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Trump Has Put an End to an Era. The Future Is Up for Grabs.

Opinion Ross Douthat Credit... Jamie Chung for The New York Times Supported by By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Kamala Harris lost the...

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How Democrats Made It Easy for Trump

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist For the first time since the night of Nov. 4, 2008, a presidential...

08.11.2024 10

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If the Choice in 2024 Were So Obvious, the Election Wouldn’t Be So Close

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist There are many styles of Harris-Walz signage in my lovely university-town...

02.11.2024 50

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Our Robot Stories Haven’t Prepared Us for A.I.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week, my newsroom colleague Kevin Roose chronicled the...

26.10.2024 10

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For Trump and Harris, the Media Future Is Now

Who are these people, and why are they interviewing presidential candidates?

12.10.2024 10

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What Do Liberals Believe About Late-Term Abortion?

How cognitive dissonance shapes both sides of the abortion debate.

12.10.2024 10

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America Needs a President

The sidelining of the White House in global crisis spots is a big red flag.

05.10.2024 10

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The Most Important Question Kamala Harris Hasn’t Answered

What would a President Harris do about the war in Ukraine?

29.09.2024 8000

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The Possible Meanings of a Masculine Religious Revival

28.09.2024 70

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The 2024 Election Is a Retreat From Ideology

Whatever the Trump-Harris election season is delivering, it isn’t a grand ideological debate.

21.09.2024 30

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Sympathy for the Undecided Voter

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Since the populist surge that gave us Brexit and the rise of Donald...

14.09.2024 30

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Why I Still Think Trump Will Win

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week my colleague David Brooks and I offered dispatches from two...

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Two Christian Conservatives Debate the Merits of Voting for Kamala Harris

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat goes head-to-head with his fellow columnist David French over how to move Republicans past Trump. Hosted by ...

06.09.2024 10

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How Harris Wins (and Trump and the Republicans Blow It)

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist It’s Nov. 6, 2024, the morning after Election Day. To understand Kamala...

04.09.2024 10

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Why We Don’t Build Beautifully

How ideas and not economics changed the way our cities look.

30.08.2024 10

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Masculinity Is on the Ballot

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Amid all the joy and positivity and the big, beautiful polling surges for...

17.08.2024 50

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There Is Still a Biden Scandal

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist One of the Biden White House’s greatest achievements, from the...

10.08.2024 30

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How to Save Disney

Three ways to revitalize the House of Mouse.

09.08.2024 4

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Kamala Harris and the Audacity of Desperation

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Across Donald Trump’s presidency, the American establishment achieved...

28.07.2024 70

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How Trump Sabotaged His Own Apotheosis

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa.,...

20.07.2024 70

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Donald Trump, Man of Destiny

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Every act of political violence yields instant reactions that can’t...

16.07.2024 30

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From Moderate to Caesarist: 4 Scenarios for Trump 2.0

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Donald Trump will arrive at the 2024 Republican convention — his...

13.07.2024 30

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Does America Need a President?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist As the belief that Joe Biden is fully equipped to be president...

05.07.2024 7

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Forget Defeating Trump. Biden Needs to Spare the Country Four More Years of Himself.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Now that the first general-election debate of 2024 has removed any...

29.06.2024 20

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Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Be Doomers

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Along with Donald Trump, a big winner in Thursday night’s...

29.06.2024 10

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The Biden and Trump Weaknesses That Don’t Get Enough Attention

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Donald Trump and Joe Biden come into Thursday’s presidential debate...

22.06.2024 10

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What J.D. Vance Believes

Opinion Ross Douthat Credit... Jeff Dean/Associated Press Supported by By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In 2016, J.D. Vance’s...

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Harrison Butker’s Very American Traditionalism

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Across almost two weeks of controversy over the commencement speech...

25.05.2024 50

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Why the Manhattan Trial Is Probably Helping Trump

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Throughout the Republican primary campaign (such as it was), it was...

18.05.2024 40

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Is There a Post-Religious Right?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his...

11.05.2024 40

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What Medical Stories Do We Trust?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A...

04.05.2024 60

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Biden Is Not Winning. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like It Is.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In February, there was a flurry of discussion about whether Joe...

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What Students Read Before They Protest

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that...

28.04.2024 100

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The Real Path to an American Civil War

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week Donald Trump was put on trial by a liberal prosecutor on what...

17.04.2024 40

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Why Can’t Biden Triangulate Like Trump?

There’s a difference between being aware of your base and being its prisoner.

13.04.2024 10

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Can the Left Be Happy?

Comforted by neither God nor history, and hoping vaguely that therapy can take their place.

06.04.2024 10

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The Birth Dearth and the Smartphone Age

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist My newsroom colleagues Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani have a...

06.04.2024 20

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It’s Easter 2050. Here’s What American Religion Looks Like.

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This...

30.03.2024 70

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The Great Tension Inside the Trump G.O.P.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist This week the populist think tank American Compass released polling...

29.03.2024 10

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Has Liberalism Found a Coherent Sexual Ethics?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in...

27.03.2024 30

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The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist If you believe President Biden’s aides and allies, he intends to...

23.03.2024 30

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From ‘Dune’ to Decadence (and Back)

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist There are three great novels that I read as an early adolescent that I...

09.03.2024 50

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After Super Tuesday, Trump Is Stronger Than He’s Ever Been

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist About 18 months ago, Donald Trump suffered one of his worst political...

06.03.2024 40

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Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Amid all the talk about the potential influence of Christian...

02.03.2024 50

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Should We Fear the Woke A.I.?

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Imagine a short story from the golden age of science fiction, something...

24.02.2024 40

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Where Did the ‘True Detective’ Magic Go? To Another Show.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist If I were asked to condense the entire era of prestige television —...

24.02.2024 30

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What It Means to Choose Between Ukraine and Taiwan

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Over the weekend Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio went to the Munich Security...

21.02.2024 20

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The Best Case for Ukraine Aid

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The first year of the war in Ukraine seemed to vindicate Russia hawks....

17.02.2024 20

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What the News and the Pews Have in Common

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the...

17.02.2024 30

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Neither Trumpism Nor Bidenomics Has an Answer to Inflation

Advertisement Supported by Ross Douthat By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The flare of inflation reported this week, the unwelcome guest still...

14.02.2024 10

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