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Venezuela is a catastrophe – a socialist nightmare

Every sensible observer agrees that Latin America’s once-richest country, sitting atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is an economic…

January 30, 2019

Nicholas Kristof

The Cuba embargo has failed – can we move on?

Let’s let Cuba be a normal country again. Cuba is neither the demonic tyranny conjured by some conservatives nor the…

January 26, 2019

David Brooks

This is how we destroy lives now on social media

It’s about finding and spreading the viral soap operas that are supposed to reveal the dark hearts of those who…

January 22, 2019

Guest Columns

Onset of Trump and Brexit show the West adrift

The pair resolved not to allow Iraq’s “naked aggression” to stand, and it did not. This was how the West…

January 21, 2019

Frank Bruni

It’s news vs. the president

Editors and reporters must learn to resist name-calling, shiny objects

January 20, 2019

Ross Douthat

Racists to the right and anti-Semites to the left

The rise of populism and the return of socialism have breached these cordons, and racism and Judeophobia have come through…

January 18, 2019

David Brooks

We need to make our free markets moral again

In his now famous monologue on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that American elites are using ruthless market forces to…

January 15, 2019

Guest Columns

This is what actual border security looks like

Since President Donald Trump thinks border security is the issue of our time, it’s worth considering how Israel – with…

January 14, 2019

Paul Krugman

Soaking the very rich makes good economic sense

The thought of having a young, telegenic nonwhite woman serve is driving many on the right mad – and in…

January 13, 2019

Guest Columns

Democrats have golden choices now for president

I’m financially disorganized at the best of times, and with a baby and a toddler, I was barely trying to…

January 10, 2019

Guest Columns

Useless knowledge can beget brand new horizons

Noting the way in which the concerns of modern education increasingly turned toward worldly problems and practical vocations, Flexner made…

January 7, 2019

Paul Krugman

Here’s how a Green New Deal could be practical

I’ll be astonished if there are bipartisan deals on anything important – even on infrastructure, where both sides claim to…

January 6, 2019

Ross Douthat

Trump 2019

Untamed or contained?

January 5, 2019

David Brooks

It’s the year of the wolf – and not in any good way

On his deathbed, Pavel tells the story of how they came to emigrate there. Many years before, back in Russia,…

January 3, 2019

David Brooks

Awards for long-form ideas journalism, continued

In one striking part of the essay, which appeared in The Atlantic, Julian shows that fewer young people are having…

January 1, 2019

Guest Columns

No one deserves citizenship

what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

December 29, 2018

Guest Columns

Trump is bad for Israel – and the entire Mideast

These past few weeks haven’t exactly validated your faith in the man, have they? You can track the performance of…

December 28, 2018

David Brooks

Best of 2018 long-form journalism about ideas

I do it so that we can step out of the daily rush of events and read things that are…

December 27, 2018

Paul Krugman

America! Here is your case for practical socialism

I’m never sure what the interviewers have in mind; neither, I suspect, do they. I don’t think they’re talking about…

December 25, 2018

David Brooks

Good tidings: There’s a new center being born

I’m optimistic. I say that because there have been many moments in our history when old ideas and old arrangements…

December 24, 2018

Guest Columns

Do not equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

That made her the second incoming member of Congress to publicly back BDS, after Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat who…

December 22, 2018

Guest Columns

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism

It’s a call for the elimination of a state and all its Jewish people

December 21, 2018

Guest Columns

An antidote to idiocy in new Churchill biography

Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to grovel. “Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill,” he wrote.…

December 20, 2018

Ross Douthat

America’s post-Christian future

Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once would have been lukewarm Christmas-and-Easter churchgoers now…

December 14, 2018