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Also in this column …

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

•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. 

•Right-column pundit Bryan Williams, “New Competition May Do Us Some Good,” on the growing Cold War with China.

•Williams again, on the California gubernatorial recall and the future of Trump’s GOP.