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David French

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Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

09.11.2025 100

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Trump Is Always Teaching Us About the Constitution

Trump Is Always Teaching Us About the Constitution

Where is the line between authority and authoritarianism?

06.11.2025 10

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Why Trump Can Do No Wrong

Why Trump Can Do No Wrong

If there is no cover-up, then there must not have been a crime.

02.11.2025 100

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‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’

‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’

The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.

26.10.2025 10

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How Women Destroyed the West

How Women Destroyed the West

The new right pines for a story that would vindicate its reactionary rage.

23.10.2025 20

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Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level

The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.

19.10.2025 100

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Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

Don’t mistake a revolution for a revival.

16.10.2025 20

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How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

Dishonest presidents should be entitled to no deference at all.

12.10.2025 300

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Should They Just Go Ahead and Put Up a Gold Trump Sign on the Supreme Court?

A pivotal term beckons.

09.10.2025 3

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The Grace That Gives Us Hope

There’s a way out of this, and people in despair are leading the way.

05.10.2025 100

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Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over D.E.I.

The Trump administration is a mockery of the idea of meritocracy.

02.10.2025 100

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Make No Mistake About Where We Are

The political prosecution of James Comey.

28.09.2025 100

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Trump’s Malice Is Not an Instrument of God’s Plan

If MAGA evangelicals cheer the president’s hatred, if they welcome it, if they adopt it, and if they vote for it, then they are responsible for it.

23.09.2025 10

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Crony Capitalism Has Reached a New Low

The TikTok deal is Trumpism 101.

21.09.2025 10

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The Dangers of the Charlie Kirk Aftermath

Frederick Douglass knew what free speech was. Why don’t we?

18.09.2025 100

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There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too

No matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the right.

14.09.2025 200

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If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die

An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.

11.09.2025 100

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It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is

We do not kill those merely suspected of being criminals from the air.

07.09.2025 30

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How Did the Latchkey Kids of Gen X Become the Helicopter Parents of Gen Z?

There is a Goldilocks solution here.

04.09.2025 20

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The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet

How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

31.08.2025 100

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Trump Has Dropped an ‘Atomic Bomb’ on the Department of Justice

The president has raised the stakes.

28.08.2025 50

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What It Really Means to Choose Life

In a decent society, life-or-death decisions are never easy.

24.08.2025 30

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One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems

An amendment that can help save our democracy.

21.08.2025 300

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Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military.

The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.

17.08.2025 100

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Why a ‘Paleo-Confederate’ Pastor Is on the Rise

Trump isn’t just shaping the nation; he’s also changing the evangelical church.

14.08.2025 20

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This Is No Way to Run a Country

Federal judges are under threat across the nation.

07.08.2025 100

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Israel Must Open Its Eyes

Defeating Hamas does not require starving a single child.

03.08.2025 100

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The Boy Who Cried Hoax

Alternative facts have become alternative realities.

31.07.2025 20

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The Raw Power of Repentance

“The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?

27.07.2025 100

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Christian Cancel Culture Strikes Again

Chip and Joanna Gaines had the temerity to feature a gay couple on their new show.

24.07.2025 100

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Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase

The president is determined to transform America’s legal system into his personal political weapon.

21.07.2025 200

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MAGA Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Jeffrey Epstein

What happens when Trump becomes the “deep state”?

13.07.2025 100

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Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat

We had different ideas about what’s making men’s lives hard.

10.07.2025 30

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One of the Worst Industries in the World Gets Its Comeuppance

Porn platforms just got what they deserved at the Supreme Court.

06.07.2025 100

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A Reckless Judicial Nomination Puts the Senate to the Test

Trump wants one of his lawyers to be one of his judges.

29.06.2025 100

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Is This Really a New Middle East?

Trying to peer through the fog of war.

26.06.2025 10

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The Problem of the Christian Assassin

What would make you put down your Bible and pick up your gun?

19.06.2025 100

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Millions of Americans Like Trump Better in Theory Than in Practice

Why the president wins, loses and wins again.

15.06.2025 20

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America Is No Longer a Stable Country

Trump is playing with fire, which is just how he likes it.

09.06.2025 200

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Justice Jackson Just Helped Reset the D.E.I. Debate

How much should the law treat a person as an individual rather than as a member of a group?

08.06.2025 20

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Selfishness Is Not a Virtue

Evangelical Christianity has taken a wrong turn.

05.06.2025 200

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Why Trump Is Mad at the ‘Sleazebag’ Leonard Leo

The president is very unhappy with the federal judiciary and the Federalist Society.

01.06.2025 90

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The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem

To reach the manosphere, you have to know the manosphere.

29.05.2025 10

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The Man Who Knew When to Step Down

David Souter set an example more leaders should follow.

22.05.2025 60

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Trump Is No Longer the Most Important American

Neither MAGA nor woke, the new pontiff confounds political categories.

12.05.2025 300

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Harvard May Not Be the Hero We Want, but It Is the Hero We Need

The university’s defense of the Constitution doesn’t absolve it of its own sins, but the defense of the Constitution often comes through imperfect...

27.04.2025 50

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The Anti-Woke Right Has a Lot to Answer For

DeSantis walked so that Trump could run.

25.04.2025 100

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Were You Raised in a Church That Fears the World or Loves Its Neighbors?

As anger and fear dominate the public square, a church that follows a resurrected savior should be a balm, not a blowtorch.

21.04.2025 200

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The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do

The justices and the American people must hold the line together.

18.04.2025 100

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The Supreme Court Ruled. Trump and the A.C.L.U. Both Claimed Victory. Huh?

The administration won a narrow procedural victory, but it took a substantial constitutional loss.

13.04.2025 60

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