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How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality

How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality

Us and them is all the rage.

26.01.2025 400

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Donald Trump Is Running Riot

Donald Trump Is Running Riot

Anyone wondering whether the president was going to pick up from 2017 or 2021 can stop wondering.

24.01.2025 100

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Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom

Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom

MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.

20.01.2025 100

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MAGA Is Misreading Its Mandate

MAGA Is Misreading Its Mandate

America’s political future belongs to the most competent, not the most ideological.

18.01.2025 60

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Biden Has a Pair of Gifts for Trump

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist Donald Trump is a lucky man. The combination of allied courage and...

12.12.2024 60

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The Tennessee Trans Treatment Case Is About Age, Not Sex

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist I cannot begin to imagine the pain of feeling that your body does not...

08.12.2024 4

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Can Martial Law Happen Here?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist Well, that was dangerous — and absurd. On Tuesday, the president of...

05.12.2024 100

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Donald Trump’s Theory of Power Is More Power for Donald Trump

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist These are the times that try a constitutional conservative’s soul....

24.11.2024 40

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The Greatest Cancel Culture Warrior in America Is Donald Trump

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist There is something I want to get off my chest. In the days since the...

21.11.2024 6

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Gaetz and Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Oh, My!

Advertisement transcript This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may...

19.11.2024 10

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Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist That was quick. Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political...

17.11.2024 3

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I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist I want to begin with a wonderful and mysterious story. It begins badly....

14.11.2024 30

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The Curling Theory of Campaigns Proves Itself Again

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist Sarah Isgur, a longtime Republican campaign operative — and my friend and...

10.11.2024 10

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We Don’t Have Time to Waste Time in Despair

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist There is no mystery about what happened Tuesday night. Unlike 2016, when...

07.11.2024 3

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‘If We Care About Justice in America, There’s Going to Be a Lot of Work to Do’

Advertisement Supported by By Patrick Healy and David French Donald Trump’s enduring hold over the Republican Party may send him back to the...

06.11.2024 20

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Four Lessons From Nine Years of Being ‘Never Trump’

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist I’ve been wrong about many things, but here are two of the bigger whiffs...

27.10.2024 40

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Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist As we approach Election Day, I’m cautiously optimistic — not so much...

25.10.2024 60

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I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture, and Neither Do You

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist Few things can change your perspective for the better more than being...

20.10.2024 30

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Let’s Take the Republican Policy Challenge

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist If you live in Red America, as I do, you’re familiar with two...

17.10.2024 60

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November’s Second-Most-Important Election Is in Florida

The fate of Amendment 4 will tell us what the future of the pro-life movement holds.

13.10.2024 10

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Supreme Court Reform Is in the Air

Say no to court packing — and yes to term limits.

10.10.2024 40

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JD Vance and the Prophets of Trumpism

Opinion David French Credit... Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times Supported by By David French Opinion Columnist On Sept. 28, JD Vance spoke at a...

06.10.2024 90

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This Is Why MAGA Loves JD Vance

Trump’s running mate is no Mike Pence.

02.10.2024 50

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Iran Is Losing. That May Matter More Than Israel’s Mistakes.

Military success rarely brings true peace, but it can preserve societies.

29.09.2024 2000

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MAGA Wants Transgression. Mark Robinson Is the Result.

If you favor more of this, vote for Trump.

22.09.2024 1000

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Why Trump Won’t Say He Wants Ukraine to Win

The country lies at the heart of overlapping conspiracy theories important to the former president.

15.09.2024 100

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MAGA Will Fall for Anything

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen during a presidential debate,...

12.09.2024 4

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The Loneliness Epidemic Has a Cure

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist What is the most important single thing that you can do to heal our...

01.09.2024 30

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Joy Can Do More Than Beat Trump

It can push MAGA back to the periphery of American life.

29.08.2024 30

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The Christian Persecution Narrative Rings Hollow

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist This June, I was invited on a friend’s podcast to answer a question...

25.08.2024 50

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Ukraine Is Poking the Russian Bear

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist Here’s one way to think through the importance of the news stories...

15.08.2024 3

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To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris

Advertisement Supported by David French By David French Opinion Columnist I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would...

11.08.2024 100

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Mockery Won’t Increase Fertility

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist I am an enthusiastic natalist. By that I mean that I want our nation to...

09.08.2024 40

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‘I Just Have Some Questions’: An Interview With Justice Gorsuch

Opinion David French Credit... Matt Eich for The New York Times Supported by By David French Opinion Columnist On July 31, I met with Justice Neil...

04.08.2024 20

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Being Good Is as Important as Being Right

Theology is meaningless in the absence of character.

31.07.2024 30

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Criticize Trump, but Don’t Demonize Him

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David French Opinion Columnist When I saw Donald Trump walk into the Republican National Convention on...

19.07.2024 10

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