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Bruni: America’s worst (and best) places to be gay

All my life I’ve loved Texas: those big skies, big steaks and big attitudes. I’m there several times a year. But Texas doesn’t love me back. Certainly its lawmakers don’t, and lat...

DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Collins: Time is right for bipartisan bail system reform

One of my fond childhood memories is going to the amusement park in Cincinnati on Republican Day. My grandfather, who was a bail bondsman, organized the outings so I could ride on the rides ...

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

Douthat: Our house divided

Summertime, sweltering and stressful, makes our cold civil war feel hot. The madness and violence of last year crested in the summer, with the shootings of cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge. No...

DATE: Aug 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Kristof: We are journalists, not the enemy

Sigh. If only President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists. What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazi...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Brooks: Why moderates, not warriors, should be leaders

Donald Trump is not the answer to this nation’s problems, so the great questions of the moment are: If not Trump, what? And what does the reaction to Trump look like? ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krugman: What will Trump do to American workers?

With Steve Bannon out of the White House, it’s clearer than ever that President Donald Trump’s promise to be a populist fighting for ordinary workers was worth about as much as any other Tru...

DATE: Aug 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bruni: Eclipse reveals the nature of American marketing

Situated on a busy thoroughfare and oh so romantically named, the 1st Interstate Motel in Casper, Wyoming, could stand improvement. Eight of its nine reviewers on Trip Advisor gave it the lo...

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

We’ve run away from home to find ourselves again

ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, NORTHWEST OF TRUCKEE, Calif. – This will make me sound grouchy and misanthropic, but I sometimes wonder if what makes America great isn’t so much its people as it...

DATE: Aug 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Krugman: At heart, Donald Trump is not a real American

Remember back in 2008, when Sarah Palin used to talk about the “real America?” She meant rural and small-town residents — white residents, it went without saying — who supposedly embodied th...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

David Brooks: Time for a change at the helm of Google

There are many actors in the whole Google diversity drama, but I’d say the one who’s behaved the worst is the CEO, Sundar Pichai. The first actor is James Damore, who wrote the me...

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

Brooks: Getting Trump out of my brain

Last week, The Washington Post published transcripts of Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders. A dear friend sent me an email suggesting I read them because they reveal how Trump...

DATE: Aug 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krugman: What’s next for progressives?

For now, at least, the attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears dead. Sabotage by a spiteful Trump administration is still a risk, but there is – gasp! – a bipartisan push to limit ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

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