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Bruni: Chris Christie’s tutorial in hubris

Frank Brunidu1-i-syn Beware the politician who doesn’t give a damn for decorum. What he markets as irreverence can be something…

July 6, 2017

From our Congressman

Brooks: Why did many working class voters support Trump?

David Brooksdu1-i-syn And yet over this time, Donald Trump’s approval rating has remained unchanged, at 40 percent. During this period,…

July 5, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Good news, despite what you’ve heard

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn To explain why, let me start with a story. I’m on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university…

July 4, 2017

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Trump is China’s Chump

Thomas L. Friedman (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn These investors, trade experts and government officials are still stunned by an…

June 29, 2017

From our Congressman

Brooks: The GOP has a vision for government, but not America

David Brooksdu1-i-syn Conservative intellectuals were slow to understanding the seriousness of this structural problem, but over the past few years…

June 28, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Opioid crisis calls for national-level response

du1-i-syn For more than 100 years, death rates have been dropping for Americans, but now, because of opioids, death rates…

June 26, 2017

From our Congressman

Bruni: For more and more Americans, I’m okay and you’re evil

Frank Brunidu1-i-syn To be seen in a thicket of hashtags and heard above the din, people screech. Passion and provocation…

June 21, 2017

From our Congressman

Brooks: Let’s not get carried away

David Brooksdu1-i-syn Now I confess I couldn’t follow all the actual allegations made in those essays. They were six jungles…

June 21, 2017

Ross Douthat

Douthat: This era is crazy, but not as crazy as we may think

Ross Douthat (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn He hated Donald Trump, he liked Bernie Sanders, he wanted higher taxes on…

June 20, 2017

From our Congressman

Bruni: The mortification of Jeff Sessions

du1-i-syn But as I watched him, a flustered Gump in the headlights, I saw a broader story, a dark parable…

June 15, 2017

From our Congressman

Leonhardt: The halfhearted oppostion to the GOP’s health care bill

du1-i-syn I realize that sounds harsh. These opponents generally have good intentions. But they haven’t been very effective so far,…

June 14, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Dear Paul Ryan, Listen to Planned Parenthood patients

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn As you work with President Trump to cut off federal funds for Planned Parenthood, Mr. Ryan, I consulted…

June 13, 2017

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: With China’s technological ascent, Trump is right to press on the trade imbalance

Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times. (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn Yes, some things are true even if…

June 8, 2017

From our Congressman

Brooks: Selfishness makes enemies and destroys empires

David Brooksdu1-i-syn That sentence is the epitome of the Trump project. It asserts that selfishness is the sole driver of…

June 7, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: What monkeys can teach us about fairness

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in sight of a second — an even better deal:…

June 6, 2017

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Trump’s America is the United American Emirate

Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995…Previously,…

June 1, 2017

From our Congressman

Brooks: Jared Kushner and the knotty politics of clan

David Brooksdu1-i-syn The Kushner family drama begins in the Holocaust. In 1941, Rae Kushner was living in Belarus and was…

June 1, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Patriotic reminders for our Republican leadership

du1-i-syn As McConnell warned, for example: “The president did not value the sacred oath. He was interested in saving his…

May 30, 2017

From our Congressman

Egan: Old-fashioned war is diplomacy by other means

Egandu1-i-syn At the same time, French infantrymen began to mutiny after 200,000 of their young men fell – dead, wounded…

May 29, 2017

Thomas Friedman

A road trip through rusting and rising America

Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, became the paper’s foreign-affairs columnist in 1995…Previously,…

May 25, 2017

Ross Douthat

Douthat: Trump is not a populist, rather an establishment sellout

Ross Douthat (CREDIT: Josh Haner/The New York Times)du1-i-syn This is how the debate over Donald Trump’s mounting difficulties is being framed…

May 24, 2017

Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Donald Trump versus women’s health

Nicholas Kristofdu1-i-syn Yes, the phrase “war on women” may seem hyperbolic, but it also reflects the devastating impact of Trump’s…

May 23, 2017

From our Congressman

Egan: To Trump, the West is a separate, foreign country

Timothy Egan. Columnist, The New York Timesdu1-i-syn That’s not surprising, given Trump’s nativist biases and his need to curl up…

May 20, 2017

Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Republican party has lost its moral compass

Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times, became the paper’s foreign-affairs columnist in 1995.…

May 18, 2017