Michael Brendan Dougherty

Senior correspondent

Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.

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Opinion

Where was the liberal uproar over Obama's wars in the Middle East?

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Opinion

What I hope for in the age of Trump

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Feature

Why it may be impossible to raise 'free range kids'

Will President Trump differ from his reality television persona?

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Analysis

The reality TV presidency begins

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Opinion

What I fear about the age of Trump

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Opinion

How NATO grew fat and Russia took advantage

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Opinion

Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal

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Opinion

Students don't want to learn anymore. They want to teach.

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Opinion

Democrats are about to do a 180 on foreign policy. Just you wait.

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Opinion

A child abuse scandal is coming for Pope Francis

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Opinion

The pathetic end of the Obama era

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Opinion

4 history books that changed my view of the world in 2016

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Opinion

Poland is not descending into tyranny. It's just defying the EU.

Angela Merkel visits the site of the Christmas market attack.

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Opinion

Angela Merkel is destroying Europe

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Opinion

How Donald Trump exiled the political class

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Analysis

Why the Karlov assassination might not change much

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Opinion

Conservatives are getting everything they want from Trump. They may regret it.

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Opinion

How Obama made Syria's civil war much, much worse

Welcome to the age of information suspicion, America.

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Opinion

America's hacking panic

A "white pride" rally in Georgia in April, 2016.

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Opinion

The media's astonishing fixation on a tiny band of white nationalists

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Analysis

The cookbook as spiritual autobiography

The war in Yemen will not end unless the U.S. stops aiding Saudi Arabia.

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Opinion

End the war in Yemen, Mr. Trump

Donald Trump and his team have no idea what they're in for.

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Opinion

Donald Trump and the unprepared populists

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Opinion

How America's elections are ruining America

Can Donald Trump actually turn things around?

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Opinion

What if we really can make America great again?

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Analysis

How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996

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Opinion

How liberals totally blew it on Donald Trump

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Opinion

How Donald Trump won Obama voters — and what he'll do now

Opinion

This election is God's judgment on us

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Opinion

The election that forgot about the future

Hillary Clinton is exactly like the system she defends.

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Opinion

The Clinton presidency is going to be a miserable slog

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Analysis

Can Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee reinvent themselves — and their party?

President Bush speaks to Marines in California in 2004.

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Opinion

How the 2016 election postpones the Republican reckoning on Iraq

A Trump supporter waits for a rally to start.

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Analysis

How Donald Trump spectacularly failed his supporters

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Analysis

The 2016 World Series is already perfect

Hillary Clinton during the final presidential debate.

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Analysis

It's over: Hillary Clinton just finished off Donald Trump