On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to calls for gun control in the wake of the Jacksonville shooting and attempts to blame the shooting on Florida’s gun laws by stating that because there are already
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that scheduling 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s federal trial over the 2020 election is “irresponsible” and will make it “impossible for any other Republican candidate to
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Democrats are not grateful enough for what they have,” with President Joe Biden, who “has presided over an incredibly strong economic recovery,” “whose numbers will go up as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republicans have shifted their position on climate legislation in part because they’re more pro-manufacturing than they were before but they’ve taken an “extreme position” on the issue. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while deep distrust of the government “probably is justified” by the government’s behavior, looking at D.C.’s “glorious and inspiring buildings, and thinking, that’s full of monsters, all that’s
A New York Times columnist is escaping from the establishment’s bubble, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s D.C. lobbyist is trying to scare him back inside.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks acknowledged that by implementing its abortion travel policy, “The Pentagon made a policy choice. It’s based on a set of philosophies.” But argued that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) holding promotions
David Brooks stated that while sometimes content has to be removed from social media, he doesn’t trust big tech or government working with big tech behind closed doors to be in charge of this.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the decision by the Biden administration to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is an indication that “there are no other munitions to send” to Ukraine and that military
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with transferring student loan debt, “there’s no way” President Joe Biden’s plan was constitutional and President Joe Biden and other Democrats had that concern at
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Supreme Court’s decision that Colorado cannot force a website designer to create messages that support same-sex marriage was a choice between “artistic expression against nondiscrimination,” and the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he finds “the use of the word ‘woke’ offensive” but “the educational schools where teachers go to get trained are overwhelmingly progressive, unrepresentative of the country, and they’re spreading
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “Hunter Biden was playing on the family name” and while he doesn’t think President Joe Biden was involved in Hunter trading on the family name and Hunter’s claim in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while institutions aren’t fundamentally corrupt, “our institutions are frail and faltering,” but they are “worthy of respect. And a lot of the people who are prosecutors in the Department of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks President Joe Biden’s staff overprotects him and that the President should be out in public more. Brooks also said that from what he hears from inside
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t think doing budgeting through negotiations over the debt ceiling is the best way to do things, “this is the only mechanism we seem to have,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is currently not a sense among the American people that the border is being controlled and that the Biden administration has pivoted its immigration position toward the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks defended giving 2024 presidential candidate former President Donald Trump a live platform — like CNN did in a town hall earlier this week — by arguing that the media’s job
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden will change course and negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, and that while he doesn’t think there should be conditions attached to raising the debt ceiling, “the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he likes President Joe Biden’s soul of America messaging because the election is a contrast “between a moral vision and an amoral realism” that is represented in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the White House has to be concerned that President Joe Biden is facing fairly close 2024 presidential election polling and an approval rating below 50% despite “improving inflation,”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the John Edwards case — where prosecutors were unable to secure a conviction — is the case that has the most similarity to the New York case against former President
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “We’re in the middle of a cold war with China” and technology like TikTok is “the battlefield” in this cold war. Brooks said, “We’re in the middle of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the federal government wouldn’t have been so quick to act if Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was located outside of Silicon Valley and the federal government acted so quickly
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal budget has the same sort of reliance on low interest rates that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had and this is especially a problem since “inflation is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with the part of President Joe Biden’s student loan program for Pell Grant recipients, the Supreme Court should strike the program down because the President
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he does think expanding the child tax credit worked, there isn’t the political will for it because, in addition to a general distrust of government programs that
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes “For sure” that the war between Russia and Ukraine will go on for another year, but the West will remain strong in support of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while President Joe Biden’s exchange with Congressional Republicans over entitlement spending during the State of the Union made Democrats happy, “there was no shot” Republicans were ever going to support
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the classified documents story has gotten worse for the White House because we know “they were hoping to deep-six it so it would never come out.” And the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats need to have a plan to raise the debt ceiling that offers concessions to Republicans because of the leverage held by the “nihilistic wing” of the party
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Republicans in the House will want to attach certain provisions, like a balanced budget amendment as an example, to any plan to increase the country’s debt ceiling over the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the teachers’ unions deserve coal for Christmas for the increases in inequality, harm to social mobility, and harm to “the lifelong prospects of a generation of young people”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain deserves credit for the “good year” that President Joe Biden and the White House have had. Host Judy Woodruff
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he thinks it’s a good thing that a government shutdown is likely to be avoided, the government has just been passing “emergency spending bills that seem to
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes the prisoner swap for Brittney Griner was the right thing to do, but it does show the U.S. will free bad people to get American citizens home, but
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal government intervening to prevent a rail strike will give companies an advantage in negotiations and creates a moral hazard like the bank bailouts in 2008 and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that voters in the 2022 midterm elections said that “we don’t like the Democrats,” but at the end of the day, the best summary is that the voters “preferred a party that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he likes elections because instead of the media controlling the conversation, like they do most of the time, “a lot of people get to control the conversation.” And
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “immigration is just a huge void for the Democratic Party. They do not have a clean story to tell. They do not have a policy that makes people