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The columnist Bret Stephens on what’s at stake for the Middle East and American Jews.
Is there a way to elect an independent bloc of senators?
The various ways that the G.O.P. legislation doesn’t address itself to America’s most important problems.
Toward a unified theory of an extremely weird situation.
A conversation with the original tech right power player.
Lina Khan wants to overthrow “the autocrats of trade.”
Why the president is disappointing noninterventionists.
Canada’s assisted suicide law should tell us something about the bill that New York’s Legislature just passed.
A historian of conservatism explains what holds a fractious coalition together.
How did the great rocketeer become a deficit scold?
The showrunner Tony Gilroy on the political ideologies of “Andor.”
How the continent’s divisions compare to America’s own factions.
Chickening out is crucial to his political success.
What would make you want to have more children?
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.
Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who’s screwing them.
The left has dictated culture for decades. Jonathan Keeperman is trying to change that.
Papal weakness has also opened up other possibilities for Christian and Catholic witness.
Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.
And how this could all go down in the courts.
My new show will look at our strange and getting-stranger world.
Oren Cass makes the case for tariffs.
What Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish — and reasons for skepticism.
A national security scandal is manageable. A bunker mentality spells doom.
Why historically minded believers still find the New Testament credible.
Trump’s agenda doesn’t serve the superrich.
Turns out Charles de Gaulle was right.
MAGA can’t run a regime change on its own.
Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”
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But realism needs more diplomacy to work.
How the vibe shift of 2025 could be squandered.
Why the problem of evil is not really an argument for atheism.
The real stakes of the U.S.A.I.D. debate.
We, ourselves, are part of the proof.
A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery.
In search of a ‘Golden Path’ through the age of A.I.
The fight for Donald Trump’s ear.
Cultural hegemony requires a light touch, not an inquisition
The second Trump White House is starting out with a remarkable degree of conflict among different individuals, constituencies and worldviews.
The only possibility for a second Trump term that would be truly surprising is a period of unlooked-for calm.
Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.
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