
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.
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Donald Trump's malicious stupidityopinion The presumptive GOP nominee has become the wild-eyed emperor of the tinfoil hat brigade
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Is #NeverTrump working?opinion The disgruntled conservatives who have branded themselves #NeverTrump have been treated as a punchline. But now...
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The existential despair of Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trumpopinion In defense of sitting out the most depressing election in modern American history
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The Libertarian presidential ticket is super qualified — and entirely unappealingopinion This is the least exciting and principled Libertarian ticket imaginable, almost perfectly calibrated not to pick up the support of disaffected conservatives
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The injustice and impossibility of asking immigrants to save the Western welfare stateopinion Western nations expect immigrants to save their economies and sky-high standards of living. It won't work.
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How Baby Boomer psychodrama infected the 2016 electionopinion Clinton vs. Trump is the ultimate curse of the Boomers
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How David Cameron unwittingly disproved himself on the Brexitopinion If the U.K. were the vulnerable weakling that David Cameron makes it out to be, it would actually be clamoring to join the euro
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Donald Trump's bar-stool foreign policyopinion Trump's foreign policy ignorance is fine for someone holding forth at the bar stool. It's disastrous for someone sitting in the Oval Office.
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How the Bernie Sanders insurgency staved off a much bigger threat to the Democratic PartyThe Explainer Don’t worry, Democrats. Bernie Sanders will have helped you in the end.
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Why 'Crooked Hillary' is likely to stickopinion Democrats have only themselves to blame
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Afraid of Trump becoming a dictator? Blame Bush and Obama.opinion In their utter passivity and cravenness before the Executive branch, America's ruling class has been implicitly crying out for the rule of a tyrant
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Why the Little Sisters of the Poor shouldn't settle for a stingy exemptionopinion The Catholic order won an important victory at the Supreme Court on Monday — but it's not nearly enough
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Obama's odious war in Yemenopinion Now that U.S. boots are on the ground in Yemen, can we please debate our involvement in this war?
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The Republican Party now belongs to Donald Trumpopinion Trump's GOP is a mix of Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions, with a dash of coal country thrown in
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The myth of Donald Trump's upper-class supportopinion Here's what liberal wonks get wrong about Trump voters
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Why I won't vote in Novemberopinion Here's why I am both #NeverTrump and #NeverHillary
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How Hillary Clinton could blow itopinion Memo to the Clinton campaign: Burn your normal playbook
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Trump vs. Clinton is a verdict on Americaopinion A just punishment
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Why I'll miss Obamaopinion As a conservative, I'm starting to dread what comes next
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In defense of America Firstopinion The once-proud cause deserves better than to be associated with Donald Trump
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Why Ted Cruz failed to carry the #NeverTrump banneropinion Reflections on the Texas senator's humiliating performance in the Acela primaries
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No political makeover can save Donald Trumpopinion A little campaign makeover certainly won't change what is now the most well-defined and lustily disliked campaign in modern memory
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Donald Trump dominated New York. This changes nothing.opinion Nothing that happened in New York suggests that Trump has made a giant leap out of the tar pit into which his candidacy has sunk
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Conservatives shouldn't kid themselves about Ted Cruzopinion The 2016 candidate may have the work ethic, but his candidacy is almost as toxic as Donald Trump's
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