Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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The Chauvin verdict should be celebrated
opinion The jurors, like the witnesses in the trial, told the truth and shamed the devil
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What is opinion journalism?
opinion Here's what I do for a living
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An eyewitness account of atrocities in Tigray
feature "I had never heard of hyenas eating dead people, so many dead that you couldn't bury them."
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How to read Proust
feature A guide to getting through Remembrance of Things Past
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The MC Hammer school of philosophy
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How Rush Limbaugh created modern politics
opinion We all live in the world he helped shape
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Biden's Dennis Green presidency
opinion He is who we thought he was
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Disasters are not partisan
opinion Democrat fires do not exist. Neither do GOP blizzards.
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On sitting out the new culture wars
opinion Not every outrage is worthy of our participation
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Trump is acquitted but the Senate convicts itself
opinion The former president survives a thoroughly cynical affair
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The NeverTrump third party delusion
opinion Why plans to form a breakaway center-right party are doomed to fail
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The most important person in the impeachment trial is missing. It isn't Trump.
opinion Why John Roberts' refusal to preside is more significant than many have acknowledged
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Trump's dumbfounding defense
opinion Democrats' impeachment arguments were bad. But Trump's lawyers were incomprehensible.
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A show trial with no reason to watch
opinion Trump's second impeachment trial won’t have the one thing that would have made it interesting
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Pro-worker Republicans go missing
opinion Why haven't Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio endorsed the Amazon union?
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How the Super Bowl became 'hero ball'
feature The genius of football is that it is not a mere athletic competition, but a bizarre amalgamation of tag, rugby, Stratego, and military history
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Mitt Romney's child benefit is a challenge to both parties
opinion The surprising proposal is consistent with the rest of his political career
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Weird and not so weird ways to save money
opinion Go ahead, buy the whole pig
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The joy of a long Christmas
feature Why do Americans insist on ending the festive season so quickly?
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Rise of the Barstool conservatives
opinion Dave Portnoy is the future of the conservative movement
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How GameStop explains right-wing populism
opinion On the futile hunt for a Machiavelli behind an uprising
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American carnage rages on
opinion The last year has only exacerbated the despair that seems to define 21st-century America
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Mitch McConnell is the GOAT
opinion The Senate minority leader wins his Tampa Bay NFC championship
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Biden's reverse triangulation
opinion Like Barack Obama before him, the new president intends to reverse the Clintonian dynamic
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