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Also in this column …

•Quick-take debate on the Pandora Papers released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. 

•A quick-take debate on the controversy surrounding Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding his portrayal in the book Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. 

•Pundit-at-large Stephen Macaulay, “The Seriousness of China,” on the building Cold War with the country.

•The California gubernatorial recall and the future of Trump’s GOP, by Jessica Gottlieb.