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April 9, 2026
Ben Sasse on How to Live While Dying
The former senator wants to heal the America he’s leaving behind.
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April 4, 2026
Trump Needs Smarter Sycophants
Loyal losers don’t go very far with this president.
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April 2, 2026
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.
A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat.
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March 24, 2026
Iran’s ‘Nuclear’ Option
How U.S. strategy encouraged mutually assured destruction.
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March 19, 2026
White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right
He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.
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March 12, 2026
The Democrats Could Still Mess This Up
Will they finally capitalize on Trump’s chaos?
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March 7, 2026
Trump’s Iran War and the Shadow of Iraq
The desire for a revolutionary presidency gives hubris a lot of space to work.
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March 5, 2026
Does the Iran War Put America First?
How the antiwar right sees Trump’s foreign policy.
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March 3, 2026
Trump Struck Iran Because He Sensed Weakness
Has his unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?
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February 26, 2026
The New Space Race
Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?
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February 19, 2026
An Ancient Power Is Reasserting Itself
Why the next 30 years belong to India.
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February 17, 2026
What the American Right Wants From Europe
The tensions in Marco Rubio’s trans-Atlantic vision.
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February 12, 2026
Is Claude Coding Us Into Irrelevance?
Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence.
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February 10, 2026
The Left Needs a Sharper A.I. Politics
The future may put progressive theories of work and human nature to the test.
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February 5, 2026
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement
Activists won the legal battle. Are they losing the culture war?
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January 27, 2026
The Dream Palace of the Immigration Hard-Liners
Is this really the only way to enforce the law?
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January 20, 2026
With Greenland, Trumpism Is Doomed Without Restraint
The president needs counterforces to save him from himself.
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January 17, 2026
Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era
The right’s future is all about American nationalism.
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January 10, 2026
What Would Peace on Immigration Look Like?
A tough issue for stabilization in our politics and public institutions.
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