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For Trump, it could be the presidency or prison

That’s no longer just my opinion, or that of Democratic activists. It is the finding of Trump’s own Justice Department.…

December 13, 2018

Guest Columns

What would a presidency without humor look like?

The sharpest one, I thought, came in Alan Simpson’s splendid eulogy at Washington National Cathedral. “He never lost his sense…

December 11, 2018

Tim Egan

Bots and artificial intelligence are taking over now

The plane is a new machine, Boeing’s sleek and intelligent 737 Max 8, fitted with an advanced electronic brain. After…

December 10, 2018

Guest Columns

The real China challenge: managing its decline

Its economy, the magazine suggested, would soon overtake that of France or the U.K. as the world’s fifth largest. São…

December 7, 2018

Frank Bruni

H.W. Bush and the maddening wars over his legacy

He praised George H.W. Bush. The former president had just died. In Behar’s view, it was a moment to recognize…

December 6, 2018

Frank Bruni

Black, female, Republican – and gone, gone, gone

It’s the story of her party, really. Of what it once realized about the future and how it slouched backward…

December 2, 2018

David Brooks

Liberal parents, radical children – once again

The answer – whether the person leads a college, a nonprofit, a tech company, an entertainment company or a publication…

November 30, 2018

David Leonhardt

Who wants to play Monopoly? America, do you?

The colonists were not responding to a tax increase. They were responding to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted…

November 27, 2018

David Brooks

The Establishment will save the working classes

We could spend them as we’ve spent the last two: Express daily contempt from within the safety of our political…

November 26, 2018

David Leonhardt

Polis, Ocasio-Cortez are wrong on student debt

But they can use their House majority to do more than investigate Trump. Democrats can hold hearings and pass bills…

November 21, 2018

David Brooks

What happened to conservatism? It degenerated.

She’s recalling a party she threw on Dec. 31, 1999, at her home in Poland. Many of the hundred-odd guests…

November 19, 2018

Frank Bruni

Can we get Al Gore to run for the Dems in 2020?

They make Al Gore glitter. It’s almost impossible not to be thinking of Gore now, with the words “Florida” and…

November 17, 2018

David Brooks

Is the struggle to stay human still relevant today?

Set in the trenches near the end of the war, it’s a movie about a man who tries to maintain…

November 15, 2018

Guest Columns

The Resistance couldn’t convert votes into seats

In a word: meh. Are you interested in seeing Donald Trump voted out of office in two years? I hope…

November 12, 2018

Gail Collins

Trump is a happy loser; ’bye, Otter!

Do you think Donald Trump was trying to change the subject? Everybody knew he’d get a new attorney general after…

November 11, 2018

Guest Columns

Trump, under scrutiny and even more unleashed

I’m not sure I would call Tuesday’s election results the blue wave many expected, but liberals absolutely made progress –…

November 10, 2018

Ross Douthat

The midterms deliver a huge American stalemate

A good night for Republicans in the Senate. An excellent night for Democrats in the House. The Trumpian Upper Midwest…

November 8, 2018

Guest Columns

Liberalism pierces its tongue again and again

“If it were a person,” he added, “it would pierce its tongue.” I thought of that line while reading a…

October 21, 2018

David Brooks

America is having a rich, very white civil war

More in Common has just completed a large such typology. It’s one of the best I’ve seen because it understands…

October 20, 2018

Ross Douthat

Elizabeth Warren plays Trump’s game – and loses

So when she released a video featuring her Oklahoman roots and answering Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” gibe with a DNA test…

October 18, 2018

David Brooks

Feminism – that’s right – might save us after all

For thousands of years, social thinking has been dominated by men who saw life as a place where warriors competed…

October 15, 2018

Guest Columns

Colombia has lessons on retaking extreme center

“When you see a populist,” Duque answered, “you always see a demagogue. Societies no longer need demagogues; they need pedagogues…

October 14, 2018

Ross Douthat

Lucifer seems to have a lot to work with in Church

As the Trump era moved toward its Kavanaugh crescendo, the Catholic drama also escalated, with the church’s doctrinal conflict and…

October 11, 2018

$Kavanaugh fracas shows how ugly we’ve become$

David Brooks

Kavanaugh fracas shows how ugly we’ve become

The first test case for our movement was the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It’s clear that…

October 9, 2018