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Opinion | How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair?

At camp, David Brooks gave Peter Marks a lift.Credit…Photo illustration by Thomas Sauvin; photograph courtesy of the Marks family Supported by Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Brooks Opinion Columnist My friendship with Peter Marks was […]

Opinion | Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Queen of Having It Both Ways

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Frank Bruni Mr. Bruni is a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University, the author of “The Beauty of Dusk” and a contributing Opinion writer. I keep hearing and […]

Opinion | Regulation, Productivity and the Meaning of Life

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist A few days ago The Times published a very interesting column by my colleague Ezra Klein about America’s peculiar lack of progress in the art of building […]

Opinion | ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Very Conservative Show. Really.

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist Toward the end of the achingly poignant, much-discussed third episode of “The Last of Us,” HBO’s new zombie dystopia series, there’s an earnest ode to traditional masculinity. […]

Opinion | Robbed of Space to Mourn

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist When RowVaughn Wells arrived at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on an icy, gray Wednesday in Memphis, she was there to say goodbye to her son Tyre […]

Opinion | Be Open to Spiritual Experience. Also, Be Really Careful.

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Pundits depend on categorizations, especially in periods of turbulence. We reach for labels like “populist” or “nationalist,” for instance, in order to generalize about the stirrings of […]

Opinion | Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage?

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Rural resentment has become a central fact of American politics — in particular, a pillar of support for the rise of right-wing extremism. As the Republican Party […]

Opinion | Alec Baldwin Didn’t Have to Talk to the Police. Neither Do You.

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist Shortly after a prop gun Alec Baldwin was holding fired a bullet that killed a cinematographer and wounded a director on the set of the movie “Rust,” […]

Opinion | Biden Against the Wounded Extremists

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Brooks Opinion Columnist I’ve covered four presidents since joining The Times in 2003. Year after year (except during the Trump years) I go into the White House. The rooms are […]