Latest articles by Michael Brendan Dougherty
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What do nationalists want?
opinion The new nationalists are winning the debate about the present. But what happens tomorrow?
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Were Trump voters motivated by racism or economic anxiety? France offers a clue.
opinion France's unemployed youths are gravitating towards the far-right
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The arrogant thinking of liberal sports writers
opinion The sports media has become predominantly liberal. That's not a good thing.
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Will Trump make a populist pivot on ObamaCare?
opinion Here's how Trump could turn the GOP fault lines into a political earthquake
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The European Spring is almost upon us
opinion Is a nationalist uprising about to sweep the continent?
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The Trump presidency is overwhelmed and overwhelming
opinion President Trump is exhausting everyone
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The doddering establishment
opinion The establishment is on life support. And it has dementia.
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America is not innocent. But it is exceptional.
opinion The GOP's understanding of American exceptionalism is self-deluding sentimentalism. But the critique of it is a kind of nihilism.
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How Iran hawks are already scuttling the realism of the Trump administration
The Explainer So much for retrenchment
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Neil Gorsuch is the Supreme Court pick Donald Trump had to make
opinion He's just what conservatives wanted, and no less than they demanded
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Where was the liberal uproar over Obama's wars in the Middle East?
opinion On the list of enormities inflicted on the Middle East by American policy in the last 20 years, President Trump's visa ban, for all its crudity, would not rate in the top 25
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What I hope for in the age of Trump
opinion Don't despair. Not yet, at least.
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Why it may be impossible to raise 'free range kids'
feature The decline of the American neighborhood has inhibited our ability to instill self-reliance in our children
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The reality TV presidency begins
The Explainer President Trump will govern with feuds, dramatic plot twists, rose ceremonies, and votes off the island. Get ready.
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What I fear about the age of Trump
opinion From the end of sobriety to the end of the world, here's what keeps me up at night about the next president
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How NATO grew fat and Russia took advantage
opinion This is the price we paid for NATO expansion
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Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal
opinion Once-respected news outlets are now sinking to Donald Trump's level. This won't end well.
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Students don't want to learn anymore. They want to teach.
opinion Here's what it really means to 'de-colonize' Plato
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Democrats are about to do a 180 on foreign policy. Just you wait.
opinion As Trump inherits Obama's wars, it's only a matter of time before Democrats become peaceniks again
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A child abuse scandal is coming for Pope Francis
opinion Following the advice of his clubby group of allies in the curia, the pope may undo reforms instituted by his predecessors to handle the cases of abuser priests
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The pathetic end of the Obama era
opinion If you left your country and party in such a state, you'd be acting like a petulant jerk, too
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4 history books that changed my view of the world in 2016
opinion Even the greatest world powers can be brought down in just a few years
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Poland is not descending into tyranny. It's just defying the EU.
opinion Don't believe everything you read in the Western press
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Angela Merkel is destroying Europe
opinion Her grand invitation has taken the migration crisis from bad to worse
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