Frank Bruni
Contributor at The New York Times
Author, "The Age of Grievance" (https://t.co/qXUcWDtyEY); Duke professor; @nytimes writer (https://t.co/K3mtbdfv8n)
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
Around the same time last week that President Trump decreed two dolls to be plenty for a child in our tariff-turvy country, his son Eric was many time zones away, supping at the trough of excess. In gilded Dubai, he for a $1 billion, 80-story Trump International Hotel and Tower there. That characteristically understated edifice - with what Eric called "the tallest swimming pool in the world" - will undoubtedly make the Trump patriarch and the Trump progeny shine richer than ever.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
One of the few occasions recently when I felt confidence in Democrats' ability to counter Donald Trump was Senator Elissa Slotkin's response to his address to a joint session of Congress in early March. After Trump bloviated for 100 minutes, Slotkin for about 10. She kept it simple. The president, she said, was failing on three crucial fronts - the economy, national security and democracy. She presented the evidence. Suggested alternatives. Said good night. That was all.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
"Who am I to judge?"Pope Francis uttered those words in July 2013, just four and a half months into his papacy, when he was asked about gay priests, and the remark was greeted by some observers as a revelation and revolution. At long last, the Roman Catholic Church's formal disapproval and hypocritical denunciations of gay men and lesbians might be coming to a close. But it wasn't that simple. The church's dealings with gay people are never that simple.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
Other presidents have used televised meetings in the Oval Office to strike noble poses. President Trump is using them to strike sadistic ones. I'll never shake the scene of him and Vice President JD Vance taunting and berating President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in February for his inconvenient resistance to Russia's invasion of his country.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
In Mother Jones, Tim Murphy took on Elon Musk's hypersensitivity and, as a State Supreme Court election last week illustrated, vulnerability: "In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a 'glass jaw.' The term 'keyboard warrior' comes to mind.
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RT @SALASeries: @FrankBruni, journalist, author, & professor, analyzes the forces shaping American culture. He joined @DalenCuff and @McNut…
As Nov. 5 grows smaller in smaller in the rearview mirror, its consequences loom larger and larger. @AndyOstroy and I look at the road ahead.
.@nytimes writer, author, and public policy professor @FrankBruni's back in THE BACK ROOM discussing his latest columns about the recent #election, what Democrats must do going forward, and how it all may impact who the 2028 candidates might be https://t.co/m8rOAy19bD https://t.co/JtT9WKLaSr
In few if any states has the 2024 election been a wilder ride than in my home of North Carolina. Here's my essay for @NYTOpinion about how this purple patch of 16 juicy Electoral College votes looks and feels as we await the results >>> https://t.co/l9zjrvX9Hg