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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.

President Biden.

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Opinion

The incredible vanishing president

President Biden.

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Biden has an insurmountable challenge in Europe

Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Trump's corrosive influence on democracy goes global

Newlyweds.

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The left's biggest culture war victory

Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

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The strongest evidence yet that the neoliberal era is over

Joe Manchin.

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In defense of Joe Manchin

A wedding cake.

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Opinion

The great American divorce

Donald Trump.

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Trump doubly jeopardized the GOP

Michael Flynn and Donald Trump.

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The right's rhetorical ratchet

Truly Tasteless Jokes.

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Why political correctness fails

Donald Trump and Johann Herder.

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The spiritual challenge of multiculturalism

A flag.

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The civil war of 2024?

Gaza City.

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The wisdom of pessimism in the Israel-Palestinian conflict

Uncle Sam and a baby.

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The doom-loop of a falling fertility rate

A graveyard.

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The collapse of the GOP? It's just wishful thinking

Joe Biden with lunch.

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America's new free-lunch politics

President Biden.

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Biden's self-imposed ceiling

DNA.

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Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara illuminates what meritocracy does to the soul

President Biden.

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Biden's big if

A flag.

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The right's reactionary temptation

A person reacting to the Chauvin verdict.

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Racial justice has a Goldilocks problem

People wearing masks.

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Is it stupid to worry about unlikely things?

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

Donald Trump's most dangerous political legacy

A computer.

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The world that Google, Facebook, and Twitter built

Taliban fighters.

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When the Taliban takes Kabul

Donald Trump.

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Trump finally jumps the shark

President Biden and Martin Sheen.

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What I learned rewatching The West Wing in the Biden era

Clarence Thomas.

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Clarence Thomas and the enigma of social media

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The GOP's cultural impotence

Reagan.

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Biden slams the door on Reaganism

Church.

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The turbulent ride of post-church America

A man painting on a symbol.

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Hate cancel culture? Stop supporting the GOP.

Fingers.

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The pandemic blame game

Protesters.

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The radical future of the pro-life movement

A fist.

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Beware the lonely, angry men

An American flag.

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Bureaucrats are terrible. The alternatives are worse.