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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

Leonhardt: The halfhearted oppostion to the GOP’s health care bill

The Republican health care bill now sneaking its way through the Senate has a good chance of becoming law, even though it would do miserable damage. And it has a good chance partly because s...

DATE: Jun 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kristof: Dear Paul Ryan, Listen to Planned Parenthood patients

Dear Paul Ryan, As you work with President Trump to cut off federal funds for Planned Parenthood, Mr. Ryan, I consulted some experts – patients in your own district. I ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: With China’s technological ascent, Trump is right to press on the trade imbalance

One of the many dangers posed to our society by having a president who’s a serial liar – and who doesn’t behave like an adult, let alone a president – is that we more easily ignore him even ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: Selfishness makes enemies and destroys empires

This week, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote the following passage in The Wall Street Journal: “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a c...

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

Kristof: What monkeys can teach us about fairness

Monkeys were taught in an experiment to hand over pebbles in exchange for cucumber slices. They were happy with this deal. Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in sig...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Friedman: Trump’s America is the United American Emirate

SEOUL, South Korea – President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe was truly historic. He left our most important allies there so uncertain about America’s commitment to their security...

DATE: Jun 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Brooks: Jared Kushner and the knotty politics of clan

Jared Kushner deserves a bit of sympathy. All his life he’s been serving his father or father-in-law. All his career he’s been thrust into roles he’s not ready for. His background has ill pr...

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

Patriotic reminders for our Republican leadership

We certainly don’t want leading Republicans to tumble into hypocrisy, so let’s refresh their memories. Patriots like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have eloquently warned of the importance of...

DATE: May 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Egan: Old-fashioned war is diplomacy by other means

ARRAS, France – In the springtime of 100 years ago, nations that shared a Christian heritage slaughtered one another over a few miles of mud. In just one battle, the great powers of Europe f...

DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

A road trip through rusting and rising America

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — In his dystopian Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump painted a picture of America as a nation gripped by vast “carnage” – a landscape of “rusted-out factories scatte...

DATE: May 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

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