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Ten Theses for Liberals on Sex and Gender
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The Singularly Appalling Republican Party
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MAGA's Downward Moral Spiral
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The Other Rally at the Garden
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No Silver Linings
 • Damon Linker
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It’s the Fall That’s Gonna Kill You
 • Damon Linker
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Trump Bombs Iran, "TACO" Hardest Hit
Ten thoughts on the president’s decision to join Israel’s war
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The Ineducable GOP
How (and how much) have Republicans changed since the debacle of the Iraq War?
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Damon Linker
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Our Real-World Worst-Case Scenario
Donald Trump is acting like he wants to provoke a conflagration to serve as a pretext for a seizure of dictatorial power
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A Chilling Prediction by Leo Strauss
Today’s post-liberals hate liberalism but lack a coherent alternative.
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MAGA in Motion
What we can learn simply by describing what we see from the second Trump administration
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Damon Linker
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A Party of Sloths
The Democrats are in serious trouble. What will it take to rouse them from their passivity?
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What I Learned Teaching “Trump 2.0”
It wasn’t anything uplifting, I’ll tell you that
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Notes from the Middleground
Notes from the Middleground
Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics
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