World CommentaryJapan decline a real-life lesson
BRET STEPHENSJapan is an excellent place to test the proposition that countries do better with low levels of immigration.
World CommentaryParanoid time for Trump backers
BRET STEPHENSParanoia is back in style, but is it affectation or a deeply held belief?
World CommentaryHow West was brought undone
BRET STEPHENSThe West — as a geopolitical bloc, a cultural expression, a moral ideal — is in deep trouble.
Only Palestinians can solve conflict
BRET STEPHENSFour rules for Jared Kushner as the Trump administration’s point man on Israeli-Arab issues.
commentLured into dystopian world view
BRET STEPHENSUS conservatives should beware Donald Trump’s invitation to a political film noir in which the outcome is bleak.
CommentaryThe Donald runs a royal court
BRET STEPHENSWhat character from fiction or figure from history does Donald Trump most resemble?
World CommentaryPieties risk consuming the host
BRET STEPHENSFew things are as dangerous to democracy as a demagogue with a half-valid argument.
World CommentaryPalestinian state won’t bring peace
BRET STEPHENSNo deal between Jerusalem and Ramallah is going to lift the sights of those fighting in Syria, Iraq or Yemen.
Trump reveal would clear doubts
BRET STEPHENSThe president-elect’s ties to Russia, if any, have many in the US very concerned.
world commentaryHow I learned to love Putin
BRET STEPHENSVladimir Putin used to worry me. A lot. But I’m over it.
World CommentaryIt’s about justice, not economics
BRET STEPHENSThe “system”, with its high-toned rationale, has struck millions of people as unaccountable and unjust.
No apology for heaping disdain
BRET STEPHENSNothing prepared me for the torrent of opprobrium stemming from my disdain for Donald Trump.
Self-serving FBI chief must go
BRET STEPHENSThe FBI director is always on the right side of Beltway wisdom and consistently on the wrong side of justice.
OPINIONMy former Republican Party
Bret StephensThe Democrats left my parents. Trump’s GOP has left me.
The apology of Donald Trump
Bret StephensTo those who don’t get why Hillary Clinton isn’t ahead by 50 points — here’s the answer.
world commentaryTerror can’t beat democracy
BRET STEPHENSAs attacks become more frequent and closer to everyday life, public tolerance for liberal pieties will wane.
world commentaryTrump is immoral and dangerous
BRET STEPHENSThe Republican contender has more in common with Kanye West than with Steve Wynn.
world commentaryAll ask: Who did this to us?
BRET STEPHENSThe question leads to self-pity by disavowing personal responsibility and moral agency.
World CommentaryGOP in ruins after revolution
BRET STEPHENSIt was probably inevitable that Trump and his media munchkins would blame a stab in the back for his likely defeat.
world commentaryDonald’s problem is his character
BRET STEPHENSWhat makes Trump’s remarks on Ghazala Khan so foul is their undisguised sadism.
GOP can’t hope to better the US
BRET STEPHENSThe impulses that have dominated Donald Trump’s candidacy are the insult, the put-down, the slander, the threat.
world commentaryIs Iran dodging nuclear deal?
BRET STEPHENSGermany’s domestic spy agency reports increased clandestine nuclear procurement by the Iran regime.
Trump, Brexit offer delusions
BRET STEPHENSBoth the Trumpkins and the Brexiteers aimed their fire at a toothless opponent — and the wrong one to boot.
world commentaryVenezuela exposes the Bern
BRET STEPHENSThe Democratic socialism of Chavez and Sanders is legalised theft in the name of the people against the vilified few.
world commentaryMerkel’s road to moral surrender
BRET STEPHENSGermany’s recklessly humanitarian leader betrays her country’s liberal values.
world commentaryLeft’s orthodoxy is jihadist drug
BRET STEPHENSIt strikes as radical when it comes from the terrorists’ pen.
World CommentaryTrump, Obama: epic narcissists
BRET STEPHENSThe President and The Donald are two epic narcissists who see themselves as singularly suited to redeem America.
World CommentaryHow Putin taught West a lesson
BRET STEPHENSCould the next US president learn something from this case study in the use of power?
Obama has clocked off
Bret StephensA look-alike is giving interviews, pretending to be the President and rapping on foreign policy.
