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Kristof: Choosing animals over people

The only risk: They are so heedless and unafraid of people that they may tumble almost into your lap —…

April 10, 2018

Friedman: Is Putin a CIA agent?

Thomas L. Friedman (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times) Why? Because Putin has undertaken so many actions in recent years that…

April 5, 2018

From our Congressman

Brooks: Who is the most influential human being on earth?

David Brooks Putin has established himself as one pole in the great global debate of the era, the debate between…

April 4, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Who is the most influential human being on earth?

David Brooks Putin has established himself as one pole in the great global debate of the era, the debate between…

April 4, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: The rise of God’s spokeswomen

Nicholas Kristof Or, more precisely, the men who claim to speak on behalf of God have routinely disparaged women or…

April 3, 2018

Frank Bruni

Bruni: Cynthia Nixon and the age of inexperience

Frank Bruni You would choose a pilot who had flown 999 flights over one with nine, and you would want…

March 29, 2018

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Facebook’s problem – and ours

Thomas L. Friedman (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times) I could only look at that deeply unsettling story and say: Welcome…

March 29, 2018

David Brooks

Brooks: Bridging the gap between what binds and disappoints us

David Brooks The crowd was good-hearted, gracious, diverse and welcoming. At a time when trust in democracy is waning, everybody…

March 28, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Conflict is more profitable than peace

Nicholas Kristof Bruno, severely ill with malaria, barely responded to his mother’s caresses. Here in a country torn apart by…

March 27, 2018

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Get me back my Turkey

Thomas L. FriedmanCREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times A few weeks later the Bedouin chief’s camel was stolen. His sons…

March 22, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: A parable of self-destruction

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn Who built them? How did they get there? And who fitted some of them with giant red stone…

March 20, 2018

From our Congressman

Brooks: With a rising populist wave, what comes after Trump?

David Brooksdu1-i-syn The best indicator we have so far is the example of Italy since the reign of Silvio Berlusconi.…

March 14, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump’s North Korea gamble

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn Yet President Donald Trump’s decision to meet Kim Jong Un strikes me as a dangerous gamble and a…

March 13, 2018

From our Congressman

Brooks: How the left wins the culture war

David Brooksdu1-i-syn I started this latest round of the debate with the presumption that supporters of moderate gun restrictions are…

March 9, 2018

From our Congressman

Douthat: Power to the parents

Ross Douthatdu1-i-syn My support peaked when I was that age myself; I thought that lowering the voting age was literally…

March 8, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: I saw a genocide in slow motion

du1-i-syn Her newborn twins had died the previous day, and she squatted in her grass-roof hut, shattered by pain and…

March 6, 2018

From our Congressman

Bruni: Am I going blind?

Frank Brunidu1-i-syn This was about four months ago, though it feels like an eternity. So much has happened since. I…

March 1, 2018

From our Congressman

A generation emerging from the wreckage looks forward

Davis Brooks, New York Timesdu1-i-syn Most of the students I’ve met with are at super-competitive schools – Harvard, Yale, the…

February 28, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: What poisons are in your body?

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn Almost a decade ago, I was shaken by my reporting on a class of toxic chemicals called endocrine…

February 27, 2018

Thomas Friedman

Freidman: Get out of Facebook and into the NRA’s face

Thomas L. Friedman (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn Cameron, God bless you for that sentiment. But just one piece of…

February 22, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: You’re wrong! I’m right!

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn In one America, a mentally unstable president selected partly by Russia lies daily and stirs up bigotry that…

February 20, 2018

From our Congressman

Douthat: Let’s ban porn

Ross Douthat (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn For anyone who grew up with the ideals of post-sexual revolution liberalism, there…

February 15, 2018

From our Congressman

Brooks: The end of the two-party system

David Brooksdu1-i-syn I covered nothing but good news: the reunification of Germany, the liberation of Central Europe, the fall of…

February 14, 2018

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: President Trump, how is this man a danger?

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn What does Trump’s crackdown look like in real life? In Lawrence, Kansas, the other day, immigration agents handcuffed…

February 13, 2018