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September 13, 2026
The Fix Was Almost In
The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.
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September 6, 2026
Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball
We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.
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September 3, 2026
Who’s the Snowflake Now?
Marco Rubio is taking the wrong approach to free speech.
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August 30, 2026
What Dolly Did for Tennessee Is What She Did for the World
This is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …
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August 27, 2026
There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness
The anti-woke movement’s “cure” was more intolerance and more repression.
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August 23, 2026
Go Ahead, Sean Duffy. Let Your Daughter Go to Harvard.
Four years at Harvard won’t corrupt your children.
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August 22, 2026
The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’
As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed.
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August 20, 2026
JD Vance Thinks You Are Not Christian Enough
According to the vice president, we are wasting our freedom.
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August 2, 2026
World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
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July 30, 2026
Gen Z Thinks Religion Got Too Political
Does Gen Z feel welcome at church?
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July 26, 2026
Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse
This “Odyssey” takes us somewhere we didn’t know we were going.
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July 25, 2026
The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters
Three Opinion writers discuss whether the president’s Red Scare strategy will work.
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July 23, 2026
How Trump and His Allies Can Corrupt the Midterms
Stop the steal before it starts.
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July 16, 2026
‘A Million Men With Kalashnikovs Are Dangerous’
A Q&A with Kori Schake on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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July 12, 2026
Trump’s Corruption Stains, From Texas to Maine
Something is wrong if vice is all them and virtue is all you.
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July 11, 2026
‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics.
What America’s embarrassments have in common.
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July 9, 2026
Is America’s MAGA Wing Giving Up on America?
The right’s birthright meltdown is in full effect.
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July 2, 2026
Amy Coney Barrett Is the Lightning Rod
The Supreme Court seesaw is swinging hard.
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June 28, 2026
Beware the Purging of General Donahue
The dangers of Pete Hegseth are mounting.
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June 27, 2026
Has the MAGA ‘Sugar Rush’ Finally Run Out?
Three Opinion writers on Trump’s latest face-plant.
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June 25, 2026
Two-Party System, One-Party Rule
Why does our seemingly competitive political system produce so much stagnation and corruption?
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June 21, 2026
A Malicious Chapter in the History of American Justice
The Trump administration is the nation’s chief threat to the rule of law.
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June 18, 2026
Trump and Netanyahu Have Really Stepped in It Now
America and Israel have snatched defeat from victory.
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