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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win
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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

New YorkJoe Biden is asking voters to let him field the nuclear football until he’s 86, which is an obvious political vulnerability. Yet many Democrats fear that acknowledging this in a voice louder than a library whisper would help Donald Trump and damage their inevitable 2024 nominee. Rep. Dean Phillips has no qualms about weakening Mr. Biden. “He’s going to lose anyway,” the Minnesota Democrat says. “I don’t see any way for Biden to beat Trump in any circumstance whatsoever.” The people truly undermining Mr. Biden are the ones “propagating this delusion that he can be the next president.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Inflation Is Still on the Menu
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Inflation Is Still on the Menu

Democratic politicians and commentators say we should stop worrying about inflation now that it’s cooled to 3.2%. They should try eating out. At a humble Turkish restaurant near my home in Tampa, Fla., the cheapest item on the kids’ menu was $14 last week. It costs nearly $30 to take my family of four to our favorite ice cream shop, and that’s if we order single scoops and tip less than the touch-screen register recommends. At an eatery Google Maps labels with two dollar symbols—meaning it’s moderately priced compared to others—I recently paid $31 for tagliatelle bolognese, which has since risen to $32.90. My inattentive waiter presented the bill with three pre-set tip options: 22%, 25% or 30%.The cost of dining out increased 5.4% between October 2022 and October 2023, but it feels as if ...
After Forty Years of Democracy, Argentina Faces a Defining Presidential Runoff
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After Forty Years of Democracy, Argentina Faces a Defining Presidential Runoff

Argentina is just a day away from a Presidential runoff election that may bring to power the most bizarre candidate whom the nation has produced since democracy was restored there, exactly forty years ago. Javier Milei came in second in the first round of voting, on October 22nd, but several polls place him as the favorite for Sunday. Even if he doesn’t win, his political rise is a troubling comment on the state of the country, bringing it into the front ranks of the battle between democracy and autocracy that is currently sweeping much of the world.Milei is a fifty-three-year-old economist who was practically unknown to the Argentinean public before 2015, when his appearance as a panelist on a popular late-night TV show immediately doubled its ratings and he became a regular guest. A sel...
For Nikki Haley, Opportunity Knocks Again
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For Nikki Haley, Opportunity Knocks Again

Manchester, N.H. You might say Nikki Haley has an exceptional sense of timing, or that she possesses the most valuable political gift of all: luck. That’s not to diminish the former South Carolina governor’s political skill or competence; it’s to point out that at crucial moments in her career, things have gone her way—either because she took the right opportunities at the right time, or because those opportunities fell into her lap, or both. Probably both. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
DeSantis Isn’t at Home Abroad
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DeSantis Isn’t at Home Abroad

Murrells Inlet, S.C. Richard Nixon was famously bored by domestic policy. “I’ve always thought the country could run itself domestically without a president,” he once told an interviewer. “All you need is a competent cabinet to run the country at home. You need a president for foreign policy.” Ron DeSantis might say the opposite. Ask him any question on domestic policy and he can offer a seminar. Foreign policy clearly bores him. 
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