It was amusing -- if appalling -- to watch David Brooks yesterday declare that Sarah Palin is a "joke" and only qualified to be a TV "talk show host." During the 2008 campaign he believed the same thing but refused to put it in print.
John Zogby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In a recent New York Times piece, David Brooks divided the electorate into liberals, conservatives and independents. This view mistakes a lack of party affiliation for ideological innocence.
Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media
The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
If recent polling is any indication, people don't want to be associated with the party that elevates the self-satirical wackaloons. Especially when they refuse to be honest about who they are.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?
Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
After the summer of townhalls and what's shaping up as the autumn of Glenn Beck, it is hard to see things through David Brooks' bifocals.
New York Times | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The t...
J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.
Robert Slayton | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?
Scott Kurashige | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.
Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media
Are New York Times readers, and ESPN viewers really well-served by commentaries that essentially boil down to, "Don't be rude; it's not really helpful to anyone?"
David Fiderer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
A lot of people buy in to Brooks' pseudo-intellectual shtick for making grand pronouncements that presume to define reality.
James Campion | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
It is a speech Obama should have given three months ago. It was nothing more than a pep talk, a call to arms. What was needed was a final summation.
John Kenneth White | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Is Obama in deep trouble? Not as much as people think thanks to changing demographics. Republicans have stubbornly refused to recognize this new demography, preferring instead to fondly remember the old days.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
There's no ambiguity about it. The public option is resoundingly popular, fiscally conservative and morally sound. It's centrist, it's liberal, it's conservative. Unless you don't believe in, you know, numbers.
David Moore | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
When forced to express an opinion specifically about Obama's plan, most poll respondents will. But if permitted, they will also admit that they really don't know much about it.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Obama put his persuasive power on hold while he got sucked into an insider negotiation with Congressional centrists -- and has been unable to make a morally compelling case for his agenda.
The New Republic | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
These days, the center-right Brooks frequently seems more sympathetic toward Obama than the liberal Paul Krugman. He has written columns praising Obam...
Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Americans are addicted to health care. They demand more and more of it, at any cost, whatever the consequences.
New York Times | DAVID BROOKS | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor s...
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media