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Charles Blow: Return of ‘Law and Order’ for blacks and hippies

This was his response to the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the country. I don’t think it was an action…

July 2, 2020

David Brooks: How moderates have failed African Americans

This formula has not worked for many African Americans. Over generations, great gains have been made in improving Black students’…

June 26, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: The intellectual cowardice of my New York Times

It is a violation of the principles that are supposed to sustain the profession, particularly our obligation to give readers…

June 21, 2020

Guest Columns

Michelle Goldberg: Surprise! Justice on LGBT rights from Gorsuch

She remembers the horrors of the last 3½ years, but no one else seems to. A crushing weight lifts as…

June 20, 2020

Op-Ed

Gail Collins: Tell Trump we’re not questioning his manhood?

“If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time,” he told America’s governors. “They’re going to run all over you. You’ll…

June 6, 2020

Guest Columns

Nicholas Kristof: Let’s remember this virus is still a big mystery

Some of that epidemiological humility should seep into public discourse. Some conservatives scoffed that the coronavirus was like the flu,…

June 3, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: ‘You won’t live to see your next birthday’

He insists, and she relents. “You will not live to see your next birthday,” she says. New Year’s Eve, 1944.…

May 25, 2020

Guest Columns

David Brooks: We need a program of national service right now

This is a passionate, idealistic generation that sees the emergency, wants to serve those around them and groans to live…

May 17, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Biden, Reade and the presumption of innocence

Above all: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Let’s not start with the Brett Kavanaugh precedent. Or…

May 6, 2020

Guest Columns

David Brooks: Our age of coddling is over, and good riddance

As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” this is the…

April 26, 2020

Guest Columns

Frank Bruni: A politician takes a sledgehammer to his own ego

He quickly climbed the rungs of power, became the lieutenant governor of the state of Washington at 35 and had…

April 18, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: A bittersweet look back at the pandemic from 2025

When COVID-19 first emerged as a health crisis in China five years ago, observers noted that authoritarian regimes – with…

April 10, 2020

David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt: How Trump is making the coronavirus worse now

Knudsen told the executives that U.S. military officials surveying the Nazis’ bombing of England had concluded that the country with…

March 28, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: No, not Bernie Sanders; never Bernie Sanders

Now, I have to decide if I’d support Bernie Sanders over Trump. We all start from personal experience. I covered…

March 5, 2020

Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni: Mayor Pete flew sky high – and did the grown-up thing

He looked at what happened in South Carolina on Saturday. He looked at what was likely to happen in the…

March 2, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: Why Bernie Sanders will probably win the nomination

In 2016, Donald Trump told a successful myth: The coastal elites are greedy, stupid people who have mismanaged the country,…

February 27, 2020

Guest Columns

Farhad Manjoo: Is Amazon’s store just too good to be broken up?

The company’s online store has always been convenient and plentiful, but in the last year, Amazon significantly increased the speed…

February 22, 2020

Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat: The Bloomberg temptation – and the peril

This was especially true in the days when Bloomberg would advertise his interest in a third-party candidacy. Third parties are…

February 21, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: It was education that made Scandinavia great

Progressives say it’s because they have generous welfare states. Some libertarians point out that these countries score high on nearly…

February 21, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: How Donald Trump will win again in November

First, President Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are rising. When the impeachment inquiry got rolling in October his Gallup approval…

February 12, 2020

Guest Columns

Farhad Manjoo: Stop pretending the single-family home is good

By the time I got to middle school, my immigrant family was able to afford a house with a yard…

February 6, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Anyone but Trump? Let’s rethink that, shall we?

Ergo, every American who feels this way has a moral obligation to vote for whomever winds up being the Democratic…

January 29, 2020

David Brooks

David Brooks: Behold the Democrats committing political suicide

There is Donald Trump’s culture-war Theyism: The coastal cultural elites hate genuine Americans, undermining our values and opening our borders.…

January 24, 2020

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Of course Sanders could be the next president

When it comes to pundits and politics this year, I’d revise the great physicist’s admonition as follows: “The first principle…

January 22, 2020