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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

Friedman: Not all climate shifts concern the weather

I have a simple view of governing today: We are in the middle of not one but three climate changes at once to which government must help citizens respond. And Donald Trump doesn’t have a clu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: Sen. Jeff Flake plants a flag

Do you ever get the feeling we’re all going to be judged for this moment? Historians, our grandkids and we ourselves will look and ask: What did you do as the Trump/Scaramucci/Bannon adminis...

DATE: Aug 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Motherhood is deadlier in America

HOUSTON — We love mothers, or at least we say we do, and we claim that motherhood is as American as apple pie. We’re lying. In fact, we’ve structured health care so that motherhoo...

DATE: Aug 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: Self-driving people, enabled by Airbnb

Roughly a decade ago two new “platform” companies burst out of California. The one that dominated the headlines was called Uber, which created a platform where with one touch of your phone y...

DATE: Jul 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Egan: The last best empty place in America

At dawn, the woodpeckers start in, hammering heads against tree trunks, and you wonder if there’s a better way for a bird to make a living. Oh, the avian migraines. Twilight lingers till nea...

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

Leonhardt: A summer project to nourish your political soul

Righteousness comes easily in these polarized times. We all have reasons for our opinions, and we tend to be surrounded by people who hold similar ones. The more we talk politics, the more c...

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

Kristof: A solution when a nation’s schools fail

BUCHANAN, Liberia – Imagine an elementary school where students show up, but teachers don’t. Where 100 students squeeze into a classroom but don’t get any books. Where teachers are sometimes...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: Israel to U.S. Jews – You just don’t matter

To the casual observer, Israel has never looked more secure and prosperous. Its Arab neighbors are in disarray. Iran’s nuclear program has been mothballed for a while. The Trump team could n...

DATE: Jul 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Douthat: A conspiracy of dunces

Here is a good rule of thumb for dealing with Donald Trump: Everyone who gives him the benefit of the doubt eventually regrets it. This was true of clients and contractors and cre...

DATE: Jul 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Kristof: Liu Xiaobo has suffered so others may be free

Dear Liu Xiaobo, You may be the man I most admire. For decades you’ve struggled and suffered to advance human liberty, at the cost of your own – and now, it seems, at the cost of ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

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