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Aug 31, 2023
I intended to write a normal horse-race column this week, about what we can glean from the polling that came out after the first Republican debate. The emphasis was...
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May 19, 2023
Of all the ways to win a culture war, the smoothest is to just make the other side seem hopelessly uncool. So it’s been with the march of marijuana legalization: There have...
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May 16, 2023
Just before the South Carolina Republican primary in 2012, CNN’s John King opened a presidential debate by asking Newt Gingrich what he probably considered a tough question,...
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May 2, 2023
The rapid abandonment of the SAT and ACT as requirements for college admissions, to the point where more than 80 percent of four-year colleges didn’t require a...
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Mar 21, 2023
This week the conservative writer Bethany Mandel had the kind of moment that can happen to anyone who talks in public for a living: While promoting a new book critiquing...
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Mar 4, 2023
Politics, decadence and pantheism in the Magic Kingdom.
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Mar 2, 2023
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Feb 23, 2023
American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them, more likely to experience...
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Jan 18, 2023
Ross Douthat and two analysts discuss Kevin McCarthy, the House G.O.P. and the looming drama over the government borrowing cap.
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Jan 18, 2023
Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a positive job approval rating — even hitting 50 percent...
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Jan 2, 2023
Pope Benedict’s legacy will be felt across decades or even centuries.
Aug 31, 2023I intended to write a normal horse-race column this week, about what we can glean from the polling that came out after the first Republican debate. The emphasis was...
May 19, 2023Of all the ways to win a culture war, the smoothest is to just make the other side seem hopelessly uncool. So it’s been with the march of marijuana legalization: There have...
May 16, 2023Just before the South Carolina Republican primary in 2012, CNN’s John King opened a presidential debate by asking Newt Gingrich what he probably considered a tough question,...
May 2, 2023The rapid abandonment of the SAT and ACT as requirements for college admissions, to the point where more than 80 percent of four-year colleges didn’t require a...
Mar 21, 2023This week the conservative writer Bethany Mandel had the kind of moment that can happen to anyone who talks in public for a living: While promoting a new book critiquing...
Mar 4, 2023Politics, decadence and pantheism in the Magic Kingdom.
Mar 2, 2023
Feb 23, 2023American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them, more likely to experience...
Jan 18, 2023Ross Douthat and two analysts discuss Kevin McCarthy, the House G.O.P. and the looming drama over the government borrowing cap.
Jan 18, 2023Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a positive job approval rating — even hitting 50 percent...
Jan 2, 2023Pope Benedict’s legacy will be felt across decades or even centuries.