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May 24, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Good-bye, Theresa. Hello, Boris? Why the populist right keeps gaining ground — and center keeps losing it — in Europe, and around the world.
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May 17, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Elizabeth Warren Just Transformed the Abortion Debate The war over a woman’s right to choose has been raging for a half century. The solution lies in politics, not Supreme Court decisions.
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May 10, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Who Should Be Allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports? The debate is legitimate and important. But some of the arguments being made in major publications are patently false.
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May 3, 2019
Why Joe Biden Might Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump He can run on a platform deeply informed by the left’s ideas, without the baggage of wokeness or socialism. And he flummoxes the president.
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Apr. 26, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: The Appeasement of Donald Trump The angry king is banking every concession and, empowered and emboldened, getting more aggressive and more power hungry.
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Apr. 19, 2019
Sullivan: There Was No Russia Conspiracy. But Trump Is More Dangerous Than Ever. The Mueller report reveals a man who is a constant threat to the rule of law. Impeachment is the only answer.
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Apr. 12, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: The Opportunity of White Anxiety The answer to the disturbing rise of far-right politics might lie in a new liberal politics that recognizes the legitimacy of some conservative fears.
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Apr. 5, 2019
Is Pete Buttigieg a Transformational Candidate? There are signs that he could change American politics. There are also a lot of open questions.
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Mar. 29, 2019
Why the Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America Let’s count all the ways we got lucky and dodged disastrous scenarios.
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Mar. 22, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Trump Is a Massive Failure — and Getting Exactly What He Wants At the level of governance, he’s a catastrophe. But meanwhile he keeps tightening his grasp on the country.
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Mar. 8, 2019
How Should We Talk About the Israel Lobby’s Power? Representative Ilhan Omar failed to address it effectively. But it’s a legitimately difficult thing to do.
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Mar. 1, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: A Radically Moderate Answer to Climate Change Sometimes moderation isn’t just the mushy middle between two extremes; it’s a form of pragmatic and even revolutionary imagination.
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Feb. 22, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: The Corruption of the Vatican’s Gay Elite Has Been Exposed A jaw-dropping new book destroys the remains of the Vatican’s moral authority.
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Feb. 15, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: New Hope and New Danger on the Left As a tide of youthful energy pulls Democrats to the left, they should pay close attention to the successes and failures of Britain’s Labour Party.
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Feb. 1, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: The Nature of Sex There are enormous dangers in trying to legislate away the differences between social constructs and biological realities on the question of gender.
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Jan. 25, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate After the Covington debacle, it is clearer than ever: Liberal democracy is being dismantled before our eyes — by all of us.
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Jan. 21, 2019
Gay Priests and the Lives They No Longer Want to Hide Thousands of priests are closeted, and the Vatican’s failure to reckon with their sexuality has created a crisis for Catholicism.
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Jan. 11, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Welcome to Act III of the Trump Tragedy Threatening the unnecessary use of emergency powers to accomplish a trivial political goal marks a new phase in America’s anti-democratic spiral.
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Dec. 21, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War Keep that in mind when listening to the many defenders of the shadowy and unconstitutional occupation in Syria and the endless slog in Afghanistan.
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Dec. 14, 2018
Theresa May Might Be the Most Important Person in the World Right Now Under ridiculous conditions, she’s trying to find a way to keep the U.K. — and perhaps all of Europe — from spinning off into populist chaos.
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Dec. 7, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: America’s New Religions Political cults are increasingly filling the empty space in our lives left by the decline of organized faiths.
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Nov. 30, 2018
The Right’s Climate Change Shame Republicans are out of arguments, and the Earth is out of time.
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Nov. 19, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: What Happens If Americans Stop Trusting the System? Our fractured politics — and growing distrust by many of key institutions — suggest a burgeoning national crisis of political legitimacy.
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Nov. 9, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: America’s Fever Is Still Rising Trump exits the midterms normalized and strengthened for 2020.
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Nov. 2, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Can the Republic Strike Back? Trump’s anti-democratic impulses have shaped American public life for two years now. Election Day is a chance to shift that dynamic.
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Oct. 26, 2018
Democrats Can’t Keep Dodging Immigration As a Real Issue Trump’s lies and fear-mongering about the migrant caravan only prove the point.
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Oct. 12, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: The Danger of Trump’s Political Accomplishments The Trump administration has been more successful on its own terms than many of us want to believe. But where is that headed?
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Sept. 28, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Everyone Lost at the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings The process was broken. Justice was ill served. And democracy is worse off for all of it.
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Sept. 21, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: America, Land of Brutal Binaries The Kavanaugh and Buruma controversies show how little room there is in our national conversation for uncertainty, complexity, or restraint.
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Sept. 14, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: America Desperately Needs a Healthy Conservatism Republicans are upending institutions and norms to shield an unfit president. But true conservative values could save America — and liberalism.
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Sept. 7, 2018
We Are Trump’s Hostages There’s a fine line between trying to thwart an unhinged president and provoking him to greater extremity.
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Aug. 24, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Here’s Where Things Get Dangerous With Trump His new legal troubles are the beginning, not the end. He will defend himself, like every other mafia boss, to the bitter end.
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Aug. 17, 2018
Cleansing the Catholic Church of Its Sins After the Pennsylvania priest abuse scandal, it’s time to end the shame around homosexuality, open up the priesthood, and toss out enablers of evil.
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Aug. 10, 2018
Saudi Arabia Is a Brutal Human-Rights Violator — and Trump Appreciates That Canada is feuding with an absolute monarchy that tortures dissidents, oppresses women, and crucifies criminals — yet the president can’t pick a side.
Jeremy Corbyn, 1970s Revanchist, Is Suddenly the Face of the New New Left He epitomizes the rebirth of socialism from the failures of capitalism after the 2008 crash.
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Aug. 3, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: When Racism Is Fit to Print The left defended New York Times hire Sarah Jeong’s tweets attacking white people because in their worldview, anti-white bigotry simply can’t exist.
Andrew Sullivan: Portrait of the President As a Con Man Michael Cohen’s ongoing revelations show Trump for who he is: a world-weary operator in sleaze and outright deception. But the scam is fraying.
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July 20, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Why Trump Has Such a Soft Spot for Russia The key thing to keep in mind is that his worldview is a lot like Putin’s. It’s the simplest explanation for everything we’re seeing.
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July 13, 2018
Did Trump Just Help Stop Brexit? Trump just humiliated Theresa May, but the endorsement of a despised U.S. president might prove to be the Brexit hard-liners’ undoing.
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June 29, 2018
Anthony Kennedy and the Death of True American Conservatism His style of thinking, which values restraint and stability, is essential to liberal democracy. Its eclipse suggests danger ahead.
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June 22, 2018
If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It’s Time to Give Trump His Wall The humanitarian situation will only get worse if we don’t tackle illegal immigration — and there’s one way to get a deal under this president.
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June 15, 2018
Trump Is Making Us All Live in His Delusional Reality Show Clinging to empiricism, facts, and what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears is the central and most essential task of resistance.
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June 8, 2018
Another Glimpse of State Terror in Trump’s America The administration is separating families at the border just to send a message. That’s straight out of the totalitarian playbook.
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June 1, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Is the World Done With Liberal Democracy? Elites see the rise of “strongmen” like Trump as a detour, but Italy’s election is yet another sign that populist nationalism is here to stay.
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May 25, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs Our society is starved for compassion, gratitude, spirituality, and connection. Psychedelics can help.
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May 18, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed As Trump systematically undoes Obama’s policy achievements at home and abroad, the left is gutting his post-racial cultural vision.
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May 11, 2018
Kanye’s Comments Were Troubling. But So Was the Response. As American politics have become increasingly tribal, our willingness to disagree has been replaced with an impulse to loathe and expel.
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Apr. 27, 2018
Will There Always Be an England? Anxiety is a predictable and understandable response to the U.K.’s ethnic and cultural transformation. Ignoring it gave us Brexit (and Trump).
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Apr. 20, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Pope Francis Isn’t Catholicism’s Trump His embrace of change isn’t an existential threat to the church — rather, it may be key to the institution’s salvation.
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Apr. 13, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: A Democracy Disappears Americans should watch what is happening in Hungary with a great deal of attention — and alarm about similar trends playing out at home.
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