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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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Israel Mourns and Prepares for War
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Israel Mourns and Prepares for War

Kfar Aza, IsraelBy the time I enter this community adjacent to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has removed most of the bodies. I am with a unit of the rescue organization Zaka, whose job is to retrieve parts missing from the bodies of the dead so that they can be made whole and given a proper Jewish burial. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
A ‘Trumpier’ Second-Term Foreign Policy
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A ‘Trumpier’ Second-Term Foreign Policy

Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mr. Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books, including the widely-recognized Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). Mr. Mead’s next book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Future of the Jewish People.