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To Brazil’s victor goes political revenge. Lula’s government targets losing opponent Flávio Bolsonaro.
The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy despairs over left-wing riots in the streets, but he maintains his optimism that good sense will win next year’s presidential election. @tunkuv interviews @BHL
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Without Trump’s proposal to boost defense spending—including $350 billion to be paid for in budget reconciliation legislation—we are left with hard choices, writes @OwenWest91
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From @WSJFreeEx: The chaos in France brings to mind the anti-Israel protests on American college campuses in recent years. Radicalism is on the march, writes @MJ_Koch
Punish the perpetrators. Expel them. Prosecute them. But banning Greek life punishes the innocent while making the guilty harder to catch, writes Harrison Luhning, a student at the University of Southern California
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The Iranian regime plots terror attacks on U.K. soil. Britain is still too irresolute even to expel the country’s ambassador.
Barney Frank: impeach “woke.” Democrats should hold themselves accountable along with Donald Trump, writes Holman Jenkins
The Pagan nationalism of Marco Rubio’s Athens speech: The secretary makes serious arguments, but he leaves out Jerusalem, writes William A. Galston
Milton Friedman’s courageous candor: The economist who became a Nobel laureate 50 years ago skewered not people but bad ideas, writes Arthur M. Diamond
Ritualized practices help patients, families and clinicians acknowledge realities that are emotionally and morally significant but difficult to express, writes Maria Balhara
The Russian refusal to accept an energy cease-fire is the latest evidence that President Trump’s courtship of Vladimir Putin isn’t working.
Sometimes government is innovative. Federal agencies got out ahead of industry on cybersecurity, writes Egon Rinderer
Different foods affect your metabolism and gut microbiome differently, says Dariush Mozaffarian.
Shock-and-awe foreign policy offers hope of breakthroughs that would shore up the president’s position. The world should brace for more Trump shocks. He has no incentive to calm things down, writes @wrmead
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What we call the West emerged from, and is sustained by, the continuing tension between Athens and Jerusalem, not either in isolation from the other, writes William A. Galston
It’s the economy, stupid—but how stupid? As in 1992, Democrats are poised to win big based on mistaken perceptions that times are difficult, writes @gerardtbaker
As dumb as tariffs are, retaliating with countertariffs, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing, is dumber still, writes @wjmcgurn
The time seems right for an elder influencer, and I am putting myself out there for the job, writes Lou Weiss
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under pressure from his own left-wing supporters to sack police commissioner Jessica Tisch, his best appointment.
NATO’s message to Putin? “We will fight.” Gen. Alexus Grynkewich sends a strong deterrent message, but does Trump agree?
