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David Brooks

Using marital advice to fix our political divide

du1-i-syn So I thought it might be a good idea to consult some marriage books for lessons on how to…

June 8, 2018

Guest Columns

Blow: Trump leading Republican Party to ruin

Blowdu1-i-syn Among most of the people who we used to call Republicans, among the people who like Trump or at…

June 5, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The strange failure of the educated elite

Brooksdu1-i-syn Then we smashed all that. We replaced a system based on birth with a fairer system based on talent.…

June 1, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: Artistotle’s wrongful death as college majors shift

I’m talking about college majors, and talk about college majors is loud and contentious these days. There’s concern about whether…

May 29, 2018

Guest Columns

Blow: Time to change political tactics on gun control

Blowdu1-i-syn We had yet another one last week in Santa Fe, Texas, where a student killed 10 people and injured…

May 23, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Death row case reveals broken justice system

Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times. Reach him at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/NickKristof or c/o The New…

May 22, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Gaza violence shows us how extremism corrupts

I see the situation through the “extremism corrupts everybody” narrative. My narrative starts with the idea that the creation of…

May 21, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Trump’s lizard wisdom plays out in thug world

Brooksdu1-i-syn Operating in the New York construction world meant dealing with S&A Concrete, co-owned by “Fat Tony” Salerno of the…

May 16, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump vandalizes the Iran deal

Trump is abandoning the Iran deal, with nothing to replace it, even though his own secretary of state and chairman…

May 15, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: Renounce Pelosi, ignore Trump … and win?

Like Lamb, he’s a veteran, he’s young and he’s brand new to politics. And like Lamb, he has exceeded expectations…

May 15, 2018

Gail Collins

Collins: Sex, Trump and Planned Parenthood’s Richards

Gail Collins (CREDIT: Earl Wilson/The New York Times)du1-i-syn It was after the election, and “Javanka” wanted to share their great idea…

May 14, 2018

David Leonhardt

Leonhardt: Let’s hope Barnes & Noble can survive

David Leonhardtdu1-i-syn You feel it when you walk into one of the chain’s stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games,…

May 9, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Our addiction to Trump

Nicholas Kristof News organizations, especially cable television channels, feed off Trump — like oxpeckers on a rhino’s back — for…

May 8, 2018

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: The U.S. and China are finally having it out

Thomas L. Friedman (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times) Five days of meetings in Beijing with Chinese, U.S. and European government…

May 3, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The place that assumes beauty

David Brooks Thirty-five years ago, the two Figini brothers, Erasmo and Innocente, were living in Como with their wives, Serena…

May 3, 2018

Gail Collins

Collins: Yipes! The canned the chaplain

Gail Collins (CREDIT: Earl Wilson/The New York Times) We do not normally spend a heck of a lot of time dwelling…

April 30, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump treats immigrant kids cruelly because he can

Nicholas Kristof Today President Donald Trump is again slamming the door on desperate refugees. Indeed, the Trump administration is going…

April 27, 2018

Maureen Dowd

Dowd: Fake pearls, real heart and a 100 ways to shine light

Maureen Dowd (CREDIT: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) When Congressman Dan Rostenkowski gave the first lady a shampoo…

April 26, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: The Bush twins want to set the record straight

Frank Bruni Ring a bell? Low-Energy Jeb was Donald Trump’s taunting nickname for her uncle during the 2016 campaign. I…

April 24, 2018

Paul Krugman

Krugman: The price of blocking technical progress on renewables is high

Paul Krugman He did, however, come up with one classic line about the disappointments of modern technology: “We wanted flying…

April 20, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The blindness of social wealth

His sons pleaded with anybody they could find to make a loan and save the family ranch. No one would…

April 19, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: The nation will pay if Trump fires Mueller

Nicholas Kristof Trump is said to be near a “meltdown” in his fury at what he describes as “an attack…

April 17, 2018

Ross Douthat

Douthat: Why not Mike Pence?

Ross Douthat (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times) The subject of their agita, not entirely surprisingly, was the Stormy Daniels affair,…

April 12, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: The failures of anti-Trumpism

David Brooks The point of this work is to expose the harm President Donald Trump is doing, weaken his support…

April 11, 2018