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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.

Where was the liberal uproar over Obama's wars in the Middle East?
Dig a little deeper.
Opinion

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

What I hope for in the age of Trump
An end to the post-Cold War era.
Opinion

What I hope for in the age of Trump

Why it may be impossible to raise 'free range kids'
Neighborhood kids.
Feature

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

The reality TV presidency begins
Will President Trump differ from his reality television persona?
Analysis

The reality TV presidency begins

What I fear about the age of Trump
What if Trump is a non-president?
Opinion

What I fear about the age of Trump

How NATO grew fat and Russia took advantage
Vladimir Putin's push for power.
Opinion

How NATO grew fat and Russia took advantage

Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal
It was a petty attempt at revenge.
Opinion

Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal

Students don't want to learn anymore. They want to teach.
Students are missing the point.
Opinion

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

Democrats are about to do a 180 on foreign policy. Just you wait.
It's peacetime for Dems
Opinion

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

A child abuse scandal is coming for Pope Francis
A dark horizon for the pope.
Opinion

A child abuse scandal is coming for Pope Francis

The pathetic end of the Obama era
President Obama's broken promises.
Opinion

The pathetic end of the Obama era

4 history books that changed my view of the world in 2016
Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
Opinion

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

Poland is not descending into tyranny. It's just defying the EU.
Supporters of Law and Justice party.
Opinion

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

Angela Merkel is destroying Europe
Angela Merkel visits the site of the Christmas market attack.
Opinion

Angela Merkel is destroying Europe

How Donald Trump exiled the political class
There's a new boss in town.
Opinion

How Donald Trump exiled the political class

Why the Karlov assassination might not change much
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Analysis

Why the Karlov assassination might not change much

Conservatives are getting everything they want from Trump. They may regret it.
Don't get to cocky.
Opinion

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

How Obama made Syria's civil war much, much worse
The horror in Aleppo.
Opinion

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

America's hacking panic
Welcome to the age of information suspicion, America.
Opinion

America's hacking panic

The media's astonishing fixation on a tiny band of white nationalists
A "white pride" rally in Georgia in April, 2016.
Opinion

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

The cookbook as spiritual autobiography
Anthony Bourdain's new cookbook.
Analysis

The cookbook as spiritual autobiography

End the war in Yemen, Mr. Trump
The war in Yemen will not end unless the U.S. stops aiding Saudi Arabia.
Opinion

End the war in Yemen, Mr. Trump

Donald Trump and the unprepared populists
Donald Trump and his team have no idea what they're in for.
Opinion

Donald Trump and the unprepared populists

How America's elections are ruining America
The election has taken its toll.
Opinion

How America's elections are ruining America

What if we really can make America great again?
Can Donald Trump actually turn things around?
Opinion

What if we really can make America great again?

How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996
The populist moment has arrived.
Analysis

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

How liberals totally blew it on Donald Trump
The unlikely politician.
Opinion

How liberals totally blew it on Donald Trump

How Donald Trump won Obama voters — and what he'll do now
No. 45.
Opinion

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

This election is God's judgment on us
Opinion

This election is God's judgment on us

The election that forgot about the future
Look toward the future,
Opinion

The election that forgot about the future

The Clinton presidency is going to be a miserable slog
Hillary Clinton is exactly like the system she defends.
Opinion

The Clinton presidency is going to be a miserable slog

Can Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee reinvent themselves — and their party?
Tea Party Senator Rand Paul.
Analysis

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

How the 2016 election postpones the Republican reckoning on Iraq
President Bush speaks to Marines in California in 2004.
Opinion

How the 2016 election postpones the Republican reckoning on Iraq

How Donald Trump spectacularly failed his supporters
A Trump supporter waits for a rally to start.
Analysis

How Donald Trump spectacularly failed his supporters

The 2016 World Series is already perfect
The winning Game Six.
Analysis

The 2016 World Series is already perfect

It's over: Hillary Clinton just finished off Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton during the final presidential debate.
Analysis

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