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Thomas Friedman: Iran is crushing freedom one country at a time

Having covered the Middle East my entire adult life, I’m seeing some trends emerging there I’ve never seen before. From the streets of Beirut to streets all across Iran, Middle Ea...

DATE: Dec 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Michelle Goldberg: The thrilling shock of the movie ‘Queen & Slim’

I left a recent matinée of “Queen & Slim,” the mesmerizing new outlaw romance directed by Melina Matsoukas, astonished on two levels. The film kept me rapt; I cried through the end and left ...

DATE: Dec 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Frank Bruni: Thinking of building a wall? Jared is on the case!

Jared Kushner just got a promotion. Another one. And it’s perfect. The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the border wall. Josh Dawsey and Nick Miro...

DATE: Dec 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Ross Douthat: At least a President Sanders might leave us alone

The Democratic Party needs a nominee, but right now, it has a train wreck instead. The front-runner seems too old for the job and is poised to lose the first two primary season contests. The...

DATE: Dec 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

David Brooks: What you feel changes what you sense

This has been a golden age for brain research. We now have amazing brain scans that show which networks in the brain ramp up during different activities. But this emphasis on the brain has s...

DATE: Dec 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Thomas Friedman: Mike Bloomberg brings something needed to Dems’ race

I have a pet theory about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – that it is to wider trends in world affairs what off-Broadway is to Broadway. A lot of stuff seems to get perfected there, from a...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

David Brooks: Populism is failing. What’s next?

Crowds are chanting “Death to Khamenei” in Iran while the regime kills them en masse and shuts down the internet. Throngs are marching to preserve democratic rights in Hong Kong; Warsaw, Pol...

DATE: Nov 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

There’s one thing Trump gets right – about Israel

In recent Mideast news, the Iranian regime has reportedly killed more than 100 of its own people as it attempts to suppress another wave of nationwide demonstrations. The Islamic State is ta...

DATE: Nov 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Thomas Friedman: Mike Pompeo, last in his West Point class for integrity

It seems like every story you read about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo always includes the sentence that he graduated first in his class from West Point. That is not a small achievement. Bu...

DATE: Nov 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

David Brooks: Impeachment process shows the value of insiders

Let me tell you a secret. The public buildings of Washington are filled with very good people working hard for low pay and the public good. There are thousands of them and they are very much...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Nicholas Kristof: Let’s make war on loneliness

LONDON – We humans make a lonely crowd, and it’s killing us. Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to research published by ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Ross Douthat: Who likes ‘Latinx’?

Everyone remembers the image that demonstrated Donald Trump’s cluelessness about Hispanic voters: the picture, from May 2016, showing him grinning over a tortilla bowl, with the immortal twe...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

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