Picture of Damon Linker

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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.

Donald Trump and Stacey Abrams.

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Opinion

Donald Trump's upside-down authoritarianism

Donald Trump.

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The unimportance of Trump's incompetence

The German flag.

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2 big takeaways from the German election

A COVID hole.

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Opinion

Stuck in the pandemic

A median voter.

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Democrats scare off the median voter

A man being burned at the stake.

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Is 'cancel culture' really so bad?

The Qanon Shaman.

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The 1887 law that could end American democracy

President Biden.

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Opinion

America's Great Game with China

President Biden.

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Opinion

Biden at his best and worst

A donkey.

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A warning sign in a blowout

Rod Dreher.

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The New Yorker hears out a supposedly mortal enemy

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When Never Trumpers become Never Republicans

America.

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Opinion

The GOP's ticking time bomb

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Opinion

Biden's political peril

Peter Singer.

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The trendy philosopher who just won $1 million

September 11.

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Opinion

The 21st century began on 9/11

Mick Jagger.

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Opinion

What rock fans don't want to admit

An angry man.

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The right's boilerplate indignation on Afghanistan

A farm.

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Is rural America becoming a new Confederacy?

President Biden.

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Opinion

Avoiding the next mistake in Afghanistan

President Biden.

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Opinion

Joe Biden's terrible August just got worse

Afghanistan.

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4 smart perspectives on Afghanistan

The German flag.

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Germany's surprising center-left resurgence

An airlift.

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Opinion

Just getting started

COVID and screaming.

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Opinion

What endless COVID means for politics

President Biden.

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Is Biden prepared for the fall of Kabul?

Mitch McConnell.

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McConnell's long play on infrastructure

Andrew Cuomo.

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Cuomo's begrudging resignation

Viktor Orban.

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Opinion

What American conservatives really admire about Orbán's Hungary

Republicans.

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The Marjorie Taylor Greene caucus goes to Liz Cheney's backyard

President Biden and Andrew Cuomo.

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Opinion

A healthier politics is possible

People yelling.

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The culture war goes global

Tucker Carlson.

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Tucker Carlson's Budapest pilgrimage

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

Predicting American democracy's zero hour

A cross.

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What the latest church scandal teaches about the Catholic right

Simone Biles.

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The culture war comes for Simone Biles