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The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think

The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think

If you’re thinking the Democrats’ job now is to come up with some new policies that appeal to the working class, you are thinking too small.

06.06.2025 200

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I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.

Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic...

30.05.2025 750

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Can We Please Stop Lying About Obama?

The problem with arguing that neoliberals left American workers behind is that it’s mostly untrue.

23.05.2025 400

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‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’

There’s a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.

17.05.2025 100

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How to Survive the Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact

I’ve found it necessary to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.

02.05.2025 200

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What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

19.04.2025 4000

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Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime

Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.

11.04.2025 1000

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How Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great

Trump’s tariffs erect a wall between Americans and other people — a wall that obstructs not only the flow of goods, but the flow of ideas,...

03.04.2025 8

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A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible

Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.

28.03.2025 200

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It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.

What happens when a superpower goes rogue.

14.03.2025 750

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An Angry Little Boy on a Great White Horse

Trump lives for perpetual conflict and endless domination games — not a great fit for democracy.

07.03.2025 200

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We Can Achieve Great Things

Progressives, who believe in using government to do good things, have built a system that renders government incompetent.

28.02.2025 40

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Can We Please Stop Calling These People Populists?

Trumpism is not a working-class revolt against the elites. All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated...

14.02.2025 400

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The Six Principles of Stupidity

I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

31.01.2025 550

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How Trump Will Fail

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

24.01.2025 300

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We Deserve Pete Hegseth

If you thought the former TV host would be asked important questions at his confirmation hearing, you are under the illusion that we live in a serious...

17.01.2025 950

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The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be

The word “faith” implies the possession of something, whereas I experience faith as a yearning for something beautiful that I can sense but not...

25.12.2024 550

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The Moral Challenge of Trumpism

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist I admire Mitt Romney. He is, by all accounts, an outstanding husband and...

29.11.2024 200

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Why We Got It So Wrong

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Let me ask you a few questions: If the Democrats nominated a woman to run...

15.11.2024 200

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Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we...

07.11.2024 200

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The Election Is Happening Too Soon

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had...

25.10.2024 30

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Why the Heck Isn’t She Running Away With This?

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Two big things baffle me about this election. The first is: Why are the...

18.10.2024 100

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How Harris Can Finish Strong

Some tips from novelists and screenwriters on how to keep audiences’ attention.

11.10.2024 550

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A Recipe for a Striving America

The question is not whether to do industrial policy, but how.

04.10.2024 60

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How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist American culture changes with astonishing speed. Nearly every decade,...

13.09.2024 100

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The Junkification of American Life

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Back in February, the music historian Ted Gioia wrote an essay on the...

06.09.2024 300

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How Trump Wins (and Harris and the Democrats Blow It)

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist It’s Nov. 6, 2024, the morning after Election Day. The people in the...

04.09.2024 6

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You’re Only as Smart as Your Emotions

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist If I were asked to list the major intellectual breakthroughs of the last...

16.08.2024 60

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A.I. Can Be a Force for Good

Machines are no match for the human brain.

31.07.2024 10

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The Kamala Harris Report Card

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist At the beginning of 2019 I wrote a column enthusiastically arguing that...

26.07.2024 70

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What Democrats Need to Do Now

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist, reporting from Milwaukee In 2016, MAGA was just a slogan — or at best a...

19.07.2024 40

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The Deep Source of Trump’s Appeal

Advertisement Supported by David Brooks By David Brooks Opinion Columnist There was an extraordinary story in Politico this week. A group of...

12.07.2024 200

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