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Bret Stephens

Wall Street Journal

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How Does This End? Four Scenarios for What Comes Next With Iran.

The best hope? Weaken the regime’s ability to lash out and resist an uprising.

10.03.2026 10

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Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor

American hearts should be moved by moments like this, when free nations band together to administer justice and supply hope.

01.03.2026 20

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The Trumpiest Trump We’ve Ever Beheld

The president is becoming the very thing that destroyed the Democrats: a reality-denying machine.

26.02.2026 10

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The Case for Striking Iran

The Iranian people should not be let down again.

22.02.2026 150

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Who Would Win Gold in the Coward Olympics?

There are a lot of potential contestants.

19.02.2026 100

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Western Civ Can Save Us — Again

Marco Rubio reminds an audience in Munich of what still unites us.

18.02.2026 300

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Dissidents Are Silenced, and the West Moves On

On Jimmy Lai and the future of freedom.

11.02.2026 70

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Trump Brings Out the Worst in Everyone

Us included.

05.02.2026 40

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Will Newsom Be the Democrats’ Next Mistake?

The California governor’s record is exactly what Republicans want to run against.

04.02.2026 100

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Should Iran’s Executioners Go Unpunished?

It’s left to the United States to impose meaningful consequences on the Iranian regime for one of the worst atrocities of this century.

28.01.2026 40

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Donald Trump, Live From Davos

It’s striking how clearheadedly and defiantly Europeans are reacting to the president’s provocations.

22.01.2026 7

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An Unhinged President on the Magic Mountain

Trump’s Davos speech could have been ghostwritten by Mario Puzo.

22.01.2026 90

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The Gaudy, Nasty Fictions of Donald J. Trump

This is neither law nor order, and the consequences can be deadly.

15.01.2026 90

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The Ayatollahs’ Antisemitism Has Undone Iran

A regime that would rather pursue a perpetual jihad against the Zionist enemy than feed its own people will eventually fall.

14.01.2026 40

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Venezuela Is the Tip of the Iceberg

In the Trump era, there are a lot of contenders for the 51st state.

08.01.2026 40

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There Were Good Reasons to Depose Maduro

But taking Venezuela’s oil while leaving the regime in place weren’t among them.

07.01.2026 10

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Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief

The White House has never had a more loathsome occupant.

17.12.2025 1000

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Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like

When a slogan’s real meaning comes true.

15.12.2025 200

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Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For

Provided Europeans want to fight for it.

10.12.2025 10

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Ukraine Is Still Worth Fighting For

Don’t let Trump sell out its freedom for business deals with Putin.

03.12.2025 9

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All of the Turkeys Ain’t in the Zoo

Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups.

27.11.2025 20

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Thanksgiving and the New Births of Freedom

An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national reset.

26.11.2025 10

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card

Have we been selling her short? Is she paving the way to the after-Trump?

20.11.2025 20

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The Case for Overthrowing Maduro

Thinking through the case for intervention in Venezuela.

18.11.2025 10

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Welcome to the Washington Demolition Derby

And yet, a little, precious seedling of hope is emerging.

13.11.2025 7

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Meet the New Antisemites, Same as the Old Antisemites

A bigotry for morons will always be political gold in a world of morons.

12.11.2025 20

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Do Dumb Ideas Ever Die?

Unlike old soldiers, they don’t even fade away.

05.11.2025 9

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There Are So Many Ways to Shut Down a Country

The moderate vs. progressive debate will not be solved on Tuesday.

30.10.2025 30

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Why Mamdani Frightens Jews Like Me

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

22.10.2025 40

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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 9

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Why Israel Won the War

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

15.10.2025 20

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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 10

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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 10

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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

Or does he?

25.09.2025 10

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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 10

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America Darkens

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

18.09.2025 10

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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 20

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Gesture Politics Won’t Help Palestinians

But diaspora Jews will pay an ugly price.

10.09.2025 10

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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 20

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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 70

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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 7

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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.

19.08.2025 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 70

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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 10

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For Israel, It Pays to Be a Winner

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

09.07.2025 100

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What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Really Means

Will liberals keep making excuses for Mamdani?

02.07.2025 10

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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 9

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