Grayson Quay

Weekend editor

Grayson Quay is the weekend editor at TheWeek.com. His writing has also been published in National Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Modern Age, The American Conservative, The Spectator World, and other outlets. Grayson earned his M.A. from Georgetown University in 2019.

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keep it down

News stories about the U.S. sharing intel with Ukraine are counterproductive, Biden tells officials

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hitting back

Ukrainian counteroffensive could drive Russians back from Kharkiv

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: May 7, 2022

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Opinion

Understanding the Dave Chappelle attack

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look to the north

Putin-allied Belarus begins large-scale combat readiness drills

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turning off the tap

EU announces plan to phase out all Russian oil imports

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ecclesiastical burn

Pope says Russian Orthodox patriarch shouldn't act like 'Putin's altar boy'

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Opinion

What's next for the pro-life movement?

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swing votes sound off

Collins, Murkowski, Manchin, and Sinema weigh in on SCOTUS leak

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swallowed up

Russia plans to annex territory in eastern Ukraine as early as this month, U.S. official says

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Briefing

What to watch for in the Ohio and Indiana primaries

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on the case

Grand jury members selected for Georgia criminal probe into Trump

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'unforgivable'

Israel slams Russia for suggesting that Hitler was Jewish

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Opinion

Understanding the menthol-flavored cigarette debate

Village damaged during fighting in Ukraine

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incalculable loss

Civilian death toll in Ukraine tops 3,000, U.N. says

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wheels up

Nancy Pelosi meets with Zelensky in Kyiv

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requiescat in pace

Country singer Naomi Judd dead at 76

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nerd prom

'Brandon' is having a 'really good year,' Biden quips at White House Correspondents' Dinner

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: May 1, 2022

Power station destroyed by Russian rocket attack in eastern Ukraine

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war in the east

Russia's offensive in the Donbas is 'not succeeding,' Ukrainian military says

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'i'm fed up'

Sean Hannity warned Mark Meadows about 'fing lunatics' advising Trump

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free fallin'

The S&P 500 is having its worst year since World War II

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: April 30, 2022

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Briefing

A history of slavery at Harvard University and beyond

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can he still become speaker?

Kevin McCarthy defends Jan. 6 comments about Trump resignation

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out of the pandemic, into the ... ?

Fauci says we're out of 'the pandemic phase' but might need to get vaccinated 'every year'

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karma or payback?

Is Ukraine launching strikes on Russian soil?

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Briefing

How Russia's war could expand beyond Ukraine

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blowing up his phone

Donald Trump Jr. warned on Jan. 6 that riot fallout could 'f--k' his father's 'entire legacy'

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'back to life'

Blinken tells senators Ukraine 'has won the battle for Kyiv'

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off the hook

Biden makes first use of presidential pardon power

Phone displaying Trump's banned Twitter account

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abiding in truth (social)

Trump won't rejoin Twitter even if Elon Musk invites him back

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he actually did it

Elon Musk buys Twitter, will take social media giant private

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hand 'em over

Trump held in contempt of court and fined $10,000 per day

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pushed to the brink

Biden to fill Ukraine ambassadorship, vacant since 2019

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not going anywhere

Joe Manchin's approval rating is up 16 points since Biden became president