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Damon Linker

Senior correspondent

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.

Protesters.

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The question that may decide the fate of Roe

Trauma.

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What if 'trauma' isn't real?

Philadelphia.

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America's spiking homicide rates should be a priority

President Biden.

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Opinion

The false narrative of 'the narrative'

Female songwriters.

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Opinion

How women took over songwriting

A Thanksgiving fight.

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Family, politics, and classical liberalism

Donkeys.

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A liberal diagnoses the Democratic Party's pathologies

Fox News.

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Fox was toxic long before Carlson's Jan. 6 movie

The Statue of Liberty.

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Opinion

The spiritual crisis of an overdose record

British Columbia flooding.

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Climate change body slams the west coast of Canada

Autocrats.

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Our outdated autocracy talk

Liz Cheney.

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Republicans' divisions could be their midterm strength

The Constitutional convention and slavery.

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Opinion

The muddled middle of the 1619 Project

A safe guy.

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Opinion

The perils of the risk-averse society

A voting sticker.

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The 9 categories of American voter

Donald Trump.

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The smart debate rumbling through the Never Trump right

President Biden.

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Biden's democracy summit stumbles on the invite list

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

The once and future idiot king

President Biden.

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Opinion

Lessons of a shrinking bill

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

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How Manchin and Sinema differ — and why it doesn't matter

A question mark.

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The important lesson of Ross Douthat's medical memoir

The Facebook thumb.

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Why social media can't be regulated like other media

Dave Chappelle.

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Opinion

Why does wokeness drive me crazy?

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

The 'Trump app' will be the insurrection on steroids

President Biden and Donald Trump.

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Good news for Trump, bad news for Biden

Handcuffs.

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A glimpse of the post-Roe future

A donkey and an elephant.

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Opinion

Do Democrats really want to save democracy?

Colin Powell.

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Colin Powell at his worst — and most human

Blocs.

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Opinion

Downfall of the anti-populists?

Eggs.

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The answer to inflation isn't more government spending

A conveyor belt.

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The quick economic recovery we were promised isn't coming

President Biden.

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Biden's plan to snoop in your bank account

Fantasy.

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Opinion

The 4 fantasies dominating American politics

President Biden.

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Opinion

Biden's plummeting presidency

A radiator.

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Winter's looming energy crisis

Museum extinction.

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Opinion

The sticky problem of making Facebook go away