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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

Brooks: The place that assumes beauty

COMO, Italy — Some of the people who do the most good have a willingness to be radically changed. They are sensitive to the problems around them, which a lot of us are, but they are also wil...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Collins: Yipes! The canned the chaplain

For the first time in history, the chaplain of the House of Representatives has been fired. Our two questions, naturally, are: A) Why? And B) Can we blame Donald Trump? We do not ...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gail Collins

Kristof: Trump treats immigrant kids cruelly because he can

A lifetime ago, Anne Frank’s family applied for visas to the United States to escape Hitler, but we rejected the Franks and other desperate Jewish refugees. We thought: This is Europe’s prob...

DATE: Apr 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Dowd: Fake pearls, real heart and a 100 ways to shine light

WASHINGTON — Barbara Bush was an expert at throwing shade, even before the term existed. When Congressman Dan Rostenkowski gave the first lady a shampoo for white hair made in his...

DATE: Apr 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

Bruni: The Bush twins want to set the record straight

Editor’s note: This column first published in The New York Times on Oct. 19, 2017.The other morning, after too little sleep and with too much to do, Jenna Bush Hager found herself draggi...

DATE: Apr 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Krugman: The price of blocking technical progress on renewables is high

Peter Thiel, Facebook investor and Donald Trump supporter, is by all accounts a terrible person. He did, however, come up with one classic line about the disappointments of moder...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Brooks: The blindness of social wealth

Bob Hall was a rancher. In 1936, in the midst of the Depression, he was suffering from a cancer that was eating the flesh on the side of his face. His ranch had dwindled to nearly nothing, a...

DATE: Apr 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Kristof: The nation will pay if Trump fires Mueller

President Donald Trump resembles a Geiger counter: When he emits increasing howls, he is signaling that we’re approaching some radioactive or explosive truth. Trump is said to be ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Douthat: Why not Mike Pence?

A few days ago, which is to say an eternity in our Trump-dilated time, there was a story on NPR about anxious evangelicals’ seeking a meeting with the president. The subject of th...

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Brooks: The failures of anti-Trumpism

WACO, Texas – Over the past year, those of us in the anti-Trump camp have churned out billions of words critiquing the president. The point of this work is to expose the harm Pre...

DATE: Apr 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

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