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Finally, I have a reason to be grateful for Trump

For the first time since Donald Trump entered the political fray, I find myself grateful that he’s in it. I’m reluctant to admit it and astonished to say it, especially since the ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

America’s role in Yemen’s misery is outrageous

The news about Brett Kavanaugh is addictive, but spare just a moment for crimes against humanity that the United States is supporting in far-off Yemen. President Donald Trump didn...

DATE: Sep 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Only the truth can save us now. Let’s try to find it.

The day before Thursday’s endless, grueling, moving, infuriating hearings, which mostly provided an exhibit in the case for the dissolution of our Senate, I argued that we would all probably...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

The Supreme Court is coming apart at the seams

The Supreme Court is an unusual institution because it somehow manages to be both majestic and intimate. The court is housed in a marble temple with soaring columns, and it has ma...

DATE: Sep 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

America needs to hear from Christine Blasey Ford

In amoral political terms, Senate Republicans have been skillful in handling Christine Blasey’s Ford’s allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when ...

DATE: Sep 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

This amputee showed us how to win

When he was 4 years old, his mother found him in the kitchen with a knife. He was summoning the nerve to slice off his own fingers. This wasn’t because he was crazy but because h...

DATE: Sep 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

We’re measuring the economy completely wrong

Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Bros., the official economic statistics – the ones that fill news stories, television shows and presidential tweets – say the U.S. economy is fully rec...

DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

In cruel China, faith and conscience are crimes

Every now and then, when credulous Western observers aren’t fawning over China’s high-speed rail network or calculating the precise moment when its economy will become the world’s largest, a...

DATE: Sep 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Bruni: The most contrarian college in America

SANTA FE – Have I got a college for you. For your first two years, your regimen includes ancient Greek. And I do mean Greek, the language, not Greece, the civilization, though you’ll also ha...

DATE: Sep 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

GOP leaders never really cared about deficits

Lehman Bros. failed 10 years ago. The U.S. economy was already in a recession, but Lehman’s fall and the chaos that followed sent it off a cliff: Six and a half million jobs would be lost du...

DATE: Sep 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Iran’s gambit in Syria can still be stopped by U.S.

The Trump administration has made clear that its top priority in the Middle East is to thwart Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions. So why is it so reluctant to lift a finger against Tehran...

DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Krugman: Affordable Care still works despite GOP sabotage

Last week, Ted Cruz, the unexpectedly endangered Republican senator from Texas, warned that Beto O’Rourke, his Democratic opponent, would turn the state into California, with “tofu and silic...

DATE: Sep 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

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