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'Israel Alone'
What The Economist unwittingly gets right about the Jewish state

March 27, 2024  •  The Boston Globe

ON THE cover of the current issue of The Economist is an Israeli flag, covered in grime, being whipped by a sandstorm in a deserted land. The flag tilts precariously, and could fall over at any time. Above it, in heavy capital letters, are two ominous words: "Israel Alone."

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The phony feeding frenzies over 'bloodbath' and 'hamstringing'

March 24, 2024  •  The Boston Globe

AT A campaign rally in Dayton last weekend, Donald Trump said something that released a tsunami of outrage and scorn from Democrats and the left-leaning media. During a Supreme Court oral argument two days later, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said something that released a tsunami of outrage and scorn from Republicans and the right-leaning media.

In neither case was there anything scurrilous or shocking about the remark in question. What was reprehensible was the way the remarks were willfully misrepresented by ideological partisans who didn't scruple to distort the truth in order to advance a political narrative and discredit a political foe.

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Sanders's foreign policy 'revolution' is a string of leftist clichés

March 20, 2024  •  The Boston Globe

THIS WEEK Foreign Affairs published a 2,800-word essay by Bernie Sanders, the US senator from Vermont whose campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020, though unsuccessful, attracted wide interest and support. Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist and his essay, titled "A Revolution in American Foreign Policy," faithfully reflects the far-left worldview he has always embraced.

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Vandals for Palestine

March 19, 2024  •  Arguable

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The Wendy's beef was a nothingburger

March 17, 2024  •  The Boston Globe

I'VE NEVER had a meal at Wendy's. But the fast-food chain boasts 12 million loyalty members and had revenue of more than $2 billion in 2023, so it clearly knows something about selling hamburgers (and chicken nuggets and fries and Frosty milkshakes). To keep growing its sales, Wendy's, like any retail company, has to get the price right — high enough to make a profit, low enough to attract customers, deft enough to account for the competition, flexible enough to respond to shifts in demand.

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