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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

Bruni: Chris Christie’s tutorial in hubris

We can scoff and sneer at those images of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on his beachfront imperium, or we can learn from them. As he took in the sun, he doled out a lesson, the same one tha...

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

Brooks: Why did many working class voters support Trump?

Over the past two months, the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have proposed a budget and two health care plans that would take benefits away from core Republican constit...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Good news, despite what you’ve heard

GANTA, Liberia – Cheer up: Despite the gloom, the world truly is becoming a better place. Indeed, 2017 is likely to be the best year in the history of humanity. To explain why, le...

DATE: Jul 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: Trump is China’s Chump

HONG KONG – Having just traveled to New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, China, Taiwan and now Hong Kong, I can say without an ounce of exaggeration that more than a few Asia-Pacific busines...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: The GOP has a vision for government, but not America

ASPEN – There is a structural flaw in modern capitalism. Tremendous income gains are going to those in the top 20 percent, but prospects are diminishing for those in the middle and working c...

DATE: Jun 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Opioid crisis calls for national-level response

About as many Americans are expected to die this year of drug overdoses as died in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. For more than 100 years, death rates have been ...

DATE: Jun 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Bruni: For more and more Americans, I’m okay and you’re evil

In denouncing the hatred that brought bloodshed to a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Virginia, some people went ahead and spread more of it. Rush Limbaugh, take a bow. You called the shooter...

DATE: Jun 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: Let’s not get carried away

I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal busines...

DATE: Jun 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Douthat: This era is crazy, but not as crazy as we may think

The first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual. By which I mean...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Bruni: The mortification of Jeff Sessions

The appearance of Jeff Sessions before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday didn’t bring us much closer to understanding what did or didn’t happen between Donald Trump and the Russia...

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

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