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.

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Opinion

A curtain falls

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Opinion

Trump loses his grip on a Trumpified GOP

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Letter from a demoralized Pennsylvania voter

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Let people vent to SCOTUS on abortion

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1 loose-lipped bureaucrat could start World War III

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How Dems can make abortion a winning issue

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3 explosive effects of overturning Roe

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Ohio's GOP Senate primary showcases 2 flavors of Trump

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Why Republicans cheered a GDP drop

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The 1 thing Biden got exactly right

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Musk, Twitter, and digital power

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France's center holds. Can it last?

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You can't beat muckrakers at their own game

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Opinion

The real reason Democrats face destruction

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Democrats can win the culture war

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Opinion

Enough with performative mask mandates!

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The problem with 'anyone but her' politics

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Will the far-right prevail in France this weekend?

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The Trump circus, without the clown-in-chief

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Opinion

A lesson in Democracy from Hungary

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Opinion

Dems fall into the culture trap — again

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Damon Linker

Is the Russia-Ukraine war a 'clash of civilizations'?

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What stands between Russia, Ukraine, and peace?

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Who's the real audience for Biden's new budget?

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The right's class warrior shtick

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How far to the right can Republicans go?

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What the 'new right' would do with power

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When the latest COVID wave arrives, do nothing

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A new big tent for antiliberal politics?

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Opinion

Ukraine unites hawks and their critics

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You're wrong about who lives in America

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Zelensky's speech was heart-rending

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What's behind conservative love letters to Ron DeSantis?

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Fighting inflation could flatten the economy

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Opinion

How Reagan was more FDR than Trump

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Putin's Plan B for Ukraine: A DMZ between East and West