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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?
By Andrew Sullivan
interesting times
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
interesting times
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
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
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
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
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
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
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
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
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
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
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
Andrew Sullivan: Putin’s First Year in the White House How successful has the Kremlin’s investment in shaping America’s governance been?
By Andrew Sullivan
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.
By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: The Danger of Knowing You’re on the ‘Right Side of History’ The bipartisan sexual-abuse reckoning is an opportunity to tear down tribalism as well.
By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: Hope Arrives in Virginia This week’s elections showed that America is deeply polarized — but now Democrats have the edge.
By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: The Issue That Could Lose the Next Election for Democrats The left increasingly sees any distinction between citizens and noncitizens as racist — and that will only benefit President Trump.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
Kaepernick’s Message Is Getting Lost — Along With the Facts on Race and Policing We must honor the spirit of the protests without losing sight of the underlying statistical reality.
By Andrew Sullivan
It’s Win-Win When Trump and the Democrats Work Together But the GOP health bill threatens to destroy their fledgling relationship.
By Andrew Sullivan
Yes, I’m Dependent on Weed And perfectly happy to be so.
By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: The Religious Right’s Suicidal Gay Obsession Evangelical leaders are destroying their own movement by denying the humanity of LGBT people.
By Andrew Sullivan
Trump Flaunts His Indifference to the Rule of Law The Arpaio pardon is the act of an instinctual despot.
By Andrew Sullivan
The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free Speech Boston’s mayor, police force, and protesters combined to shut down an event that was open to a wide range of opinions.
By Andrew Sullivan
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