Ross Douthat

He is closer than ever to a second term, but what that would bring remains unclear.

A second Biden term would be unusually dangerous for the country in a very significant way.

Abortion opponents are entirely misaligned with the Trumpist form of conservatism.

A rule of the Trump era: The lower his profile, the higher his polls.

The chief justice behaves like a kind of G.O.P. president we haven’t had.

Is nothing else so important as to continue ensuring that thousands of unborn lives can be ended in utero every year?

An admissions system that made sense as reparations has survived as something much more self-serving.

Our future peace may depend on the outcome of the conflict between Gavin Newsom’s California and Ron DeSantis’s Florida.

An improbable anti-abortion triumph yields an uncertain political future.

How an anti-Trump establishment undercuts itself.