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Finally, I have a reason to be grateful for Trump

I’m reluctant to admit it and astonished to say it, especially since the president mocked Christine Blasey Ford in his…

October 7, 2018

America’s role in Yemen’s misery is outrageous

Kristofdu1-i-syn President Donald Trump didn’t mention it at the United Nations, but America is helping to kill, maim and starve…

September 30, 2018

Ross Douthat

Only the truth can save us now. Let’s try to find it.

Nothing about the appearances of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh changed that basic reality – not the undeniable power…

September 28, 2018

David Leonhardt

The Supreme Court is coming apart at the seams

The court is housed in a marble temple with soaring columns, and it has made some of the most consequential…

September 26, 2018

Guest Columns

America needs to hear from Christine Blasey Ford

Last Monday, when Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the Republican head of the Judiciary Committee, announced that a hearing on…

September 24, 2018

Frank Bruni

This amputee showed us how to win

This wasn’t because he was crazy but because he was all too sane and understood correctly that the dysfunctional appendages…

September 23, 2018

David Leonhardt

We’re measuring the economy completely wrong

Leonhardtdu1-i-syn The unemployment rate is lower than it was before the financial crisis began. The stock market has soared. The…

September 21, 2018

Opinion

In cruel China, faith and conscience are crimes

A portrait of Bret Stephens, columnist for the New York Times, taken in New York May 9, 2017. (Tony Cenicola/The…

September 19, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: The most contrarian college in America

Let your collegiate peers elsewhere design their own majors and frolic with Kerouac. For you, it’s Kant. You have no…

September 17, 2018

Paul Krugman

GOP leaders never really cared about deficits

Still, we didn’t experience a full replay of the Great Depression, and some have argued that the system worked, in…

September 16, 2018

Guest Columns

Iran’s gambit in Syria can still be stopped by U.S.

That gambit is the reconquest, by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies, of Idlib province, the…

September 14, 2018

Paul Krugman

Krugman: Affordable Care still works despite GOP sabotage

Does Cruz really think every blonde in Texas – and every middle-age man with remarkably little gray – is natural,…

September 12, 2018

Guest Columns

Thoughts for the very wealthy political donors

A portrait of Bret Stephens, columnist for the New York Times, taken in New York May 9, 2017. (Tony Cenicola/The…

September 11, 2018

Paul Krugman

Krugman: Justice Kavanaugh will destroy the Constitution

Once again, the outcome is all too likely to rest on pure tribalism: Unless some Republicans develop a very late…

September 11, 2018

Gail Collins

Come home, little senator, all is not forgiven

The normal way is to shrug and move on. That’s certainly understandable. You’ve got a lot on your plate right…

September 8, 2018

Ross Douthat

Douthat: Will Democrats own the Asian-American vote?

This happened in the same moment that the No. 1 movie in America is “Crazy Rich Asians,” a guilty-pleasure romantic…

September 5, 2018

Paul Krugman

Krugman: It can happen here

And as of 2018, it hardly seems like a joke at all. What Freedom House calls illiberalism is on the…

August 31, 2018

David Leonhardt

Leonhardt: Republicans should heed McCain’s last message

But McCain pursued his conservative ends through means that are depressingly rare in today’s Republican Party. McCain believed in the…

August 29, 2018

Guest Columns

Stephens: Here’s what really makes America great, governor

Bret Stephensdu1-i-syn The New York governor is in the news for saying on Wednesday that America “was never that great.”…

August 21, 2018

Tim Egan

Egan: The silent green majority is fed up – and voting

Tim Egandu1-i-syn If anger were a volcano, and you let loose all the rage felt by people over the daily…

August 18, 2018

Paul Krugman

Krugman: Nancy Pelosi is a better leader than you realize

Paul Krugmandu1-i-syn Nor are Republicans talking much about Trump’s trade war, which also remains unpopular. What, then, does the GOP…

August 16, 2018

Ross Douthat

Douthat: The white-voter strategy that actually worked

Ross Douthat<br><br>(Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn A close look at the results across the Midwest and Appalachia revealed a large…

August 14, 2018

Guest Columns

The pragmatic left, socialists included, is winning

du1-i-syn In a referendum, people in Missouri voted 2-1 to overturn an anti-union “right to work” law passed by the…

August 13, 2018

Guest Columns

Despite racist tweets, Times hire merits a chance

Stephens, New York Timesdu1-i-syn Several years earlier, Williamson had written a short tweet in which he seemed to suggest that…

August 11, 2018