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Brooks: The precious and potent power of human touch

In 1945, Austrian physician René Spitz investigated an orphanage that took extra care to make sure its infants were not infected with disease. The children received first-class n...

DATE: Jan 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Douthat: The necessity of Stephen Miller

After 12 years of failed attempts at immigration reform, the current round of negotiations are turning on a strangely personalized question: When a deal is being made, should Stephen Miller ...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Kristof: Trump leads the world, backward

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump didn’t say how delighted he was to be in Sweden, he didn’t call any countries s-holes, he didn’t threaten to “totally destroy” another nation, and...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: The tweet Trump could never send Tehran

After violent protests recently exploded across Iran, President Donald Trump vowed to differentiate himself from President Barack Obama by openly tweeting his support for the demonstrators. ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: Democrats go for the jugular! (Their own)

The Republicans are led by a bigoted, incompetent president whose approval ratings are near historic lows. The Republicans in Congress embrace one unpopular policy option after another, so t...

DATE: Jan 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Come to this island, before it disappears

But come quickly, while it’s still here. “My house was over there,” said Zainal Abedin, a farmer, pointing to the waves about 100 feet from the shore. “At low tide, we can still s...

DATE: Jan 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: Conflicting views on how democracies perish

Everybody agrees society is in a bad way, but what exactly is the main cause of the badness? Some people emphasize economic issues: The simultaneous concentration of wealth at t...

DATE: Jan 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Trump’s threat to Democracy

Two political scientists specializing in how democracies decay and die have compiled four warning signs to determine if a political leader is a dangerous authoritarian: 1. The lea...

DATE: Jan 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Dreamers fate may rest on the mood of the moment

We’re thinking about that lovely bipartisan meeting the president hosted Tuesday with members of Congress about immigration. Everybody was impressed by how concerned Trump seemed...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

From the Department of Injustice, more prohibition

After foraging through the dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the wil...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: Praise for those who ‘move in traffic with prudence’

Over the past several years we have done an outstanding job of putting total sleazoids at the top of our society: Trump, Bannon, Ailes, Weinstein, Cosby, etc. So it was good to g...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: The retreat to tribalism

Imagine three kids running around a maypole, forming a chain with their arms. The innermost kid is holding the pole with one hand. The faster they run, the more centrifugal force...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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