Damon Linker
Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.
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The self-radicalizing logic of conservative intellectuals
opinion How an unlikely hope led to a dark new radicalism among the right's intelligentsia
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The inescapable inadequacy of our COVID blame game
opinion Blaming the virus isn't very satisfying. Maybe that's why we're blaming each other.
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Congress sets out to prevent a replay of the Capitol riot
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Is Trump on track to lose the GOP nomination in 2024?
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How close is America to a new civil war?
opinion It's not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it's still worth debate.
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How to rise above the partisan fray
opinion A view of America from above the scrimmage
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What's behind the public health switcheroo on COVID?
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What I got wrong in 2021
opinion Too much 'coup' quibbling, too little recognition for Liz Cheney's heroism, and more
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'Let's go, Brandon' and the politics of degradation
opinion When did vulgarly insulting people become a form of politics?
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How should the U.S. respond to the coming Russian invasion of Ukraine?
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Biden's big Omicron gamble
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A worldview captured in a headline
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How distrust in government doomed the Biden agenda
opinion Progressives have a bigger problem than Joe Manchin
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The dangerous vigilantism that fueled Jan. 6
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The Jan. 6 texts and the rot at the heart of Fox News
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The wrong Americans don't care about COVID
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The question we need to ask the American right
opinion 'What is it you want permission to do?'
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How America's obsession with global democracy has led us astray
opinion Democracy matters at home. It matters much less to how we act around the world.
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Journalists can't save American democracy
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Why is political discontent destabilizing the democratic world?
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The government is shockingly bad at counting stuff
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Why viability is the best possible abortion compromise
opinion America's abortion precedents are a mess. They're also as good as we'll get.
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The nagging mystery of Trump's BS
opinion Do Trumpy Republicans believe their own bulls--t? Or is it all performance? Or can they even tell the difference anymore?
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The question that may determine the future of abortion rights
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