David Brooks

David Brooks has been a columnist with The New York Times since 2003. He is the author of 鈥淭he Road to Character鈥� and, most recently, 鈥淭he Second Mountain.鈥�

A homeless encampment outside City Hall in Austin, Texas, on July 1, 2021. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)

抖阴ap: Why people are fleeing blue cities for red states

April 14, 2023 at 1:47 p.m.

Population growth in Republican-led states is due mostly to low taxes. So, can we tell a simple story here: Republican policies work, Democratic policies don鈥檛? Well, not quite.

Democratic presidential candidate former US Vice ...

David Brooks: Kamala Harris knows how to win elections

October 9, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

Back in February it seemed as if we were about to have one of the most ideologically polarized elections in American history. President Donald Trump was rushing ahead with his...

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala ...

Brooks: I stand with the conservative radicals — leaders who will push for big change, defeat illiberal extremes

August 14, 2020 at 4:11 p.m.

I鈥檓 convinced that the forces that brought Joe Biden the nomination are far more powerful than a few extremists in Portland and even the leftist illiberals on campus. I鈥檓 hopeful...

Brooks: Two cheers for liberalism! (or maybe one and a half)

July 11, 2020 at 4:38 p.m.

I am a liberal in a classical Enlightenment sense, but I can鈥檛 give three cheers for liberalism, or maybe even two. I understand why so many, and so many younger...

Brooks: The first invasion of America

May 23, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

We鈥檝e had threats before, a few foreign incursions like in 1812, even pandemics when America was less just than it is today. But we鈥檝e never had them smack in the...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic candidate for president, departs a news conference in Los Angeles on March 4, a day after Super Tuesday.

Brooks: Biden鈥檚 rise gives the establishment one last chance

March 6, 2020 at 11:25 a.m.

I don鈥檛 know about you, but the election results this week filled me with more hope than I鈥檝e felt in years. It felt like somebody turning down the volume.

Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sullivan Arena at St. Anselm College on February 07, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Brooks: Why Sanders will probably win the nomination

February 21, 2020 at 4:47 p.m.

When you鈥檙e inside the Sanders myth, you see the world through the Bernie lens.

first Children's Art Exhibit at the CACE Gallery of Fine Art in Fort Morgan.
Last year's exhibit showcased unique and inspiring art from young children local Early Childhood Education programs.

Brooks: This is how Scandinavia got great

February 14, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. What really launched the Nordic nations was generations of phenomenal educational policy.

President Donald Trump delivers his State ...

Brooks: How Trump wins again

February 7, 2020 at 11:01 a.m.

Trump has cleverly reframed the election. I can see why Nancy Pelosi ripped up his State of the Union speech. It was the most effective speech of the Trump presidency.

Brooks: The future of American politics

January 31, 2020 at 10:54 a.m.

Men and women are primarily motivated by self-interest. No other partial truth has done as much damage as this one.

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