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Brooks: The strange failure of the educated elite

Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the corpo...

DATE: Jun 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Bruni: Artistotle’s wrongful death as college majors shift

History is on the ebb. Philosophy is on the ropes. And comparative literature? Please. It’s an intellectual heirloom: cherished by those who can afford such baubles but disposable in the eye...

DATE: May 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Blow: Time to change political tactics on gun control

The school shooting has become an American motif, a previously unthinkable option for the odd, the alienated and the spurned, a way to find voice through violence. We had yet anot...

DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kristof: Death row case reveals broken justice system

The first sign that something was wrong was a continuous busy signal on the home phone of Doug and Peggy Ryen. Bill Hughes, who lived nearby, wasn’t initially concerned that morning. His 11-...

DATE: May 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: Gaza violence shows us how extremism corrupts

As you know, everybody sees the Middle East through his or her own narrative. Conservatives see it through the “front line in the war on terror” narrative and defend Israel’s actions on the ...

DATE: May 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Brooks: Trump’s lizard wisdom plays out in thug world

We’re all educated by our peers and, over the years, a good portion of Donald Trump’s peers have been bullies and thugs. Operating in the New York construction world meant dealin...

DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Kristof: Trump vandalizes the Iran deal

President Donald Trump’s attempt to blow up the Iranian nuclear deal isn’t foreign policy. It’s vandalism. Trump is abandoning the Iran deal, with nothing to replace it, even thou...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Bruni: Renounce Pelosi, ignore Trump ... and win?

WAXHAW, N.C. — Does Conor Lamb strike twice? Dan McCready certainly hopes so. Like Lamb, who won a special House election in Pennsylvania two months ago, McCready is a Democratic congression...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Collins: Sex, Trump and Planned Parenthood’s Richards

Cecile Richards just finished her Planned Parenthood farewell tour. Lots to reminisce about. But let’s start with her famous meeting with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. It was af...

DATE: May 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Leonhardt: Let’s hope Barnes & Noble can survive

Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain’s stores, a cluttered...

DATE: May 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

Kristof: Our addiction to Trump

We in the commentariat complain about President Donald Trump, but we’re locked in a symbiotic relationship with him. News organizations, especially cable television channels, feed...

DATE: May 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: The U.S. and China are finally having it out

With the arrival in Beijing this week of the United States’ top trade negotiators, you might think that the U.S. and China are about to enter high-level talks to avoid a trade war and that t...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

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