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.
Latest articles by Michael Brendan Dougherty
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How Donald Trump broke all the rules — and won anyway
opinion On Trump's resounding New Hampshire victory
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Why young Christians are falling hard for Marco Rubio
opinion Christian youth are forging a powerful connection to the Florida senator
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How conservative elites disdain working-class Republicans
opinion Why do conservative elites harbor such condescension for working-class Trump voters?
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Rand Paul's most important campaign isn't over yet
opinion Rand Paul's presidential campaign is over, but his campaign to fix the Republican Party will endure
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How Donald Trump redeemed Rand Paul
opinion A series of humiliations have transformed the Kentucky senator
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Rubio-mania is upon us
opinion GOP elites are downright giddy about Rubio's Iowa success, because his candidacy is essentially based on the premise that nothing from the George W. Bush era has to change for the Republican Party
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This is who votes for Donald Trump
opinion Even if Trump loses, America needs to listen to his voters
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For Trumpism, against Donald Trump
opinion What if the 2016 candidate has some good ideas?
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The conservative movement has become the GOP establishment. Now what?
opinion Maybe the coalition really is dead
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This is how the suburbs die
The Explainer Not with a bang, but a corporate lease
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Pro-immigration arguments sound surprisingly like pro-colonialist arguments
opinion Has mass immigration become the new White Man's Burden?
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Every moment is a Rubio moment
opinion Marco Rubio is completely dominating the media's "moments" — just not the polls
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How immigration is disrupting the nation state
opinion What happens when the huddled masses can Skype home?
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The morally repugnant response to the Cologne sexual assault gang
opinion Does Germany's leadership class secretly want to destroy the European Union? Because that's what they're doing.
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Ted Cruz is running a glorious campaign — and I still hate him
opinion Ted Cruz is saying all the right things. And yet...
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The Oregon occupiers have a point
opinion Land use law might not be worthy of armed insurrection, but it really is a problem
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Man of the Year 2015
opinion He is the unwelcome reminder that even people who know the Western way of life intimately are capable of despising it
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Jeb Bush, comeback kid?
opinion With no other viable establishment alternative, the GOP may yet turn to Jeb
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'Fairytale of New York': How a soused Irish punk band created the greatest Christmas song of all time
The Explainer It's not just a fun song, it's a salve to the soul
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How Donald Trump channeled doom and gloom to win the GOP debate
opinion It's midnight in America
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Rand Paul in the uncanny valley
opinion By trying to be a more sensible, libertarian-ish candidate, Rand Paul has sucked the drama from his own candidacy
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Can Chris Christie win?
opinion Many in the GOP and media elite are starting to hope so
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The necessary task of integrating Islam within the West
opinion There are unique challenges with integrating Muslims itself into polities shaped by Western liberalism. But it is a task that has to be done.
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Why even people who agree with him hate Ted Cruz
opinion He's a self-serving slimeball
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