Policymaking by raw fear and lousy data | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
The political consequences of pandemics should not be allowed to become as dangerous as the disease itself.
Beijing’s great leap backward | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Several years ago, in an overheated room in Beijing, I was forced to endure a stern lecture from a Chinese foreign ministry official. My sin:...
Every time Palestinians say ‘no,’ they lose | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Regarding President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the instant conventional wisdom is that it’s a geopolitical nonstarter, a gift to Benjamin Netanyahu...
The conservative case for impeachment | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
If conservatives are right to object to the abuse of power by FBI agents, shouldn’t they be far more alarmed at the abuse of investigatory...
Brain dead or not, NATO is essential | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
The good news is that an institution as large as NATO can run on autopilot for a long time, certainly beyond either Trump’s or Macron’s...
Mexico’s plunge into lawlessness | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
In Mexico, all the legs of the stool are cracked. Prisons are out of control. Municipal authorities cower before the cartels. The “impunity rate” —...
Will Democrats become born-again neocons? | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Trump’s embrace of policies once more popular on the left than the right seems to have had an extraordinarily clarifying effect regarding the consequences of...
The Trump doctrine, revealed | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Trump’s transparent hankering for a deal gives Tehran an opportunity to aggravate the crisis — all the better to extract favorable terms in a negotiation.