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We Are Being Governed by Unserious People

We Are Being Governed by Unserious People

Kristi Noem epitomizes the incompetence of this White House

09.03.2026 20

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The Television Show Every American Should Watch

An emergency room that’s a mirror.

23.02.2026 900

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I Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt

Insult everyone. Answer for nothing.

16.02.2026 1000

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Hey Republicans: Trump Is the President

Trump’s advisers are terrible. That’s not the problem.

02.02.2026 100

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Rahm Emanuel Will Speak to You Now

A Democratic insider with an outside chance at the White House

26.01.2026 20

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Trump’s Victory Wobble

A fading president obsesses over leaving a mark.

12.01.2026 30

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The Best Sentences of 2025

Savor the words that made sense of our world.

29.12.2025 100

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Susie Wiles and the Intoxication of Power

There are no wallflowers in Trump’s White House.

22.12.2025 100

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Trump’s Superlatives Are Bigger Than Yours

The president is getting a lesson in the limits of grade inflation.

15.12.2025 70

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Is Sleepy Donald the New ‘Sleepy Joe’?

Trump’s travails look more and more like Biden’s.

08.12.2025 7

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This Holiday Season, Give the Gift That Keeps on Sniffing

A North Carolina organization delivers salvation on four legs.

01.12.2025 10

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The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump

Aren’t his apologists exhausted by their moral calisthenics?

24.11.2025 30

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A Democratic Senate Majority? That’s Not an Impossible Dream.

The path is more promising than you think.

17.11.2025 6

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For Shame, North Carolina. For Shame.

Republicans aren’t just gerrymandering my state. They’re erasing its political identity.

27.10.2025 20

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What JD Vance, Kash Patel and a Throw Pillow Have in Common

Trump’s flatterers are sacrificing more than just their dignity.

20.10.2025 10

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The Appalling Campaign to Erase Jan. 6 Never Ends

Trump and his Republican minions won’t rest until the truth of that day is buried.

13.10.2025 10

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Trump’s Shutdown Glee Could Come Back to Bite Him

Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.

06.10.2025 8

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Will We Follow Trump to Fantasyland?

We’ve traveled far beyond political spin.

08.09.2025 10

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The Unchecked, Unbalanced Reign of King Donald

Is our vaunted system really safe from the shameless likes of Trump?

01.09.2025 100

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Trump Isn’t Fixing America’s Campuses. He’s Bleeding Them Dry.

Take it from an eyewitness: Our colleges don’t deserve this.

25.08.2025 10

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Give Trump a Nobel! And an Emmy. And an Oscar …

If we bedeck him more, maybe he’ll bedevil us less.

18.08.2025 20

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Sydney Sweeney Has a Secret

Her talent is extraordinary. But it’s eclipsed in a culture that values attention over artistry.

11.08.2025 10

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November 2026 Is Everything

For America to survive Trump, Democrats must prevail in the midterms.

28.07.2025 10

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Regret, Thy Name Is Hawley. And Murkowski. And Musk.

The price of pleasing Trump grows steeper.

21.07.2025 20

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I’m Watching the Sacrifice of College’s Soul

The highest ideals of higher ed are under mortal threat.

14.07.2025 30

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Now You See Josh Hawley, Now You Don’t

The Missouri senator’s evasions expose a disgraced Senate.

07.07.2025 20

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The (Gaudy) Tie That Binds Trump and Bezos

They’re champion exhibitionists in a culture made for that.

30.06.2025 10

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Trump Goes to War. And These Are His Advisers?

There are slim odds the president is getting the best counsel possible about Iran.

23.06.2025 10

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The Old Man and the iPhone

Our modern conveniences are exhaustingly inconvenient.

23.05.2025 10

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Nasty MAGA Infighting Means Trouble for Trump

Live by the Loomer, die by the Loomer.

16.05.2025 10

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Five Pencils for You. Infinite Luxuries for the Trumps.

Americans skimp while their president splurges.

09.05.2025 9

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Trump’s Crackerjack Cabinet Is a Fiasco Foretold

Pete Hegseth & Co. weren’t chosen for their competence.

27.03.2025 5

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Why Trump Can’t Quit Biden

Smearing his predecessor is inoculation from his own incompetence.

21.03.2025 9

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‘He Has to Shrink Away From Greatness’: The Poignant Surrender of a Republican Under Trump

It is very hard to be principled, independent or any of those other bygone adjectives in today’s G.O.P.

15.03.2025 30

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America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid

Trump’s attack on higher education and scientific research undermines some of our most competitive advantages.

13.03.2025 20

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The Chump in Trump

In his telling, all the world’s a con, and Americans merely marks.

07.03.2025 10

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Susan Collins and Her Cowardly Caucus Bow Down to Trump

No nominee — not Kennedy, not Gabbard — is a provocateur too far for Senate Republicans.

13.02.2025 20

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The Blue Devils Made Me Do It

What I learned at my first-ever Duke-U.N.C. basketball game.

06.02.2025 10

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When Did Brains Fall So Far Out of Fashion?

Blunt language and brute force are the currencies of the MAGA moment.

31.01.2025 30

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Trump Takes a Red Pen to History

The president’s Jan. 6 pardons mark a terrifying new chapter in blurring the past.

24.01.2025 5

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Republicans in North Carolina Are Treading a Terrifying Path

They’re trying to overturn a fair election. Gee, who gave them that idea?

18.01.2025 10

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What if Trump Doesn’t Need to Keep Any of His Promises?

For the 47th president, illusion is the new accountability.

25.12.2024 10

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Oh, to Smell Like Trump

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Frank Bruni Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than...

13.12.2024 3

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