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Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents
America committed its worst foreign policy mistake of the post-Cold War era when it invaded Iraq in 2003 to disarm…
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The Mystery of White Rural Rage
Will technological progress lead to mass unemployment? People have been asking that question for two centuries, and the actual answer…
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What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too…
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The Florida Fraudster and the Russian ‘Killer’
When I covered George H.W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 1988, he was so eager to wrap himself in the American…
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What the News and the Pews Have in Common
In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the phrase “extinction-level event” to headline stories…
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Trump’s NATO Threat Reflects a Wider Shift on America’s Place in the World
Alliances that were once seen as the bulwark of the Cold War are now viewed as an outdated albatross by…
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My Father, Ronald Reagan, Would Weep for America
The night before my father died, Ronald Reagan, I listened to his breathing — ragged, thin. Nothing like that of…
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America Between Jesus and Faust
In my Saturday column I dabbled in a peculiar kind of optimism about the American future, arguing that if we…
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We Americans Neglect Our Children
Individually, we adore and pamper our children. We shuttle them from soccer practice to music lessons and then organize their…
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Biden’s Harsh Attack on Trump in a Campaign Speech
More from our inbox: After a Plane Crash: Learning From the JapaneseHow ‘Munich’ Resonates TodayCredit...Pete Marovich for The New York…