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Bret Stephens

Wall Street Journal

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Why Mamdani Frightens Jews Like Me

A candidate who stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists.

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When Vanity Is Your Superpower

Ten years into the Trump era, Democrats still don’t seem to know how to respond.

16.10.2025 20

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Why Israel Won the War

Why Israel Won the War

Israelis went to war to defeat an existential threat — and an existential lie.

15.10.2025 70

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A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

11.10.2025 90

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Lessons From a Long War

The only viable path to a Palestinian state is an end to the fantasy of Israel’s destruction.

07.10.2025 60

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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

Or does he?

25.09.2025 40

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Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again

That’s often not been the case in recent years.

24.09.2025 60

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America Darkens

After the heartache and fury of the past week, it’s good to talk.

18.09.2025 40

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Our Vanishing Culture of Argument

What the University of Chicago might have taught Charlie Kirk — and the rest of us.

17.09.2025 90

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Gesture Politics Won’t Help Palestinians

But diaspora Jews will pay an ugly price.

10.09.2025 60

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Our Entire Democracy May Be Riding on Whether Democrats Can Find the Right Leaders

Is there a way for them to get rid of the scarlet L, for loser?

04.09.2025 50

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Mass Migration and Liberalism’s Fall

A decade on, Angela Merkel’s immigration disaster has created a right-wing surge.

03.09.2025 90

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Donald Trump’s Assault on Capitalism

Trump’s personalized control of growing swaths of the economy will harm American economic freedom and competitiveness.

27.08.2025 4

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Trump Just Reminded Me of Why I’m Still a Neocon

By putting the interests of what Trump calls “peace” ahead of the interests of freedom, we are all-but guaranteeing that Ukraine will lose both.

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A Half-Baked Alaska Summit

The meeting is a bad idea, but there’s an opportunity for Trump to punish Putin’s thievery.

13.08.2025 20

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Where Can Gaza Go From Here?

No thoughtful person can be pro-Palestinian without also being anti-Hamas.

06.08.2025 80

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The Trump Presidency Takes a Better Turn

If Trump’s opponents want to be effective, we have to come to grips with realities that have so far eluded us.

30.07.2025 100

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No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza

The charge isn’t only obscene. It’s also absurd.

23.07.2025 200

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Mamdani for Mayor (if You Want to Help the Republicans)

Get ready for the G.O.P. to run against “Mamdani Democrats” for several election cycles to come.

16.07.2025 70

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For Israel, It Pays to Be a Winner

Diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East are the result of military victories.

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What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Really Means

Will liberals keep making excuses for Mamdani?

02.07.2025 200

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An Iran Strategy for Trump

First, destroy Fordo. Then make the mullahs an offer they can’t refuse.

19.06.2025 8

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Israel Had the Courage to Do What Needed to Be Done

All the other options have run their course.

14.06.2025 60

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All Good Things Come to an End. What About Bad Things?

We cannot forget that so much of our Trump trauma comes from electing a reality TV star as president.

28.04.2025 60

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The Face-Plant President

There’s no better opponent than one who repeatedly trips over his shoelaces.

23.04.2025 100

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How to Solve the Iran Problem

An olive branch is easier to accept when it is offered from the tip of a sword.

16.04.2025 10

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The Destruction of the American Ideal

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

08.04.2025 30

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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?

07.04.2025 80

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Free Gaza From Its Own Tyrants First

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

02.04.2025 100

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Nothing Ever Goes Wrong in Trump’s White House

The problem is that competence and execution matter.

31.03.2025 60

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The Trump Train Is Going Full Speed Ahead

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

24.03.2025 20

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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?

21.03.2025 100

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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.

19.03.2025 90

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

What went wrong for higher education?

15.03.2025 80

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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.

12.03.2025 650

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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

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05.03.2025 100

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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.”

26.02.2025 100

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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.

21.02.2025 100

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Vance’s Munich Disgrace

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

19.02.2025 300

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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.

17.02.2025 50

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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.

12.02.2025 60

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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.

05.02.2025 80

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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.

03.02.2025 4

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D.E.I. Will Not Be Missed

The Pentagon’s experience shows why.

30.01.2025 80

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Trump Explodes Out of the Gate

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

28.01.2025 40

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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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