Latest articles by Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Donald Trump's campaign is in crisis. He needs a miracle in tonight's debate.
opinion His candidacy is on life support. If he actually wants to be president, he has to turn things around tonight.
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Mike Pence's bizarro world
opinion Pence seemed to know that it would be a losing strategy to explain or defend the scores of zany, offensive, or discomfiting things Trump has said. So he imagineered an entirely different reality.
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The social justice case for Hillary Clinton ends at America's borders
opinion She may be "woke" at home. But she's a danger abroad.
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Would America's bureaucrats sabotage a Trump presidency?
The Explainer The combination of Trump's erratic personality and the shallowness of his support within the political class presents a frightening crisis of legitimacy
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The case against esoteric Trumpism
opinion The only way people with a certain kind of dignity or intelligence can convince themselves that Trump would make a worthy president is through an elaborate form of self-delusion
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How Monday night's debate became a clash of caricatures
opinion Trump the blowhard vs. Hillary the nerd
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Why Donald Trump should double down on crazy at tonight's debate
opinion Trump's key task: Make his brand of crazy seem more connected to the needs of our present moment than Clinton's boring brand of competence
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Millions of American men aren't working. Donald Trump is the only one speaking for them.
opinion These out-of-work men and the people who know them can't be reassured by saying, "Actually, America is already great. The Fed chair says we have maximum employment."
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The limits of a Trump presidency
The Explainer Here's why the Republican nominee wouldn't be the end of the world
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How journalism got exploited by hackers
The Explainer When will the media wise up to the dangers of reporting on leaked emails?
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A field guide to Republicans' tangled relationship with Vladimir Putin
The Explainer From the Russia hawks to the nervous realists...
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How the GOP burned a generation of political talent
feature The Republican Party burned its bench in 2016. There's a better way to run the primaries.
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How the media internalized Donald Trump's abysmally low standards
opinion Hillary Clinton is judged basically like a normal major party candidate. Trump is judged like an utter buffoon.
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America is suffering from a heroin epidemic. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don't seem to care.
The Explainer There are millions of Americans who are touched by this scourge. It's time both Trump and Clinton spoke to their pain.
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How Donald Trump shattered his own movement
opinion Trumpism will end with Trump
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Why the EU overplayed its hand against Apple
opinion The European Union just picked a fight with Dublin, Washington DC, and Silicon Valley all at once
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Sympathy for Anthony Weiner
opinion Anthony Weiner is a dog and a fool. I pity him.
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How Donald Trump destroyed immigration reform
opinion Trump has made anyone else's attempt to establish a credibly hawkish position on the issue even harder. No small feat!
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The tricky politics of the burkini backlash
opinion And what it says about the West's excesses of secularism
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Does the commissioner of baseball understand baseball?
The Explainer On Rob Manfred 's self-defeating plan to save the game
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Donald Trump has made this election all about himself. That was stupid.
opinion He should have made it all about Hillary Clinton
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Donald Trump, the clickbait candidate
opinion On the significance of Breitbart taking over the Trump campaign
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How Republicans can rebuild after their civil war
The Explainer If the party really wants to rebuild, it should subtract orthodoxies
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Obama will leave his successor a ticking time bomb
opinion The president says he pulled American back from the abyss of the Middle East. Don't believe him.
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