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Andrew Sullivan
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May 15, 2020
Andrew Sullivan: Blogging a 17th-Century Pandemic Rediscovering an inspiring and profoundly human perspective on a plague that makes our own circumstances seem mild.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Mar. 13, 2020
Andrew Sullivan: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era For years now in America, there has been a surreal sense of postponed consequences. No more.
By Andrew Sullivan
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July 26, 2019
The American System Is Already Failing Trump is attacking both the rule of law and our constitutional norms – and the Mueller hearings underscored that he’ll largely go unchallenged.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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).
By Andrew Sullivan
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Mar. 2, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Is This the Beginning of Trump’s End? Trump maintains a cultish following, but with a new wave of scandal, his incompetence and boundless corruption may start to seep through.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Feb. 23, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: How Do We Cope With Trump? The antidote to our toxic political and cultural climate: Look to figures who found themselves in similar circumstances yet kept their heads.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Feb. 9, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: We All Live on Campus Now When universities embrace an identity-based “social justice” movement, it puts the broader culture in danger of drifting away from liberal democracy.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Feb. 2, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: When Two Tribes Go to War In a tribalized society, there’s no room for an independent inquiry — which is why Republicans are doing all they can to undermine Robert Mueller.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Jan. 26, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: The Gay Rights Movement Is Undoing Its Best Work The rise of Trump is the most obvious answer, but the profound shift in the tone and substance of gay-rights advocacy is having an impact, too.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Jan. 5, 2018
Trump’s First Year Has Been a Disaster. Here’s Why I Have Hope. 2017 gave us reason to think that might not leave America irrevocably damaged — but we still have a long way to go.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Dec. 1, 2017
By Andrew Sullivan
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Oct. 13, 2017
Andrew Sullivan: Trump’s Mindless Nihilism America is seeing how dangerous and bankrupt political reactionaries’ politics are. In fact, so is Britain.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Aug. 11, 2017
Trump’s Reckless Nuclear Bluffing He’s undermining American national security. Will any Republicans even try to stop him?
By Andrew Sullivan
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July 28, 2017
A Week of Reckoning Consider the violence the president has done to the structures of American democracy in just the past seven days.
By Andrew Sullivan
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July 21, 2017
The Triumph of Obama’s Long Game The failure of the Republican health-care overhaul is a testament to Obama’s skills, vision, and tenacity.
By Andrew Sullivan
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July 14, 2017
If Republicans Love Their Country, When Will They Show It? Even if Trump hasn’t committed a crime, this is the scenario impeachment was created for.
By Andrew Sullivan
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July 7, 2017
Why Republicans Let Trump Take Over Their Party He made himself the only alternative to things conservative voters tend to hate.
By Andrew Sullivan
The Pope’s Pedophile? Cardinal Pell and the risk Francis took.
By Andrew Sullivan
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June 23, 2017
The Perverse Presidency of Donald Trump His singular policy aim appears to be overturning anything Obama accomplished.
By Andrew Sullivan
Trump’s Derangement Deepens Asking him to subject himself to oversight comes as easily to him as it would to Putin or Duterte or Mugabe.
By Andrew Sullivan
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June 9, 2017
The Fall of Theresa May — and Donald Trump? The U.K. election shows the populism we’ve seen bolster the right is a fickle beast.
By Andrew Sullivan
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June 2, 2017
Can the West Survive Trump? He’s already done a lot of damage to the postwar order. It might be irreparable.
By Andrew Sullivan
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May 26, 2017
The Pope and the Pagan Trump’s policy differences with Pope Francis are just symptoms of a far deeper chasm.
By Andrew Sullivan
The Cult and the Cover-Up Can Trump survive indefinitely?
By Andrew Sullivan
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May 12, 2017
Trump Just Incriminated Himself If this is swept under the rug, we take one giant step toward the authoritarianism Trump has always threatened.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Apr. 14, 2017
Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton? Rather than blaming her for running an abysmal campaign and putting Trump in the White House.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Apr. 7, 2017
The Trump Doctrine: Unpredictability and Incoherence With little notice, the candidate who promised to avoid military conflict in the Middle East has become an interventionist.
By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan Talks Liberal Intolerance on Real Time He also explained why he wasn’t impressed with the current makeup of the Democratic Party.
By Chas Danner
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Mar. 10, 2017
Is Intersectionality a Religion? It’s the latest academic craze, and in practice it veers far from principles of liberal democracy.
By Andrew Sullivan
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Mar. 3, 2017
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Feb. 10, 2017
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