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More schools, fewer tanks

What the Mideast needs from the U.S. now is not force but education

DATE: Feb 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

The Super Bowl that a broken America deserves

I’m not really sure why they’re bothering with a Super Bowl this year. Sure, a bunch of people will make a boatload of money, tens of millions of us will reflexively tune in and w...

DATE: Feb 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Venezuela is a catastrophe – a socialist nightmare

Conspicuous by its relative absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela’s political crisis is the word “socialism.” Every sensible observer agrees that Latin Amer...

DATE: Jan 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Cuba embargo has failed – can we move on?

HAVANA – It has been 60 years since Fidel Castro marched into Havana, so it’s time for both Cuba and the United States to grow up. Let’s let Cuba be a normal country again. ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

This is how we destroy lives now on social media

Within living memory, political polarization had at least something to do with issues, but in the age of social media, it’s almost entirely about social type. It’s about finding a...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Onset of Trump and Brexit show the West adrift

In August 1990, George H.W. Bush met Margaret Thatcher in Aspen right after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. The pair resolved not to allow Iraq’s “naked aggression” to stand,...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

It’s news vs. the president

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

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Racists to the right and anti-Semites to the left

The last five years in Western politics has seen a repeated failure of the barriers that political establishments have tried to throw up against both radical ideas and xenophobic sentiments....

DATE: Jan 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

We need to make our free markets moral again

Suddenly economic populism is all the rage. In his now famous monologue on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that American elites are using ruthless market forces to enrich themselv...

DATE: Jan 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

This is what actual border security looks like

ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER – Other than the Korean Peninsula’s DMZ, there’s probably no border in the world as fraught with the potential for sudden violence as this one, known locally as ...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Soaking the very rich makes good economic sense

I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already serving a valuable purpose. The thought of having a young, teleg...

DATE: Jan 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Democrats have golden choices now for president

A few years ago, when I was self-employed and had recently had my second child, my husband went combing through my credit card statements, looking for tax deductions that I’d missed. ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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