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Conservatives can’t duck the blame on this one

This has some conservatives fuming that liberal media is conveniently ignoring the progressive ideology of one shooter while obsessing over…

August 13, 2019

Frank Bruni

President Trump lets his followers off the hook

But these aren’t normal times. Donald Trump isn’t a normal president. And those words, which he spoke Monday, made me…

August 9, 2019

Maureen Dowd

Is the bar higher for Bennet because he’s white?

A black man made it into the White House. A Latina congresswoman emerged as the biggest star in the capital.…

August 6, 2019

David Brooks

Greatness doesn’t demand that you be a jerk, too

We’ve all known geniuses and others who have practiced a secular version of this. They have found their talent and…

August 2, 2019

Ross Douthat

Multiple narratives – surprise – can all be true

From this paternity-trap beginning, Hay found himself emotionally entangled, ideologically bullied and effectively extorted. At one point, Shuman and Haider…

August 1, 2019

Gail Collins

How not to insult Trump: Don’t call him a racist

“I think I’m winning,” he told reporters as he left for a rally Wednesday. The president was widely denounced for…

July 22, 2019

Maureen Dowd

Scaling Wokeback Mountain – oops, don’t fall off

Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve-wracking. So I…

July 19, 2019

Frank Bruni

I finally got it: Joe Biden is George W. Bush

I’m referring to Bush’s first presidential bid, in 2000, which is remembered mostly for its surreal climax. To the limited…

July 16, 2019

Guest Columns

Jeffrey Epstein is the symbol of plutocratic rot

Her piece painted him as an enigmatic Jay Gatsby type, a boy from a middle-class family in Brooklyn who had…

July 12, 2019

Guest Columns

Moderates have a different story, and it’s better

You need a government prepared for war. You need a government fired by economic nationalism, willing to play trade hardball…

July 10, 2019

Guest Columns

‘Cancel culture’ of left is a lot like Trump’s politics

Our conversations, always on background, were exceptionally candid. He almost surely sought me out because my pro-Israel stance represented, in…

July 8, 2019

Frank Bruni

Oh, to be Ivanka and go on all these adventures!

Only Ivanka has keepsakes from the Demilitarized Zone. It must have been wild, finding herself next to an egomaniacal autocrat…

July 7, 2019

Guest Columns

How not to live liberal values in an illiberal age

We were discussing a Harvard law professor, Ronald Sullivan. He had been pushed out of his secondary job as head…

July 4, 2019

Guest Columns

Joe Biden doesn’t look so electable in person

It was just a couple of weeks after he’d reversed his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal…

July 2, 2019

Guest Columns

Fake meat will save us from climate change

I don’t mean to slight the surging U.S. women’s team, but the plant-based protein slab made nearly as big an…

June 27, 2019

Guest Columns

What ‘Chernobyl’ teaches us about Donald Trump

My Trump Derangement Syndrome has not spiked to on the ideological dosimeter. And no, I don’t think of the Trump…

June 24, 2019

Guest Columns

I want to live in Elizabeth Warren’s America

I don’t mean that the Massachusetts senator is a better speaker than anyone who has ever run, nor a more…

June 24, 2019

Guest Columns

We could always just sink the pirate ships of Iran

The explosion injured 10 of her crew and nearly sank the ship. Four days later, the U.S. Navy destroyed half…

June 23, 2019

David Brooks

Harvard is choosing the wrong path to wisdom

One of those students was Kyle Kashuv. Despite the trauma of the shootings and a busy impromptu career as a…

June 20, 2019

David Brooks

Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!

Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped.…

June 18, 2019

Guest Columns

The worst president hails the greatest generation

It’s not a rhetorical question. The event is more distant to us than Custer’s Last Stand was to the men…

June 17, 2019

David Brooks

Witches, astrology speak to resistance, disruption

The first is astrology. According to a 2018 Pew poll, 29% of Americans say they believe in astrology. That’s more…

June 14, 2019

Ross Douthat

The one-income trap

feminists and conservatives unite around policies that work for families?

June 11, 2019

Guest Columns

This podcast perfect for mom-spying

After a bad breakup, the woman, whom the podcast producers were calling Joni, had found a sperm donor and had…

June 10, 2019