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Conservatives can’t duck the blame on this one

Connor Betts, the alleged Dayton, Ohio, shooter, believed in socialism, supported Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy, and regularly inveighed on Twitter against various personages on the right (in...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

President Trump lets his followers off the hook

When a president orders up a special script, summons the national media and sends a message to all Americans that the “sinister ideologies” of “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” have no p...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

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

WASHINGTON – Once upon a time in America, it looked as if white men were at long last losing their tenacious grip on power. A black man made it into the White House. A Latina cong...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

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

Soren Kierkegaard asked God to give him the power to will one thing. Amid all the distractions of life he asked for the power to live a focused life, wholeheartedly, toward a single point. ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Multiple narratives – surprise – can all be true

The last issue of New York magazine featured a long, bizarre, amazing story by Kera Bolonik about a hapless Harvard Law professor, Bruce Hay, who managed to get duped by two apparent grifter...

DATE: Aug 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

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

Maybe we should stop talking about Donald Trump being a racist. “I think I’m winning,” he told reporters as he left for a rally Wednesday. The president was widely den...

DATE: Jul 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Scaling Wokeback Mountain – oops, don’t fall off

WASHINGTON – I was feeling on edge. Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve-wracking. So I we...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

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

I finally recognized the model for Joe Biden’s unusual campaign, the former president whose pitch Biden’s most resembles: George W. Bush. I’m referring to Bush’s first presidentia...

DATE: Jul 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Jeffrey Epstein is the symbol of plutocratic rot

In 2003, journalist Vicky Ward profiled Jeffrey Epstein, the financier indicted Monday on charges of sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls, for Vanity Fair. Her piece pa...

DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Moderates have a different story, and it’s better

American progressives have a story to tell, and they are not afraid to tell it. In this story, global capitalism is a war zone. Free trade is a racket. Big business and Big Pharma are rapaci...

DATE: Jul 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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

For several years I had a regular lunch with an Iranian diplomat – I suspect his real profession was otherwise – who worked out of the Islamic Republic’s mission to the United Nations. ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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

Any random heiress can sunbathe in the Seychelles, ski in Aspen or ascend the Himalayas. Only Ivanka has keepsakes from the Demilitarized Zone. It must have been wild, ...

DATE: Jul 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

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