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Goldberg: Will the birthplace of the modern right turn blue?

Goldberg, New York Timesdu1-i-syn Until recently, the weekly demonstrations had been in front of his office, but for the summer,…

August 7, 2018

Guest Columns

How Trump won re-election in 2020

Bret Stephens, The New York Times (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)du1-i-syn This time, however, it was the Republican incumbent, not…

August 4, 2018

David Leonhardt

Leonhardt: How Trump lost his re-election in 2020

David Leonhardt, New York Timedu1-i-syn In an era of deep national anxiety – with stagnant wages, rickety health insurance and…

August 4, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Denver leads the way on Constitutional localism

du1-i-syn Those are questions we won’t be able to answer for a few years. If the Democrats nominate somebody like…

August 1, 2018

Ross Douthat

Douthat: The sick, sad truth about Cardinal McCarrick

Ross Douthat<br><br>(CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn The result was a careful analysis by the John Jay College of Criminal…

July 27, 2018

Guest Columns

Democrats are moving to the left. Don’t panic – yet

MIchelle Goldberg, New York Timesdu1-i-syn The Republican candidate in California’s 11th District, John Fitzgerald, is running on a platform of…

July 27, 2018

Thomas Friedman

A president with no shame, a party with no spine

Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times.<br><br>(CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn That is…

July 23, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Localist Revolution is likely the coming wave

du1-i-syn Localism is the belief that power should be wielded as much as possible at the neighborhood, city and state…

July 22, 2018

Guest Columns

You must resign, Mike Pompeo. Resign, John Bolton.

Bret Stephens, columnist for the New York Times. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)du1-i-syn Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state, Cyrus Vance,…

July 21, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The murder-suicide of the West

David Brooks, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn It may seem melodramatic, but that passage comes to mind when I think of…

July 18, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: We may be able to get this man off death row

du1-i-syn That’s my view, and now after 35 years, the wheels of justice in California may finally be creaking into…

July 17, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The disturbing death of racial progress

du1-i-syn I was going to cite evidence showing a steady decline in racist attitudes. I was going to point to…

July 15, 2018

Tim Egan

Egan: Down and out in San Francisco on $117,000 a year

Timothy Egan, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn Beyond laughable because such stories pass like a Bay Area breeze in the city…

July 12, 2018

David Brooks

Understanding Kavanaugh’s conservative roots

du1-i-syn Kavanaugh is the product of a community. He is the product of a conservative legal infrastructure that develops ideas,…

July 10, 2018

Frank Bruni

The moist mystery of Scott Pruitt’s resignation

Frank Bruni, New York Timesdu1-i-syn Why quit when you’ve already endured all the mortification that he has? Why not crawl,…

July 8, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: The sick cosmic joke of Trump’s power

Frank Bruni, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn How much power will a president with such tenuous claim to it get to…

July 5, 2018

Guest Columns

Goldberg: The millennial socialists are coming

Michelle Goldberg, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn Elizabeth Fiedler, 37, announced her run three months after giving birth to her second…

July 3, 2018

Guest Columns

Blow: Immigration policies reflect white minority anxiety

Charles Blow, New York Timesdu1-i-syn He was not particularly sympathetic to these families’ plights, instead choosing to focus on the…

June 26, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Amnesty thugs rise in immigration debate

Brooksdu1-i-syn Franco was an unauthorized immigrant who had been working in this country for more than a decade. His wife,…

June 25, 2018

Ross Douthat

Douthat: Choose the lesser cruelty on immigration

Ross Douthat, New York Timesdu1-i-syn The true rationale has been clear from the beginning. Yes, it’s partially a byproduct of…

June 18, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Personalism is the philosophy we need

Brooksdu1-i-syn Someone might be a Latina lesbian who loves the NRA or a socialist Mormon cowboy from Arizona. Moreover, most…

June 18, 2018

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Becoming Ugly America will make us less secure

Thomas Friedman, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn God forbid we become the United States of Trump. That would threaten our future…

June 13, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Trump trades trust, rules for world of wolves

Brooksdu1-i-syn The failure of that summit wasn’t fundamentally about trade, or even the Western alliance. It was about the steady…

June 13, 2018

David Leonhardt

Leonhardt: Trump tries to destroy Western alliance

David Leonhardt, New York Timesdu1-i-syn President Donald Trump is trying to destroy that alliance. Is that how he thinks about…

June 12, 2018