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H.W. Bush and the maddening wars over his legacy

On Twitter over the weekend, the television writer Bryan Behar did something unconscionable. He praised George H.W. Bush. The former president had just died. In Behar’s...

DATE: Dec 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Black, female, Republican – and gone, gone, gone

From proud Republican harbinger to sad Republican castaway – that’s the story of Rep. Mia Love, who finally conceded her extraordinarily close House race Monday. It’s the story of...

DATE: Dec 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Liberal parents, radical children – once again

When I meet someone who runs an organization in a blue state, I often ask: Do you have a generation gap where you work? The answer – whether the person leads a college, a nonprofi...

DATE: Nov 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Who wants to play Monopoly? America, do you?

The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong. The colonists were not responding to a tax increase. They were responding to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted a...

DATE: Nov 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

The Establishment will save the working classes

What should we do during the next two years of divided government? We could spend them as we’ve spent the last two: Express daily contempt from within the safety of our political ...

DATE: Nov 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Polis, Ocasio-Cortez are wrong on student debt

Democrats won’t be able to do much policy-making over the next two years, because of President Donald Trump and the Republican Senate. But they can use their House majority to do ...

DATE: Nov 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

What happened to conservatism? It degenerated.

There’s a powerful moment at the start of Anne Applebaum’s recent essay in The Atlantic. She’s recalling a party she threw on Dec. 31, 1999, at her home in Poland. Many of the hun...

DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Can we get Al Gore to run for the Dems in 2020?

Time and Donald Trump do interesting things to a man. They make Al Gore glitter. It’s almost impossible not to be thinking of Gore now, with the words “Florida” and “re...

DATE: Nov 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Is the struggle to stay human still relevant today?

I watched Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “Paths of Glory” last weekend, prompted by all the World War I centenary tributes. Set in the trenches near the end of the war, it’s a movi...

DATE: Nov 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

The Resistance couldn’t convert votes into seats

For months we’ve heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year’s midterms were the last exit off the road to autocracy. Last Tuesday, the American people delivered a less dramatic v...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Trump is a happy loser; ’bye, Otter!

Wow, Jeff Sessions was gone before they finished counting votes in Arizona. Do you think Donald Trump was trying to change the subject? Everybody knew he’d get a new attorney gene...

DATE: Nov 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Trump, under scrutiny and even more unleashed

Well, that was bittersweet. I’m not sure I would call Tuesday’s election results the blue wave many expected, but liberals absolutely made progress – and history – as Democrats as...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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