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David French

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The Fix Was Almost In

The Fix Was Almost In

The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.

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Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball

Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball

We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.

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Who’s the Snowflake Now?

Who’s the Snowflake Now?

Marco Rubio is taking the wrong approach to free speech.

03.09.2026 9

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What Dolly Did for Tennessee Is What She Did for the World

This is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …

30.08.2026 20

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There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness

The anti-woke movement’s “cure” was more intolerance and more repression.

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Go Ahead, Sean Duffy. Let Your Daughter Go to Harvard.

Four years at Harvard won’t corrupt your children.

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JD Vance Thinks You Are Not Christian Enough

According to the vice president, we are wasting our freedom.

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The War That Could Swallow the World

Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.

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Gen Z Thinks Religion Got Too Political

I wonder why that could be.

30.07.2026 20

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Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse

This “Odyssey” takes us somewhere we didn’t know we were going.

26.07.2026 40

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This Is What’s Keeping Me Up at Night

Stop the steal before it starts.

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‘A Million Men With Kalashnikovs Are Dangerous’

A Q&A with Kori Schake on the Russia-Ukraine war.

16.07.2026 20

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Trump’s Corruption Stains, From Texas to Maine

Something is wrong if vice is all them and virtue is all you.

12.07.2026 30

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Is America’s MAGA Wing Giving Up on America?

The right’s birthright meltdown is in full effect.

09.07.2026 20

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Amy Coney Barrett Is the Lightning Rod

The Supreme Court seesaw is swinging hard.

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Beware the Purging of General Donahue

The dangers of Pete Hegseth are mounting.

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Two-Party System, One-Party Rule

Why does our seemingly competitive political system produce so much stagnation and corruption?

25.06.2026 30

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A Malicious Chapter in the History of American Justice

The Trump administration is the nation’s chief threat to the rule of law.

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Trump and Netanyahu Have Really Stepped in It Now

America and Israel have snatched defeat from victory.

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MAGA’s French Connection

Christian nationalism has dark forebears.

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The Terrible Man Theory of History

The solution to Trumpism isn’t to conform to the spirit of the age, but to transform it.

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Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship

I just realized why I liked ‘Hacks’ so much.

04.06.2026 40

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The Museum of Wretched Ideas Has Reopened

We seem to have forgotten more or less everything.

31.05.2026 70

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Three Ways Trump Is Losing the War

The president is giving a master class in what not to do in Iran.

28.05.2026 40

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Trump Is Giving ‘The Fix Was In’ New Meaning

There are scandals. There is the law. And then there’s this.

21.05.2026 60

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We Need More ‘Rabid Partisans’ Like Shane Massey

Defeating a sclerotic rump of a party is no achievement. Instead, one-party rule enables corruption. It fosters stagnation.

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I Don’t Think You Can Even Call This Hypocrisy

The secrets of one of the architects of the religious right are being revealed. One of the secrets is that they weren’t really secrets.

14.05.2026 40

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The Platner Trap

The exact wrong answer to a Republican Party that’s flirting with fascism is a man who chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body.

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True Believers Blow Trump’s Mind

Our most transactional president is having trouble processing.

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There’s a 900-Year-Old Answer to Our Most Modern Problem

What should we do when a chatbot behaves like a criminal?

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Meet the New Leader of the Free World

The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.

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There Is Much More to Pope vs. President Than Meets the Eye

What fighting an unjust war really means.

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The Divine Right of … Presidents?

It didn’t work out too well for kings, either.

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We Are Gambling Away Our Future

America’s view of liberty is upside down.

16.04.2026 70

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Trump Is Tearing at the Soul of the Military

If an unlawful order comes from the president himself, to whom does the soldier appeal?

09.04.2026 100

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A Smoldering Wick in the Darkness

The light that changed my life.

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Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?

It may be a new world, but “it’s the same Constitution.”

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Don’t Cheer Too Hard for the Facebook Verdicts

Courts aren’t always the right answer to our digital problems.

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How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?

The just resentments of a shrinking middle class.

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Can Military Excellence Save Us From Trump’s Incompetence?

It should never have come to this.

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The Omnipresence of Donald Trump Should Open Our Eyes

We have reached end-stage polarization.

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I Declare War on You

Our constitutional framework for war lies in pieces around us.

12.03.2026 60

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James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray

The Democratic senate candidate in Texas is teaching us about what faith really means.

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War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

The Constitution isn’t a technicality.

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‘Time Is Not on Russia’s Side’

If the battle for Ukraine Is not World War I or World War III, what is it?

26.02.2026 50

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Is This the Most Important Supreme Court Case of the Century?

The tariff ruling may have just helped save the Republic.

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Christians Against Empathy Aren’t Who They Think They Are

Compassion is not toxic.

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Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

Toward a sane Christian Zionism.

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Mass Detention Gets a Lift From the Courts

A very dangerous ruling in New Orleans.

12.02.2026 60

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A Movie About America Broke My Heart

I am not a Shaker. That didn’t stop me from tearing up at “The Testament of Ann Lee.”

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