No one’s going into accounting, according to the Wall Street Journal. It was once considered one of the most stable career choices, a launchpad into the upper-middle class. But now, WSJ says, people are losing interest in it. NTD talked with some accountants to find out why.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Wall Street Journal reporter, accusing him of espionage on behalf of the United States. The FSB, the top domestic security and counterintelligence agency that succeeded the Soviet-era KGB, said on March 29 that it had detained Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow-based correspondent, in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, roughly 900 miles […]
The Wall Street Journal and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research published a new poll on priorities that once defined the national character of the U.S. The survey found that Americans now consider such values to be less important than in the past.
Stanford University administrators published a guide to “harmful language” that calls for the elimination of words including “man” and “American.” The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans on eliminating from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with. Stanford published in May what it calls […]
We are constantly getting hacked. A person touches, clicks, and swipes their phone approximately 2,600 times each day. With short bursts of information continuously coming at us, our productivity goes way down. We never experience the joy, abundance, and fulfillment in life because we are being interrupted and distracted nonstop. The Wall Street Journal and […]
KARACHI, Pakistan—Pakistan’s government on Friday appealed to the Supreme Court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after the United States expressed “deep concerns” over the ruling. A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday acquitted Ahmad Omar Saeed […]
As Congress prepares at least another trillion-dollar support package, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend titled “The Rescues Ruining Capitalism.” A very detailed analysis of what we’re seeing right now. What really stood out to me was the impact on American innovation and entrepreneurship. I asked Daniel Lacalle about it […]
China announced that it revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporters on Feb. 19, marking the country’s largest expulsion of foreign media in decades. Beijing made the decision in retaliation over the publication’s Feb. 3 column headlined “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang […]
Brett Kavanaugh, the judge who President Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, has written an op-ed defending himself while admitting he got too emotional during a public hearing after he was accused of gang rape and sexual assault without any evidence supporting the claims. Kavanaugh penned […]
