The right’s obsession with wokeness is a sign of weakness | Michelle Goldberg
America is enduring a wave of hysterical censorship. But I’m skeptical that anti-wokeness can be the basis for a durable mass movement.
The empty gestures of disillusioned evangelicals | Michelle Goldberg
Born-again Trump critics are mostly just worried about whether he can get elected, which is one reason he still can.
If Oregon turns red, whose fault will that be? | Michelle Goldberg
Part of the story here is about the national political environment, but it’s also about the catastrophe of homelessness in Portland.
American lies, fear and violence through a war correspondent's eyes | Michelle Goldberg
Like New Yorker journalist Luke Mogelson, I don’t know if American delusion is enough to spur such a civil war. I do know it has...
In Kansas abortion fight, minority rule vs. democracy | Michelle Goldberg
As the harrowing consequences of bans pile up, opponents of abortion will need ever greater limits on popular sovereignty in order to impose their regime.
At least one bombastic populist leader gets his comeuppance | Michelle Goldberg
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's career is ending, at least for now, the way Trump’s should have ended — with public revulsion leading his own party...
Fear, ‘furries’ and freakouts | Michelle Goldberg / Syndicated columnist
Faced with a gender landscape that they find unnerving or worse, conservatives are trying to use schools to turn the tide.
Why Ukrainians believe they can win | Michelle Goldberg / Syndicated columnist
They’ve shown older democracies what it means to fight for their own putative values, leading to an almost ecstatic global outpouring of support.
#DoneWithCovid? Not so fast | Michelle Goldberg / Syndicated columnist
The reason things aren’t normal isn’t that power-mad public health officials went back on their promises. It’s because a new coronavirus variant emerged that overwhelmed...
Our ugly politics’ toll on our psyche | Michelle Goldberg / Syndicated columnist
I’ve long thought that widespread psychological distress — wildly intensified by the pandemic — contributes to the derangement of American politics. But maybe the causality...