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Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists. By Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum See more of our coverage in ...

Ross Douthat isn’t afraid to try new things, and it’s led to a somewhat unusual trajectory in his journalism career. In his 20s, he became a blogger at The Atlantic, which realized it needed to expand ...