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David Brooks: Impeach Trump – and then move on

The evidence against Trump is overwhelming. The Ukraine quid pro quo wasn’t just a single call. It was a multiprong…

November 6, 2019

David Leonhardt: The climate is more important than health care

The next Democratic president should choose a different priority. It’s still true that too many Americans suffer from inadequate or…

November 4, 2019

Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat: Most superhero movies are not fit for mature minds

We often talk about unexpected political controversies in terms of their relationship to an established order, an existing regime. The…

November 3, 2019

Guest Columns

Farhad Manjoo: Why doesn’t Mark Zuckerberg just retire?

But if I’m Mark Zuckerberg, I probably have a whole go trunk ready, and I’m consulting with Alfred and Jeeves…

November 3, 2019

Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Elizabeth Warren is trying hard to lose your vote

The result: lower oil prices for American consumers, less dependence on petro-despots, a dramatic shift from coal to natural gas…

November 1, 2019

David Brooks

David Brooks: Tipping is broken and immoral

Moreover, tipping nurtures humane relationships. It encourages servers to try to establish social connection through direct eye contact and a…

October 31, 2019

David Brooks

David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren is a bad choice … that we’d have to make

The first thing we could do, of course, is pray for a miracle. Maybe the Democrats will nominate Biden, Buttigieg,…

October 23, 2019

Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof: China’s Xi Jinping is coming for Winne-the-Pooh

Will we reluctantly hand over Pooh Bear? “Really sorry about this, Winnie, but China’s an important market!” Winnie-the-Pooh has been…

October 18, 2019

Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni: The agonizing imperfection of Mayor Pete Buttigieg

I’d summon someone relatively young. Elections are usually about the future, and the last two Democrats to ascend to the…

October 16, 2019

Guest Columns

David Brooks: Why some Trump voters are holding on (for dear life)

URBAN GUY: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president. Trump clearly…

October 8, 2019

Michael Gerson

Michael Gerson: The impeachment process is inevitable

This is effectively what happened when the White House released the readout from Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s…

October 4, 2019

Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat: Republicans, your exit is approaching

Ask that same staffer what happens if Trump is reelected, and you’ll get a heavy sigh, a thousand-yard stare and…

October 2, 2019

Gail Collins

Gail Collins: Is Rudy Giuliani just the worst best friend?

“I think it’s incredible the way he’s done,” the president said Wednesday about his personal lawyer. We don’t know precisely…

September 30, 2019

Guest Columns

Frank Bruni: Why impeaching Trump is necessary – and should scare you

That’s not to say that it’s the wrong move. Arguably, it’s the only move, at least in terms of fidelity…

September 28, 2019

David Brooks

A brief history of the Elizabeth Warren presidency

A crisis of legitimacy swept across American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. Many people had the…

September 25, 2019

Paul Krugman

What’s really behind this rage against regulation?

What’s behind this hatred of regulation? You might think corporations want to be free to pollute and rip off their…

September 24, 2019

Maureen Dowd

Let’s debate: Are Democrats doomed to lose?

Even more than we knew. It isn’t just that he hovered over the Democratic debate last week. It’s more profound…

September 18, 2019

Ross Douthat

It’s the age of American despair – can we fix it?

The working shorthand for this crisis is “deaths of despair,” a resonant phrase conjured by economists Anne Case and Angus…

September 11, 2019

Guest Columns

Bring back the old, intriguing Elizabeth Warren

Now, she is rising toward the top, with Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. She has the highest favorability rating of…

September 6, 2019

Guest Columns

In Hong Kong, playing tennis with gas grenades

Yet even when chaos reigns during clashes with the police, protesters clean up litter from the battlefield. Medics stand by…

September 3, 2019

Frank Bruni

A surprising path from Zimbabwe to Ivy League

Before Wadzi, 19, arrived at Columbia University last month for a summer bridge program to prepare for her first year,…

September 1, 2019

Guest Columns

Nostalgia breeds derangement. Let’s move on.

The book has enjoyed a new life among people struggling to make sense of the dual shocks of Brexit and…

August 30, 2019

Thomas Friedman

The Palestinian-Israeli peace process is a farce

At the official U.S. level, Jared Kushner has spent three years ginning up a peace plan that he still won’t…

August 25, 2019

Ross Douthat

Other bad things that could happen in a recession

First, the easy part: Donald Trump loses reelection. It will be ugly and flailing and desperate and – depending on…

August 22, 2019