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Biden Has a Big Problem
With Younger Voters

OPINION

Apr 24, 2024 12:50 PM CDT

Biden Has a Big Problem With Younger Voters

David Brooks is worried about lack of enthusiasm, potential trouble at convention

(Newser) - David Brooks says he still thinks President Biden is the Democrats' strongest candidate for president, but he's getting more pessimistic about his chances of beating Donald Trump in November. For starters, Brooks writes at the New York Times , many voters simply prefer Republicans "on key issues like inflation...

NYT Columnist Ridiculed for $78 Burger Claim

David Brooks Posts a
Burger Picture, Chaos Ensues

David Brooks Posts a Burger Picture, Chaos Ensues

Restaurant at Newark Airport pushes back at 'NYT' columnist's suspiciously high tab

(Newser) - David Brooks' op-eds for the New York Times have raised eyebrows before , but it was a tweet about his recent airport meal, and an insinuation about the US economy under President Biden , that put the newspaper columnist on the radar this week. That post has since gone viral, and the...

GOP's Recent Boost May Boil Down to 'Clearer Narrative'

Dems Had
the Momentum.
It's Seemingly
Vanished

OPINION

Oct 21, 2022 11:53 AM CDT

Dems Had the Momentum. It's Seemingly Vanished

David Brooks takes a pre-midterms look at why

(Newser) - Over the summer, Democrats seemed poised to ride a wave of momentum into the midterms, thanks to falling gas prices, a public outcry on gun safety after the mass shooting in Uvalde, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But "the momentum didn't survive the fall," writes...

We're Ignoring 'Lookism,'
and It Isn't Right

OPINION

Jun 25, 2021 7:42 AM CDT

We're Ignoring 'Lookism,' and It Isn't Right

Writing for the 'NYT,' David Brooks takes on discrimination against the unattractive

(Newser) - Sexism and racism are bad, but there's another "ism" that David Brooks is concerned about, and one for which there doesn't seem to be much legal recourse: "lookism," the term Brooks uses in his newest op-ed for the New York Times to describe "prejudice...

Springsteen's
Joyful
Takes
on Aging

longform

Oct 26, 2020 7:30 PM CDT

Springsteen's Joyful Takes on Aging

David Brooks sees lessons in new album's looks back and ahead

(Newser) - At age 71, Bruce Springsteen has released a new album that's receiving praise from reviewers and fans as, remarkably, one of his best. Letter to You, which is accompanied by a streaming film, is largely a look back, built around the closeness of the E Street Band, David Brooks...

David Brooks Really Doesn't
Want Sanders to Win

OPINION

Feb 28, 2020 2:46 PM CST

David Brooks Really Doesn't Want Sanders to Win

But a critic says his 'freakout' op-ed isn't grounded in actual evidence

(Newser) - David Brooks feels pretty strongly that Bernie Sanders should not win the Democratic nomination, let alone the White House. The not-so-subtle clue is the headline to his op-ed in the New York Times : "No, Not Sanders, Not Ever." Brooks is generally conservative, but he wrote a previous column...

David Brooks' New Column Has People a Little Puzzled

Brooks Channels a 'Fanatic,'
and People Are Confused

Sep 6, 2019 1:23 PM CDT

Brooks Channels a 'Fanatic,' and People Are Confused

'New York Times' columnist is out with a memorable one

(Newser) - The latest column by David Brooks in the New York Times is out, and it's ... something. The headline: "And Now, a Word From a Fanatic." Brooks' own tweeted description: "Every ideological disease of the current moment thrown into one column!" The first paragraph,which fans...

David Brooks: This Mess
Goes Back to Watergate

OPINION

Mar 26, 2019 12:02 PM CDT

David Brooks: This Mess Goes Back to Watergate

Columnist says that scandal has led to the current political climate of constant scandals

(Newser) - In a New York Times op-ed, David Brooks writes that apologies are needed in the wake of the Mueller report —from both sides. Among Democrats, he names Rep. Adam Schiff and Beto O'Rouke as examples of those who predicted proof of collusion. "If you call someone a...

David Brooks Changes
His Mind on Reparations

OPINION

Mar 8, 2019 2:50 PM CST

David Brooks Changes His Mind on Reparations

'Times' columnist thinks they might be the only way to heal the race divide

(Newser) - Five years ago, one of the most prominent black pundits, Ta-Nehisi Coates, made the case that the US should pay reparations to African-Americans over slavery. At the time, New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is white, was skeptical. "What about the recent African immigrants?" he recalls thinking. "...

Trump May Be Exactly Right
on the Russia Investigation

OPINION

Jun 20, 2017 8:25 AM CDT

Trump May Be Exactly Right on the Russia Investigation

David Brooks, no fan of the president, is underwhelmed by the evidence

(Newser) - David Brooks isn't a fan of Donald Trump, but the president might be thrilled to read his column in the New York Times on Tuesday. Brooks makes the case that the Trump-Russia investigations are overblown. "There may be a giant revelation still to come," he writes, but...

David Brooks: Get Over the Sins of the Past, Ta-Nehisi

OPINION

Jul 17, 2015 12:02 PM CDT

David Brooks: Get Over the Sins of the Past, Ta-Nehisi

Calls Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'rejection of American dream' in new book 'disturbing'

(Newser) - Everyone is talking about Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book , Between the World and Me, including New York Times columnist David Brooks. In an op-ed published today, written letter-style to Coates in the same way Coates addressed his book to his 14-year-old son, Brooks acknowledges that "the last year has been...

New, Moderate
Conservatives Are Coming

OPINION

Jan 10, 2014 3:25 PM CST

New, Moderate Conservatives Are Coming

David Brooks sees a rising movement willing to accept policy solutions

(Newser) - You wouldn't know it to listen to Republican politicians, but there's a new eminently reasonable brand of conservatism brewing, based on the principle of "skeptical reform," writes David Brooks at the New York Times . Current Republicans have defined themselves as anti-government, leaving them "no governing...

NYT, Greenwald Go
Mano a Mano—in NYT

OPINION

Oct 28, 2013 1:23 PM CDT

NYT, Greenwald Go Mano a Mano—in NYT

Exchange with Bill Keller focuses on objectivity, sideswipes David Brooks

(Newser) - Glenn Greenwald thinks the New York Times is a "nationalistic" source that has printed "quite toxic smears of government critics without any accountability," and you could learn that by reading today's New York Times . Columnist Bill Keller had a very lengthy back-and-forth with Greenwald about...

State of the Union
Advice for Obama

OPINION Roundup

Feb 12, 2013 1:59 PM CST

State of the Union Advice for Obama

Pundits urge Obama to think big, articulate a vision

(Newser) - President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address tonight, and every pundit out there has an opinion on how he should approach it. A sampling of the day's top unsolicited advice:

"It may be tempting to list a series of measures Obama wants Congress to pass,

...

We're Losing on
Immigration; We Need More

David Brooks

Feb 1, 2013 1:50 PM CST

We're Losing on Immigration; We Need More

David Brooks says the economic case is impossible to refute

(Newser) - In a world of difficult issues, immigration is a blessedly simple one, writes David Brooks of the New York Times . "The forlorn pundit doesn’t even have to make the humanitarian case that immigration reform would be a great victory for human dignity. The cold economic case by itself...

How Republicans
Can Avert the
Fiscal Cliff

david brooks

Dec 4, 2012 12:19 PM CST

How Republicans Can Avert the Fiscal Cliff

Ending tax cuts for richest could ultimately benefit GOP: David Brooks

(Newser) - It's time for Republicans to face it: The Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans will have to end. If the "fiscal cliff" isn't avoided, the GOP will get the blame , and leaders in both business and national security will be furious. So they should accept an...

The Sad Death of Green Tech

David Brooks

Oct 19, 2012 1:10 PM CDT

The Sad Death of Green Tech

David Brooks laments the fall of the bipartisan green revolution

(Newser) - Back in 2003, green technology looked like the future, and a bipartisan consensus was forming around it. David Brooks recalls getting a ride in Prius from a conservative foreign policy hawk, who touted it as an antidote to foreign oil dependency. "From that date on, the story begins to...

What Happened
to the GOP's
Intellect?

brooks, cohen

Sep 25, 2012 1:52 PM CDT

What Happened to the GOP's Intellect?

Don't blame Romney for devolving party: Richard Cohen, David Brooks

(Newser) - Conservative commentators have been complaining lately about a struggling Romney campaign—but it's the Republican Party itself that's the "real problem," writes Richard Cohen in the Washington Post . "While Ronald Reagan had to beat out a star-studded field for his GOP nomination, Mitt Romney "...

Did '47%' Video
Cost Mitt the
Election?

OPINION roundup

Sep 18, 2012 10:40 AM CDT

Did '47%' Video Cost Mitt the Election?

Pundits analyze Romney's income tax assertion

(Newser) - Leaked video of a May Mitt Romney fundraiser—in which the candidate calls half the country self-proclaimed 'victims' —has the pundits swarming, with some saying it just might cost him the election. Here's what they're saying:

The video "has killed Mitt Romney's campaign for

...

Why Election 2012 Is a Snoozer

David Brooks

Jul 31, 2012 1:04 PM CDT

Why Election 2012 Is a Snoozer

David Brooks laments the content-free, vapid 2012 race

(Newser) - Let's face it: The 2012 election may be incredibly important, but it's "incredibly boring at the same time," writes David Brooks in the New York Times . And not content to leave it at that, he's come up with a lot of interconnected reasons why:

Intellectual

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