Thom Tillis is on some tear. If only more Republican lawmakers would follow . . . my newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Anyone who thinks the coming midterms will proceed in a normal fashion, in accordance with normal rules, isn't paying attention. That and more in this week's @nytopinion.nytimes.com edition of The Conversation >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

For acquaintances who are longtime journalists looking to pivot/try something new: Duke University, where I teach, is looking for another full professor for the media/journalism wing of the public policy school. Applications due early March, academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31624

Great to see Duke taking this role in improving higher ed worldwide. This article explains how leaders in higher ed can contribute ideas and get involved >>> provost.duke.edu/news/duke-la...

“During Trump’s first administration, he had minders,” writes Frank Bruni. “For his second, he wanted a pep squad.”
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Alex Pretti and Renee Good aren’t dead because of some "bad advice" given to Trump. They’re dead because of bad men acting out the script that a bad president wrote for them. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com newsletter, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

I always enjoy talking with Andy, even when we range across terrifying terrain: Trump on Greenland, Trump vis-a-vis Minneapolis, Trump as the midterms approach . . . but then these are terrifying times.

North Carolina is emphatically, undeniably, intensely purple -- and a new map could give Republicans 11 of our 14 House seats. Some democracy we have here. My newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...

Is Trump's vanity an excessively chronicled distraction -- or the toxic root of almost all that's wrong with how he governs? Bret Stephens and I discuss, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Not so long ago, I couldn't have imagined reading a sentence like this: "In the afternoon, officials confiscated the Pentagon press badges of hundreds of journalists, including mine." Great, sad, scary article: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Will chat with Rep. Ro Khanna at Duke on Mon., Nov. 10. If you're in or near the Raleigh-Durham area, please join us for this free, in-person-only event; the congressman is game for audience questions. Details, including registration: provost.duke.edu/independent-....

Since I entered academia, friends constantly ask about my students' POLITICS. But what's more striking is my students' HYDRATION. This is one soggy crew, as I explain in the final section of my NYTimes newsletter this week >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

This chewy postmortem on postmortems illustrates that two of the greatest biases in media aren't about left or right; they're about echoing the chorus of the moment and about finding a story and selling it boldly, no matter its actual subtlety. Worth reading >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...