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Bret Stephens

Wall Street Journal

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D.E.I. Will Not Be Missed

D.E.I. Will Not Be Missed

The Pentagon’s experience shows why.

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Trump Explodes Out of the Gate

Trump Explodes Out of the Gate

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

tuesday 40

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

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

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

21.01.2025 40

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The Israeli Right May Soon Be Disenchanted With Trump

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.

17.01.2025 100

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It’s Not Only Trump We Have to Worry About

It’s Not Only Trump We Have to Worry About

It’s way too soon for ideological score settling.

15.01.2025 50

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

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08.01.2025 40

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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...

08.01.2025 30

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Done With Never Trump

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19.12.2024 100

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Trump Is the Wrong Answer to the Right Question

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17.12.2024 20

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The Syria Opportunity

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11.12.2024 6

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Pardon You

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09.12.2024 20

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Can Rahm Emanuel Flip the Script Again?

Advertisement Supported by Bret stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist There’s a buzz around Rahm Emanuel — the former Bill Clinton...

04.12.2024 30

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Defining Deviancy Down. And Down. And Down.

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist It’s been a little more than three decades since Daniel Patrick...

20.11.2024 50

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Avengers, Assemble

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18.11.2024 30

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A Worldwide ‘Jew Hunt’

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12.11.2024 4

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The Trump Era Never Really Ended

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11.11.2024 20

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A Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffers a Humiliating Defeat

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07.11.2024 550

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To Whom It May Concern

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06.11.2024 20

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Is Something Worrying You?

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04.11.2024 10

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

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03.11.2024 8

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A Conservative Case Against Trump

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30.10.2024 400

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Crazy Is Beginning to Sound Like an Understatement

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28.10.2024 20

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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....

23.10.2024 90

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Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally

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21.10.2024 40

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Sinwar’s Death Is a (Tricky) Opportunity

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19.10.2024 10

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Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.

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16.10.2024 100

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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.

14.10.2024 10

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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?

07.10.2024 40

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The Year American Jews Woke Up

American Jews need to recover their instinct for danger.

04.10.2024 300

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Actually, We Absolutely Do Need to Escalate in Iran

Iran now presents an intolerable threat to Israel, America and the liberal-international order.

02.10.2024 50

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Eric Adams Gives New Meaning to Frequent-Flier Program

That doesn’t mean the charges will stick.

30.09.2024 30

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Hezbollah Is Everyone’s Problem

The United States must help Israel defeat it.

25.09.2024 400

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Just When You Thought Politics Couldn’t Get Any Grosser

The Mark Robinson story is yet another case of self-declared morality being at variance with actual behavior.

23.09.2024 60

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We Cannot Go On Like This

Is there a way for us to make the “American berserk” a little less ... berserk?

16.09.2024 40

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A Hostage Deal Is a Poison Pill for Israel

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04.09.2024 100

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This Is Not What Trump Had in Mind

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02.09.2024 60

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Can We Be a Little Less Selective With Our Moral Outrage?

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28.08.2024 100

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Kamala Harris Has Left the Building

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26.08.2024 30

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How to Handle the Next Campus Protest

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21.08.2024 30

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Kamala Harris Takes Her First Big Risk

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19.08.2024 2

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Naftali Bennett Needs to Topple Two Regimes

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14.08.2024 70

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The World That Awaits the Next President

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07.08.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Makes Quite an Entrance

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05.08.2024 20

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The Market Doesn’t Always Get It Right

Wisdom rooted in experience and expertise should mean something.

31.07.2024 9

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Israel’s Five Wars

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31.07.2024 90

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Harris vs. Trump Is Taking Shape. And Then There’s Vance.

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29.07.2024 20

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Democrats Deserved a Contest, Not a Coronation

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24.07.2024 100

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Can Kamala Harris Step Up? Asking for a Friend.

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22.07.2024 20

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The Secret of Trump’s Resurrection

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17.07.2024 80

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