Bret L. Stephens joined the New York Times as an op-ed columnist in April 2017. He was previously with the Wall Street Journal as deputy editorial-page editor and, for 11 years, foreign affairs columnist. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.
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