What a luxury anonymity is. In the Dark Age of cancel culture, the un-self-conscious behavior and unpoliced thoughts of a private citizen are underrated. Yes, the fervent hordes clattering around TikTok and reality TV attest that many still prize celebrity, influence and their attendant financial promise. But fame’s pitfalls, heightened by the eternal internet, also are underrated.Consider Emily Blunt, a movie star who recently prostrated herself after being savaged online for fat-shaming. Her offense? Describing a woman who served her at Chili’s as “enormous.” Ms. Blunt unleashed the epithet more than a decade ago on “The Jonathan Ross Show,” a U.K. television program where she was appearing to flog her latest film. Mr. Ross, who like Ms. Blunt is British, was whooping it up with his gue...
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