
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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
It was easy to miss amid the tragicomedy of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's security breach, President Trump's musings about an unconstitutional third term and the sensory assault that is Elon Musk, but last week Trump signed an executive order as potentially chilling as any of the many others. It concerned elections. More accurately, it concerned his determination to shape them in his favor.
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4 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
Who could have imagined it? That Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of all peacocks would commit an egregious error in judgment, display a complete lack of professionalism and be sloppy enough to divulge war plans in a group chat that included a prominent journalist? Sure, there were reports of Hegseth's gross mismanagement of the veterans' groups that he once led. There were accusations of public drunkenness and a violent temper.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni
For President Trump and many of his closest aides and allies, every day is a great day to beat up on Joe Biden. They treat bashing the previous occupant of the White House as proper political hygiene, best repeated and ritualized, the autocrat's equivalent of flossing your teeth. Even so, Trump outdid himself last weekend.
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1 month ago |
businessandamerica.com | Frank Bruni
Tillis wobbles. In the run-up to the Senate’s vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, according to detailed accounts in both The Times and The Wall Street Journal, Tillis privately expressed serious misgivings about Hegseth’s character and worked vigorously behind the scenes to scuttle the nomination before the full Senate had to consider it. He failed. On the day of decision, three Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell — voted no.
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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