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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

David Leonhardt: Big business is overcharging you

When Thomas Philippon moved to Boston from his native France 20 years ago, he was a graduate student on a budget, and he was happy to discover how cheap American telephone use was. In those ...

DATE: Nov 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

Timothy Egan: Democrats are insulting the voters they’ll need

Among the people I love is a sibling who works at Walmart cleaning toilets at night in a thinly populated part of eastern Oregon. She’s been there more than 25 years and has trouble saving a...

DATE: Nov 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Tim Egan

Frank Bruni: Why does Donald Trump hate my dog?

Reaching for verbs to describe Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final moments, President Donald Trump grabbed hold of “crying,” “screaming” and “whimpering.” Reaching for nouns, he said tha...

DATE: Nov 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Farhad Manjoo: Say goodbye to California

I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my love for this place and its people runs deep and true. There have been many times in the past few years when I’ve called myself a Califo...

DATE: Nov 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

David Brooks: Impeach Trump – and then move on

Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment? When you hang around Washington, you get the sense that it could happen. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

David Leonhardt: The climate is more important than health care

When Bill Clinton became president, his top legislative priority was health care. When Barack Obama became president, he first had to prevent a depression, but then he too turned to health c...

DATE: Nov 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Leonhardt

Ross Douthat: Most superhero movies are not fit for mature minds

Two interesting things have been happening in the world of film over the last month. A relatively low-budget, no-special effects movie that places Batman’s Joker in a version of Martin Scors...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Farhad Manjoo: Why doesn’t Mark Zuckerberg just retire?

If I were Mark Zuckerberg – newfound defender-to-the-death of liberal free expression even if it includes outright lying except if there are female nipples, a would-be curer of all the world...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Elizabeth Warren is trying hard to lose your vote

A decade ago, it was conventional wisdom that the world would soon start running low on oil and that the United States would henceforth be at the mercy of an inexorable trend. Then the frack...

DATE: Nov 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

David Brooks: Tipping is broken and immoral

For most of my life, I’ve been glad that America is a society that relies heavily on tipping. First, tipping allows us to reward excellent service. Second, in a world of rising economic ineq...

DATE: Oct 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

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