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By Bret Stephens WARSAW — Last week, a friend asked me what I could learn from a four-day trip to Ukraine I was planning that I couldn’t glean just by reading the news. It was a fair question. With the trip now behind me, I can answer. I learned how
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On the fourth anniversary of this blog, I repeat the first one, so readers can understand where I am coming from. Welcome. If you landed here because you were looking for a Russian troll farm, you are free to leave. The rest of you know my name from the Daily
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Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is the only one -- so far -- to promise, if he is elected, to pardon Donald J. Trump. Should Joe Biden (left) pardon Donald J. Trump? He’s lost my support on that one, but that notion sparked an idea. But first -- if
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a death wish and/or a supersized ego that will lead him into harm. Ron DeSantis (left) is preparing to take on former President Donald J. Trump He reached the peak of his power after winning reelection by crushing former governor Charlie Crist, passing an
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Whatever else is said about the mayoral primary, it was a setback for Philadelphia progressives, which had recent wins with the election of D.A. Larry Krasner, state rep Elizabeth Fiedler, state senator Nikil Saval, Council member Kendra Brooks, and others. The progs were on a roll. Hoping to capture
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The progressive wave that had been sweeping big cities across America hit a sea wall in dear old Philadelphia. Democrat Cherelle Parker is likely to be Philadellphia’s 100th mayor It is with relief and gratitude that I can say Cherelle Parker will be the 100th mayor of Philadelphia, and
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I don’t recall a mayoral election in which I was undecided just days before Election Day. Can this Rebecca Rhynhart (left) beat that Helen Gym (right)? I usually vote for the person I like best, irrespective of their “electability” or political party. Not this year. This year we have
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Philadelphia City Council is about to undergo the largest change in recent memory. Why? Council candidates Melissa Robbins (left) and Donavan W. West A raft of incumbents ran away from their offices as if they were stocked with cases of Bud Light. Philly has 17 Council people -- 10 District,
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Well, this is not how I wanted my interview with Rebecca Rhynhart to go. Along with other candidates, I contacted her more than a month ago to sit down for an interview. Rebecca Rhynhart: Missing in action (Photo: NBC10) She agreed and turned it over to staff to arrange. Many
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Well, wasn’t that anti-climatic? I mean Friday’s Committee of 70 poll that seemed to show a five-way tie for mayor, with the three women candidates in the lead. (Unlike some, I can define “woman.” And each of the three is a mother, not a “birthing parent.”) Anyway. . . The
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It’s Friday morning, and I can guarantee you that most of the chattering class is hitting refresh, waiting for the release today of the independent mayoral poll commissioned by the Committee of Seventy. Why the intense interest in the poll? Because out of the nine Democratic candidates hoping to
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Tuesday night’s 90-minute Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce mayoral forum saved the best for last, if you hung in until the last 15 minutes. The event was streamed on 6ABC, and at the end solo moderator Matt O’Donnell gave the six participants a chance to ask questions of