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Bret Stephens

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The Destruction of the American Ideal

The Destruction of the American Ideal

Under Trump, we are becoming unrecognizable to our former selves.

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Everything Is Going According to Plan

Everything Is Going According to Plan

Will President Trump’s tariffs go down as one of the 100 worst decisions in presidential history? 50? 10?

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Free Gaza From Its Own Tyrants First

Free Gaza From Its Own Tyrants First

Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza are the first necessary steps on the road to real peace.

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Nothing Ever Goes Wrong in Trump’s White House

Nothing Ever Goes Wrong in Trump’s White House

The problem is that competence and execution matter.

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The Trump Train Is Going Full Speed Ahead

The Trump Train Is Going Full Speed Ahead

This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.

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Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why.

Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why.

More registered voters think America is on the right track than at any point since 2004, a new poll says. What does that mean about Trump?

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Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic

Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic

Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.

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‘A Really Easy Mark for Trump’: Three Columnists on the Threats to Elite Colleges

What went wrong for higher education?

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Democracy Dies in Dumbness

Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.

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Trump Gave Us a Piece of His Mind

The official and unofficial languages of the White House, decoded.

10.03.2025 20

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The (Fatuous) Case for Betraying Ukraine

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist There’s an argument that passes for a sophisticated defense of Donald...

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A Day of American Infamy

A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

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America’s Most Shameful Vote Ever at the U.N.

What happens when we stop “living within the truth.”

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‘​The World Is There for the Carving’: Two Columnists on the Trump-Putin Alliance

We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.

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Vance’s Munich Disgrace

The vice president’s speech was a monument of arrogance based on a foundation of hypocrisy.

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Nothing to See Here. Everything Is Exactly as It Should Be.

The problem is that if we have another three years and 11 months of this, there won’t be a rule of law left in the United States.

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The Horror Show of Hamas Must End Now

The region needs to be put to a choice about Gaza’s future.

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When It Rains, It Pours

Trump is on the move.

10.02.2025 20

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‘Why Don’t Democrats Fight Fire With Fire?’ Three Opinion Writers on a Wounded Party

How do Democrats build trust and faith in them and effectively counter Trump?

06.02.2025 20

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Is This the End of Pax Americana?

We should aim to be a great power, not a big one.

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A Presidency That’s Off the Rails. It Took Only Two Weeks.

But we’ve underestimated Trump’s political strength many times before.

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D.E.I. Will Not Be Missed

The Pentagon’s experience shows why.

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Trump Explodes Out of the Gate

For the president’s opponents, it was a week that felt like a decade.

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Four More Years! Four More Years! Wait. Four More Years?

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

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The Israeli Right May Soon Be Disenchanted With Trump

The president-elect may have the soul of a bully, but he also has the instincts of a dealmaker.

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It’s Not Only Trump We Have to Worry About

It’s way too soon for ideological score settling.

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‘Trump Is at His Absolute Worst in a Crisis’: Three Columnists Imagine the World Ahead

Advertisement Supported by David French, Lydia Polgreen and Bret Stephens By David French Lydia Polgreen and Bret Stephens Mr. French, Ms. Polgreen...

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The Biden Presidency: Four Illusions, Four Deceptions

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist Americans tend to have a soft spot for our former presidents. Even the...

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Done With Never Trump

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Trump Is the Wrong Answer to the Right Question

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The Syria Opportunity

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Pardon You

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Can Rahm Emanuel Flip the Script Again?

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04.12.2024 30

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Defining Deviancy Down. And Down. And Down.

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Avengers, Assemble

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A Worldwide ‘Jew Hunt’

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The Trump Era Never Really Ended

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A Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffers a Humiliating Defeat

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To Whom It May Concern

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Is Something Worrying You?

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A Second Trump Term? Three Conservative Columnists Unpack What Could Happen.

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03.11.2024 9

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A Conservative Case Against Trump

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Crazy Is Beginning to Sound Like an Understatement

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There’s One Main Culprit if Donald Trump Wins

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist The Electoral College. White racism. Black sexism. President Biden....

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Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally

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Sinwar’s Death Is a (Tricky) Opportunity

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist Reading the news that Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s pitiless leader, had been...

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Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist It’s time for Kamala Harris to deliver her closing argument for why she...

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Three Weeks to Go, and That’s All Anyone Is Sure Of

It’s been a long year, but that won’t stop it from being a very long 22 days.

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We Should Want Israel to Win

Even supporters of Palestinian statehood should want Hamas and Hezbollah to lose.

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No One Said It Was Going to Be Easy for Kamala Harris

But tell me again why she isn’t running away with this election?

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