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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.

A stamp.

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Opinion

What the woke revolution is — and isn't

An elephant.

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Opinion

Will the GOP's culture war gambit blow up in its face?

Cannons.

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Opinion

The revealing showdown on voting rights

The Capitol building.

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Opinion

Politics needs fiscal constraints

The working class.

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Opinion

What Republicans talk about when they talk about the 'working class'

Freedom of Speech.

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Opinion

The lost art of being reasonable

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

Trump still has the Republican Party by the throat

Josh Hawley.

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Opinion

Josh Hawley, Senator No

American Gothic.

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Opinion

Why Americans are essentially conservative

A vaccination site.

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Analysis

America's maddeningly inept vaccine rollout

Rush Limbaugh.

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Opinion

The chilling tributes to Rush Limbaugh

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

Trump comes out of hiding

The Capitol riot.

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Opinion

Trump will be convicted by history, right?

The Capitol building.

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Opinion

It is both right and foolish to try Trump

Socrates.

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Opinion

Cancel the Classics?

The Capitol building.

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Opinion

How politics became a battle for your attention

Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Opinion

Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting exactly what she wants

The Capitol building.

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Opinion

America's overreaction syndrome

A foot.

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Opinion

Liberal democracy's Achilles Heel

A donkey.

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Opinion

The left's fake Senate majority

President Biden.

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Opinion

The media has to do better than this

President Biden and Jill Biden.

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Opinion

The anxiety of hope

President Biden.

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Opinion

Joe Biden needs to get real

President Trump.

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Opinion

The most alarming thing about the Trump presidency

Civil war.

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Opinion

The worst-case scenario for America's immediate future

A Trump supporter.

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Opinion

America's rendezvous with reality

A Trump supporter.

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Opinion

Can Trump's revolutionary faction be contained?

The Capitol building.

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Opinion

The bloody power of symbolic gestures

Tom Cotton.

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Opinion

The Tom Cotton gambit to win the Republican future

An American flag.

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Opinion

Are we witnessing the fall of the United States?

President Trump Anthony Fauci Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg.

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Feature

What I got wrong in 2020

Battle lines at the Capitol.

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Analysis

Trump fails to redraw politics' battle lines

A house.

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Opinion

Our pandemic half-lives

Phoebe Bridgers.

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Feature

Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher was the best album of 2020

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Feature

The anti-social media

Dynamite.

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Opinion

How we get to civil war