NotableTrump is bombing his way to higher gas prices. “If it seems confounding that a president would start a war that’s guaranteed to raise the prices he had repeatedly vowed to lower, well, it’s not the first time, because the Trump administration was already doing battle against the single surest path to cheaper energy: renewables.” — Natasha Sarin, a contributing Opinion writer Carolyn Bessette was living the dream. Then she met John. “At a party, recently, one woman in her 40s from L.A. told me, unprompted, that she would pay $10 million to go back to that time and place.” — Glynnis MacNicol, author of the memoir “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself” Leave the Kurds out of it. “Short-term gains for the Iranian Kurds risk betrayal. They have no guarantees that Mr. Trump — as he demonstrated in Syria, when he effectively withdrew support from Kurds there — will not discard their aspirations for self-rule.” — Ellie Geranmayeh, the deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations Spotlight
He Escaped the Gangs of Honduras Just to Dodge ICE in AmericaAn undocumented teen’s harrowing past explains what brought him to the United States. ICYMIHow does the war with Iran end? “Regime modification — that is, a regime that stays in place but complies with U.S. and Israeli demands — is another optimistic scenario.” — Bret Stephens, Opinion columnist Listen (or Watch)
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