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Collins: Rick Perry’s strange sex story

Oh, that Rick Perry. Our secretary of energy was in South Africa recently, for Africa Oil Week. Whenever the word “oil” is mentioned, Perry responds like a dog on the scent of a h...

DATE: Nov 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Special counsel Robert Mueller is in the cross hairs

We may shortly be facing a national crisis. President Donald Trump’s base is egging him on to undertake his own “Saturday Night Massacre” and fire Robert Mueller for committing ....

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Egan: National parks for the 1 percent or all Americans?

America’s Best Idea is now just another commodity. A president who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde had it, wants to make it prohibitively expensive for...

DATE: Nov 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: Trump, Niger and connecting the dots

It is easy to ignore the recent story of four U.S. servicemen killed in Niger, the giant state in central Africa, because the place is so remote and the circumstances still so murky. That wo...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Krugman: Trump’s $700 billion gift to wealthy foreigners

Why is Donald Trump planning to give away $700 billion – that’s billion, with a “b” – to foreigners, no strings attached? You probably didn’t know that he’s planning to do this. In fact, he ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Trump’s legacy - damaged brains

There is an image that shows what a common pesticide does to a child’s brain. The pesticide, which belongs to a class of chemicals developed as a nerve gas made by Nazi Germany, i...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: And then there was one left with integrity intact

In March, I wrote a column in the form of a memo to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, CIA Director M...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Kristof: Trump is inspirational ... for poetry

My readers have the best words, as Donald Trump might say. Evidence for that comes from the caliber of the 2,750 poems submitted to my Trump poetry contest. With the help of the Poetry Socie...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Douthat: What’s the matter with Republicans?

Thirteen years ago, in the midst of a different Republican administration, the liberal book of the moment was Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” In answering his title’s questio...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Brooks: We are dividing into upswingers and downswingers

The popular gloom notwithstanding, we’re actually living in an era of astounding progress. We’ve seen the greatest reduction in global poverty in history. As Steven Pinker has documented, we...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krugman: The GOP is no party for honest men

According to a new CBS News poll, almost 60 percent of the American public believes that the current Republican tax plan favors the wealthy. Some people see this number as a sign that the pl...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Trump’s approach escalates North Korea tensions

On just the first day of a war between the United States and North Korea, according to a Stanford University assessment, 1 million people could be killed. Yet after my five-day vi...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

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