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2/15/2019
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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2/1/2019
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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1/25/2019
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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1/11/2019
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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12/21/2018
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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12/14/2018
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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12/7/2018
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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11/30/2018
The Right’s Climate Change Shame Republicans are out of arguments, and the Earth is out of time.
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11/19/2018
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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11/9/2018
Andrew Sullivan: America’s Fever Is Still Rising Trump exits the midterms normalized and strengthened for 2020.
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11/2/2018
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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10/26/2018
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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10/12/2018
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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9/28/2018
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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9/21/2018
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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9/14/2018
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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9/7/2018
We Are Trump’s Hostages There’s a fine line between trying to thwart an unhinged president and provoking him to greater extremity.
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.
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.
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.
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8/3/2018
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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6/8/2018
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.
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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5/25/2018
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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5/18/2018
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.
5/11/2018
Kanye West and the Question of Freedom As American politics have become increasingly tribal, our willingness to disagree has been replaced with an impulse to loathe and expel.
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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4/27/2018
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).
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.
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.
Trump Isn’t Merely Tolerating Torture — He’s Celebrating It Nominating Gina Haspel to head the CIA sends a clear message to the world: From now on the U.S. won’t punish war criminals, it will reward them.
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3/30/2018
Denying Genetics Isn’t Shutting Down Racism, It’s Fueling It Suppressing scientific findings on group differences among human beings is both intellectually dishonest and politically counterproductive.
America Takes the Next Step Toward Tyranny Trump’s staff purge is the start of a dark and dangerous new phase in which no constraints on his whims will be tolerated.
Andrew Sullivan: The World Is Better Than Ever. Why Are We Miserable? The evidence of human progress is irrefutable, but it’s been accompanied by a loss of meaning that’s harder to quantify.
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3/2/2018
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Sullivan: #MeToo and the Taboo Topic of Nature The new breed of feminists — and liberals in general — are going to have to choose between reality and ideology.
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1/12/2018
Andrew Sullivan: It’s Time to Resist the Excesses of #MeToo Honor complexity. Make meaningful distinctions between offenses. Defend due process, privacy, and sex itself.
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1/5/2018
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.
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12/22/2017
Andrew Sullivan: Putin’s First Year in the White House How successful has the Kremlin’s investment in shaping America’s governance been?
Andrew Sullivan: The Assault on Mueller We’ve learned a new and sickening thing this month: GOP tribalism demands that the special counsel be aggressively smeared.
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