Damon Linker

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The inescapable inadequacy of our COVID blame game

opinion Blaming the virus isn't very satisfying. Maybe that's why we're blaming each other.

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  Congress sets out to prevent a replay of the Capitol riot

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  By Damon Linker Published 5 January 22

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  How close is America to a new civil war?

  opinion It's not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it's still worth debate.

  By Damon Linker Published 4 January 22

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  What's behind the public health switcheroo on COVID?

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  By Damon Linker Published 2 January 22

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  How should the U.S. respond to the coming Russian invasion of Ukraine?

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  By Damon Linker Published 22 December 21

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  A worldview captured in a headline

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  By Damon Linker Published 21 December 21

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  The dangerous vigilantism that fueled Jan. 6

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  By Damon Linker Published 15 December 21

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  The wrong Americans don't care about COVID

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  By Damon Linker Published 14 December 21

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  Why is political discontent destabilizing the democratic world?

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  By Damon Linker Published 8 December 21

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  The government is shockingly bad at counting stuff

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  By Damon Linker Published 7 December 21

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  The question that may determine the future of abortion rights

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  By Damon Linker Published 1 December 21

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  What if 'trauma' isn't real?

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  By Damon Linker Published 1 December 21

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  Murder rates are spiking in medium-sized cities. Where's the outcry?

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  By Damon Linker Published 30 November 21

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  Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, and Rihanna: How women took over songwriting

  opinion We're living in the golden age of women songwriters

  By Damon Linker Published 26 November 21

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  Why are Americans drugging themselves to death?

  opinion Drugs, agony, and the pain of radical individualism

  By Damon Linker Published 19 November 21

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  The chaos on Canada's west coast is a preview of climate change woes to come

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  By Damon Linker Published 18 November 21

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  The muddle at the middle of the 1619 Project

  opinion An unresolved contradiction still plagues the controversial history as it releases in book form

  By Damon Linker Published 16 November 21

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  The perils of the risk-averse society

  opinion Do we really want to live like this?

  By Damon Linker Published 12 November 21

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  The 9 categories of American voter

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  By Damon Linker Published 10 November 21

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  The smart debate rumbling through the Never Trump right

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  By Damon Linker Published 10 November 21

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  The important lesson of Ross Douthat's medical memoir

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  By Damon Linker Published 26 October 21

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  Why social media can't be regulated like other media

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  By Damon Linker Published 26 October 21

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  3 new polling takeaways for Trump, Biden, and congressional Democrats

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  By Damon Linker Published 20 October 21

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  This Oklahoma case gives us a horrifying glimpse of the post-Roe future

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  By Damon Linker Published 19 October 21

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  The quick economic recovery we were promised isn't coming

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  By Damon Linker Published 12 October 21

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