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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

Douthat: What has Mitt Romney learned?

First, some praise for Mitt Romney, who is apparently poised to run for the Senate from Utah now that Orrin Hatch has announced his retirement. The 2012 Republican presidential no...

DATE: Jan 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Brooks: ‘The Sidneys’ part II - the year’s best long-form journalism

I was entranced by an essay in Emergency Physicians Monthly. It’s an oral testimony by Dr. Kevin Menes, who was in charge of the emergency department of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas the nig...

DATE: Jan 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: ‘The Sidneys’ part I - the year’s best long-form journalism

Those of us on the Decision Desk of the Sidney Awards faced a moral dilemma. Could we give a Sidney to an essay the title of which we couldn’t quote in a family newspaper? We dec...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: How Trump made Putin’s Christmas

At the end of this banner stock market year, you can bet that major business publications will be naming their investor of the year. You can stop now. I have the winner, and nobody is even c...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Kristof: Did genocide destroy this Rohingya village?

SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE MYANMAR BORDER — “Ethnic cleansing” and even “genocide” are antiseptic and abstract terms. What they mean in the flesh is a soldier grabbing a crying baby girl...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: GOP tax bill a missed opportunity to help workers and the middle class

I am not appalled that the Republican tax bill cuts the corporate tax rate to 21 percent. Some of my liberal friends treat this as a moral horror and trot out all sorts of awful distribution...

DATE: Dec 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krugman: Passing through to corruption

Unless something drastic happens, this will be the week Republicans ram through a tax cut that adds more than a trillion dollars to federal debt while undermining health care for millions. T...

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Alabama says no to Trump’s tribalism

There are so many things I could say right now after watching Doug Jones defeat Roy Moore in the Senate race in Alabama, but for me it comes down to just two words: “Thank you.” T...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Douthat: The baker and the empire

There are fine constitutional lawyers who can argue back and forth about the Masterpiece Cakeshop case the Supreme Court heard last week, which will determine whether a Christian baker can d...

DATE: Dec 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Krugman: The Republican war on children

Let me ask you a question; take your time in answering it. Would you be willing to take health care away from a thousand children with the bad luck to have been born into low-income families...

DATE: Dec 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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