Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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Time to retire Person of the Year
opinion Whatever it might once have been, Person of the Year is now a tedious self-referential gimmick
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Why Trump supporters won't accept election results
opinion This is the inevitable culmination of a process that began long ago
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Give Americans another check
opinion When Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders agree, listen
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The reasonable case for a Trump self-pardon
opinion Why the president should and will pardon himself before he leaves office
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Pope Francis' news of the millennium
opinion Why the Eastern Orthodox Church really might just reconcile with Rome
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The Donald goes down to Georgia
opinion What Trump is really doing in the Peach State
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Trump's tweets are American literature
opinion Like them or not, the president's tweets belong not only to American history but to our common literary heritage
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The invisible crisis in Ethiopia
opinion More than a million people have been displaced almost overnight. Does anyone in the U.S. realize it?
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How camp explains Trump
opinion On the still strangely underappreciated nature of the outgoing president's appeal
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The joy of watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving
opinion Their ritual humiliation is arguably the single most venerable Thanksgiving tradition
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Biden is giving the left nothing for their investment
opinion There was never going to be a Secretary Elizabeth Warren at the Treasury or a Secretary Bernie Sanders at the Department of Labor
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The Earth is not a math problem
opinion Why a technocratic approach to the environment is doomed to fail
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Trump and the audacity of hope
opinion It is one thing to suggest the election was stolen from him. It is another thing entirely to insist to his supporters that he still has a path to victory.
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Trump is right about Afghanistan
opinion America's presence there has been a national embarrassment. It's time to admit defeat and go home.
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America needs a real debt jubilee
opinion Why stop at student loans?
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Barack Obama, failed conservative
opinion The former president was deeply passive in the face of revolutionary change
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Democrats' COVID totemism
opinion Is this really science?
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Trump's losing war with Fox News
opinion He needs the network more than the network needs him
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4 major political consequences of Trump's coronavirus diagnosis
The Explainer It could hardly be a more fraught time for the White House
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Looking under the hood of the 2020 election results
opinion Are America's voting patterns as strange as they seem?
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Why Bush v. Gore is irrelevant in 2020
feature Trump supporters hoping for Supreme Court intervention are going to be disappointed
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Why Trump failed
opinion Trump's mind ran on golden visions, but he entrusted their execution to toadies and backbiters
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Biden's triumph of circumstances
opinion His victory over Trump was hardly a sure thing
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Trump doesn't have it in him
opinion With his re-election prospects looking dim, will the president even bother fighting an unprecedented legal battle?
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