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

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

‘​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

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.

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 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

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

‘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 2

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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.

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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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 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

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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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17.12.2024 30

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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?

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04.12.2024 30

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Defining Deviancy Down. And Down. And Down.

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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 5

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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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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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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

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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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Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.

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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.

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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.

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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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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?

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist Of all the world’s injustices, perhaps the saddest is that so many of...

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Kamala Harris Has Left the Building

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How to Handle the Next Campus Protest

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Kamala Harris Takes Her First Big Risk

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