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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

Friedman: We may all be connected, but no one’s in charge

There is an abiding dream in the tech world that when all the planet’s people and data are connected, it will be a better place. That may prove true. But getting there is turning...

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Krugman: State slogan aside, Virginia may well be for haters

Why is America the only wealthy nation that doesn’t guarantee essential health care for all? (We’ve made a lot of progress under Obamacare, but not enough, and the Trump administration is do...

DATE: Oct 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: Our culture war prevents progress on gun issues

The pattern is by now numbingly familiar. A lone lunatic murders a mass of innocent people in some public location. There is a heartfelt cry for tighter control on gun ownership. Then state ...

DATE: Oct 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Inside North Korea, and feeling the drums of war

PYONGYANG, North Korea — To fly into North Korea on an old Russian aircraft is to step into an alternate universe, one in which “the Supreme Leader” defeats craven U.S. imperialists, in whic...

DATE: Oct 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Collins: Hypocrisy is rife in latest House vote on abortion

Our topic for today is hypocrisy. The scene is – where else? – Congress. This week the House of Representatives voted 237-189 to make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion on a woma...

DATE: Oct 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Friedman: If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim

If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim ... If only he had shouted “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire on all those concertgoers in Las Vegas ... If only he had been a member of ISIS ... ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Kristof: We can act before the next mass shooting

After the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, the impulse of politicians is to lower flags, offer moments of silence and lead somber tributes. But what we need most of all isn’t mourning but act...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: The philosophical assault on Trumpism

Establishment Republicans have tried five ways to defeat or control Donald Trump, and they have all failed. Jeb Bush tried to outlast Trump, and let him destroy himself. That fai...

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

Friedman: Folks, we’re home alone

Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote a famous memoir, “Present at the Creation,” about the birth of the post-World War II order — an order whose institutions produced six decades of ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: Sam Francis predicted the coming war on business

The only time I saw Sam Francis face-to-face – in the Washington Times cafeteria sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s – I thought he was a crank, but it’s clear now that he was at that ...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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