The consolidation of an America-friendly stability in Venezuela would be a humiliating and damaging setback for Russia and China. It would likely be a mortal blow to the Cuban regime, writes @wrmead https://t.co/EudgEy30HF

While Gov. Tim Walz and Somali migrants may be easy political targets, the GOP will let the Minnesota scandal go to waste if it fails to explain how vast government welfare payments have become an invitation for fraud and abuse. https://t.co/GvEvWaW3my

Venezuelans living in exile celebrate the fall of Maduro, as he awaits trial in New York City. https://t.co/UXzAoJz79T

Trump’s capture of Maduro is an act of hemispheric hygiene against a dictator who spread mayhem far and wide. Whether he admits it or not, Trump is now in the business of regime change that he’ll have to make a success. https://t.co/1RQ3O5f7cy

From @WSJFreeEx: “Change in Iran is ultimately in the hands of the people of Iran themselves,” Reza Pahlavi says, in an interview with @tunkuv. “I think Iranians are finding our path again, and I’m here to help.” https://t.co/fCBbeV1rdf

Conservatives seek to uphold traditions that have given us centuries of freedom and progress. Jacob Rees-Mogg personifies that point, writes @maxraskin https://t.co/4dr6gO9G4t

When those in power mistake online commentary for real-world consensus, they make decisions based on a distorted picture of what those citizens really want. I plan to become a social-media teetotaler in 2026, writes @VivekGRamaswamy https://t.co/4aih5zkw1I

The Maduro grab was a superbly executed act of strategic opportunism that removed a troublesome enemy in the region most vital to U.S. interests. Ultimate judgment on it will rest on its long-term outcome, writes @gerardtbaker https://t.co/J6uXFLc1Q4

Mamdani, take note: New York City’s social-service system is rife with abuse and mismanagement, writes @katesfarmer https://t.co/LAIIir1jFT

From @WSJFreeEx: “Stranger Things” succeeded because it turned the ’80s into something that lives up to the memories and imaginations of those who lived through it, and repackaged it as something new for subsequent generations, writes @bradleybirzer https://t.co/e6pFFQ1bk6

Many nightclubs contain the fuel load of a residential condominium, the ignition sources of an industrial site, and the evacuation constraints of a submarine. These situations can become deadly in 90 seconds, write Costas Synolakis and George Karagiannis https://t.co/q4Mdjs87U9

For the first time in a quarter-century of authoritarian chavismo, a return to democracy and pluralism is possible. Venezuelans want to go home. But the job isn’t finished, writes @MaryAnastasiaOG https://t.co/SeWaLSXjD7

Critics calling President Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro unprecedented and illegal have short memories. We’ve done this before, and the courts blessed it, writes Nicholas Creel https://t.co/vglMOE6yjA

Why sugarcoat Orwell’s greatest lesson now? Because despite growing budgets that artists think fall from the sky, Hollywood hates capitalism, writes @andykessler https://t.co/sM0GcpXRsf

From @WSJFreeEx: As the second Venezuelan-born federal judge to serve in U.S. history, I’ve seen the glorious majesty of freedom firsthand. Now, God willing, those still living there will experience it too, writes Roy Altman https://t.co/Cn6k9RNUyk

“Honest graft” may be a bigger scandal than outright fraud. America’s all-you-can-eat buffet of health and social benefits provides abundant opportunities for milking the government, writes Allysia Finley https://t.co/sXOvdG9b5q

Cuba’s freedom must be next—for the Cubans who never made it and for those who are still waiting, still waving and still believing that America won’t look away, writes @GeletMartinez https://t.co/bSIOXfbvxP

From @WSJFreeEx: The U.S. can’t afford to retreat from the world. The old lesson remains true: We may not be interested in complicated foreign entanglements, but complicated foreign entanglements are interested in us, writes @MattHennessey. https://t.co/ThESj3MQhX

If Trump can succeed in nation building in Venezuela, the Castro coterie in Cuba may want to start looking for some other place to live. https://t.co/NTciknN0JI

Who is Delcy Rodríguez, the acting president of Venezuela after the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro? @MaryAnastasiaOG says, “Your typical Marxist.” Watch the full interview: https://t.co/qOoLvWgB7G