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1 week ago | 
timesfreepress.com | Bret Stephens
Nobody, perhaps even President Donald Trump himself, knows for sure whether the United States will wind up joining Israel in launching military strikes on Iran. "I may do it, I may not do it," he said Wednesday. But with a third U.S. aircraft carrier on its way to the region and the president calling for Iran's "unconditional surrender," the chance of war seems higher than ever — particularly now that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has gruffly rebuffed Trump's demand.
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1 week ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bret Stephens
Nobody, perhaps even President Donald Trump himself, knows for sure whether the United States will wind up joining Israel in launching military strikes on Iran. “I may do it, I may not do it,” he said Wednesday. But with a third U.S. aircraft carrier on its way to the region and the president calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” the chance of war seems higher than ever — particularly now that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has gruffly rebuffed Trump’s demand.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Bret Stephens
Nobody, perhaps even President Trump himself, knows for sure whether the United States will wind up joining Israel in launching military strikes on Iran. “I may do it, I may not do it,” he said on Wednesday. But with a third U.S. aircraft carrier on its way to the region and the president calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” the chance of war seems higher than ever — particularly now that Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has gruffly rebuffed Trump’s demand.
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1 week ago | 
timesfreepress.com | Bret Stephens
It may be months or years before we'll know the full results of Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which began early Friday morning and could last for days or weeks. But critics of the strike — and already they are vocal — might at least ask themselves whether Israel had any realistic alternative against an adversary that has repeatedly vowed to wipe it off the map.
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2 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Bret Stephens
It may be months or years before we’ll know the full results of Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets, which began early Friday morning and could last for days or weeks. But critics of the strike — and already they are vocal — might at least ask themselves whether Israel had any realistic alternative against an adversary that has repeatedly vowed to wipe it off the map.
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1 month ago | 
sapirjournal.org | Bret Stephens
Objective and activist journalism both have vital roles to play—provided one doesn’t mix with the other Share Published on May 13, 2025 The lament that political activism pervades too much of what passes for journalism isn’t new. “Arrows of malevolence” was how George Washington, in 1793, described the lurid polemics of the Philadelphia-based National Gazette, a mouthpiece for the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party.
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1 month ago | 
sapirjournal.org | Mehdi Yahyanejad |Bret Stephens
For Sapir’s Activism issue, Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens sat down for an interview with Iranian-American entrepreneur and activist Mehdi Yahyanejad. Born in Iran in 1975, Yahyanejad moved to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. Since then, he has created a series of technological platforms that support activism against Iran’s hardline regime.
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1 month ago | 
keysnews.com | Bret Stephens
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Gail Collins |Bret Stephens |Aaron Retica |Derek Arthur
After eight years of weekly chats, one more for the road. The Conversation has been a staple of The Times's Opinion pages since 2017. But after eight years, the weekly dialogue between the liberal columnist Gail Collins and her conservative colleague Bret Stephens has come to an end. The editor Aaron Retica joins Gail and Bret to answer reader questions and discuss how they've managed years of civil conversations - for the first and last time in audio.
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1 month ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bret Stephens
I first met Dane Chapin, a San Diego-area entrepreneur, in 2012, when he gave me a ride in his Prius and told me I was dead wrong about climate change. We’ve been close friends ever since. Sometimes he’s to my left politically, sometimes to my right. I’ve always admired his curiosity, optimism and independent thinking, especially when we disagree — as we did over his vote for Donald Trump in the last election. A hundred days into this administration, Dane isn’t happy.
