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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

Thoughts for the very wealthy political donors

If your net worth is south of $25 million, feel free to skip today’s column. I’m writing this as an open letter to a handful of readers, distressed by the general state of our politics and d...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Krugman: Justice Kavanaugh will destroy the Constitution

At a fundamental level, the attempt to jam Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court closely resembles the way Republicans passed a tax cut last year. Once again, we see a rushed, nakedly parti...

DATE: Sep 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Come home, little senator, all is not forgiven

Jon Kyl has just been sworn in to take John McCain’s empty seat in the Senate. Two ways of looking at this. The normal way is to shrug and move on. That’s certainly understandable...

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Douthat: Will Democrats own the Asian-American vote?

This past week, the Trump Justice Department threw its weight behind a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard University, in which a group of Asian-American plaintiffs claim – with a great dea...

DATE: Sep 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Krugman: It can happen here

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine – an expert on international relations – made a joke: “Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of communism, it can r...

DATE: Aug 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Leonhardt: Republicans should heed McCain’s last message

John McCain was no moderate. He won Barry Goldwater’s Arizona seat in 1986 and was, for the most part, a fitting heir to Goldwater. McCain supported a smaller federal government, a hawkish f...

DATE: Aug 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

Stephens: Here’s what really makes America great, governor

Though Bill Clinton was a far better talker than he was an orator, at least one of his sentences should be carved in stone: “There is nothing wrong with America,” he said in his 1993 Inaugur...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Egan: The silent green majority is fed up – and voting

If emotions were water, and you took all the heartbreak felt by the millions who followed the plight of a starving orca whale grieving over her dead calf, you’d have a river the size of the ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Tim Egan

Krugman: Nancy Pelosi is a better leader than you realize

Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes. But Donald Trump’s tax cut remains remarkably unpopul...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Douthat: The white-voter strategy that actually worked

In the aftermath of the 2012 election, when just about everyone assumed Mitt Romney lost because he didn’t win enough Hispanic votes, election analyst Sean Trende produced a dissenting take....

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

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