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J. D. Vance

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People

February 28, 2026

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MAGA’s Animal Nationalism

February 22, 2026

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Our Olympians Are Being Put in an Impossible Position

February 20, 2026

Marco Rubio’s Impressive Speech

February 17, 2026

Marco Rubio Doesn’t Get It

February 15, 2026

Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference

Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

Robert F. Worth

March 2026 Issue

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Donald Trump Can Be Stopped

January 27, 2026

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Police and ICE Agents Are on a Collision Course

Toluse Olorunnipa

January 24, 2026

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The ‘One Other Thing’ That Comes With Every Trump-Era Dinner

Alexandra Petri

January 24, 2026

A stack of plates with a tortilla, a piece of broccoli, and a piece of chicken on it

What the Greenland Crisis Teaches Europe About Trump

January 22, 2026

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‘Looksmaxxing’ Reveals the Depth of the Crisis Facing Young Men

Thomas Chatterton Williams

January 19, 2026

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America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster

January 17, 2026

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MAGA’s Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament

January 15, 2026

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What Trump’s War Against Wokeness Is Really About

David A. Graham

January 14, 2026

Civil-rights marchers arrive at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 50-mile march from Selma to protest racial discrimination in voter registration, on March 23, 1965.

Some Other Things Donald Trump Will Probably Try to Buy

Alexandra Petri

January 12, 2026

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Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter

January 12, 2026

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This Will Happen Again

Elizabeth Bruenig

January 10, 2026

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Has Anyone Checked on J. D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard?

David A. Graham

January 7, 2026

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Companies’ ‘Wrapped’ Features Keep Getting Weirder

December 23, 2025

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J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test

December 23, 2025

What J. D. Vance—And Many Others—Miss About American Anti-Semitism

December 19, 2025

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The Truth About Immigration That MAGA Doesn’t Acknowledge

December 19, 2025

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Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles

Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama

December 16, 2025

Donald Trump and Susie Wiles

The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet

November 21, 2025

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The GOP Is Realizing That Trump Won’t Be Around Forever

November 21, 2025

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A Confederacy of Toddlers

November 3, 2025

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J. D. Vance’s Bad Answer to an Anti-Semitic Question

October 31, 2025

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Why J. D. Vance Just Called an Israeli Parliament Vote ‘Stupid’ and an ‘Insult’

October 24, 2025

J.D. Vance sits in front of an American flag with small American and Israeli flags in front of him.

The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse

October 17, 2025

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Why Is Vance Defending That Racist Group Chat?

October 16, 2025

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I Don’t Want to Stop Believing in America’s Decency

November 2025 Issue

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Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

October 8, 2025

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Trump’s New Letter to New Americans

David A. Graham

September 19, 2025

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A Rogue Nation on the High Seas

September 19, 2025

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The MAGA Campaign to Suppress Dissent—Even on the Right

September 18, 2025

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Why People Fell for an Outlandish Charlie Kirk Theory

September 18, 2025

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