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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 Julianne...
DATE: Nov. 17, 2019 | COLUMN: Nicholas Kristof
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 tweet...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2019 | COLUMN: Ross Douthat
It is hard to believe that the end of the year is approaching, but the chilly temperatures, snow on the mountains and the fact that we are in budget season for 2020 all prove that it’s true. As we...
DATE: Nov. 15, 2019 | UPDATED: 1 day 14 hours ago | COLUMN: From the Chair
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 days of...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2019 | UPDATED: 2 days 13 hours ago | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
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 dime...
DATE: Nov. 13, 2019 | COLUMN: Tim Egan
In response to recent federal rollbacks of air quality safeguards, Colorado must act boldly and swiftly to adopt the next generation of methane and air pollution standards to protect air quality...
DATE: Nov. 10, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 that al-Baghdadi died...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Frank Bruni
In 1994, Disney’s “The Lion King” was in theaters and on its way to become one of the most popular films in the world. Today, 25 years later, “The Lion King” is still in theaters, only revamped and...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 California...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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. The...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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 care....
DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
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 Scorsese’s...
DATE: Nov. 3, 2019 | COLUMN: Ross Douthat
