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
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even after reading news articles about the struggles of U.S. Senate candidate and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), “I was unprepared for how much he was struggling.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “a lot of Democrats,” “for too long” told voters, “here’s what you should care about, democracy and Dobbs. These are the major issues.” And when the voters responded
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats have failed “to show they have some credibility” on crime or to demonstrate that “Democratic mayors can keep the streets safe.” Brooks said, “I do think there
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he doubts anything coming out of the January 6 Committee will have much of an impact on the upcoming midterm elections because people are “voting on their own
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that we’re not in a situation like the Cuban Missile Crisis and he gets the impression that the Biden administration views the prospect of Russia deploying nuclear weapons as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there isn’t anything President Joe Biden can do about gas prices going up in the wake of OPEC+’s decision to cut its oil production, Biden “tried” to keep
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the election results in Italy and Sweden send “a big message for Joe Biden, you’ve got to control the borders. Americans like immigration, but they want control of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while current weather patterns are alarming and it’s lamentable that climate change discussions have become partisan, combatting climate change requires worldwide, collective action, and he’s “not too optimistic”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he didn’t have any problem with President Joe Biden giving a speech on threats to democracy “he should have called out his own party” for spending millions of dollars
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the Biden White House pointing to Republican members of Congress who got Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans forgiven to respond to criticism of its student loan program is wrong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation program is “too politically designed, not economically designed.” And the measure is Democrats “feeding their base. And part of their base happens
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the abortion vote in Kansas is “a vindication of the voters,” that if people have “actual choices, as opposed to extremes in state legislatures, most of the states, the vast
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that inflation is “truly terrible” and the Biden White House “is being too gentle about talking about it, too upbeat” in its rhetoric about inflation. He also said that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had “an intellectual awakening” where he realized that the idea that spending on climate change is inflationary “was just economically wrong”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there are things like promoting nuclear power and natural gas that can help the environment and can actually get passed. He also stated, “You can scream, and you
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is “a giant gap between what a lot of Democrats want to talk about and what the whole rest of the country wants to talk about.” Because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “turned out to be 100% right” about inflation while “other Democrats, turned out to be 100% wrong.” And that you can argue that Manchin
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections will be decided based on economic issues unless there is some dramatic change in the economy and that voters tend to be more in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even a ban on future purchases of guns would not reduce the number of guns in America and that reducing the number of guns in America would require something akin
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the regulatory authority of the EPA by stating that he believes there’s a “sound principle” that as much policy as possible should be
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections are ultimately going to be about the state of the economy and not abortion. Brooks stated that the lasting electoral impact of the court’s
During Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks elaborated on his criticisms of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee, which he had suggested in a recent Times column as being too political.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there should be a distinction between “defensive gun use,” like people using firearms for self-defense and the “offensive use” of firearms for murder and that “a lot of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that regulations on firearms such as assault weapons bans and other kinds of regulations have been shown by research to have an “underwhelming” effectiveness “in actually preventing violence and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it’s possible to persuade some people by rephrasing gun control as “gun regulation. Like, we have driving regulation, we have cars, and we regulate the cars.” And stated that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it would be a good thing if the Supreme Court ignored public opinion on Roe v. Wade in coming to a decision on abortion because the Supreme Court’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that in an ideal world, if the abortion issue is put to state legislatures, “we would wind up where Europe is” on abortion “where they say, there are strong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Roe v. Wade was always a “fragile” ruling and pointed out that former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed similar concerns about the decision back in 1992.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats are facing poor poll numbers because “the whole zeitgeist of the country has deteriorated over the last year. And I would say it’s been a threat of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that even though China’s new security deal with the Solomon Islands shows “China’s on the move.” The Biden administration deserves credit for being “very focused on China.” He also
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Western Europe is not just following the U.S.” in pushing back against Russian aggression, and “in many important ways, they’re leading the way.” Brooks said, “Well, the U.S.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while there is inflation taking place everywhere in the world, America’s inflation numbers are “significantly higher” than the numbers in most of the other comparable countries and this
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the number of people trying to come to the U.S. is “probably beyond our capacity to absorb all the people who want to come.” And the current numbers
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases “never” work and he is “guardedly skeptical” that President Joe Biden’s plan to release from the SPR “is going to do much” to lower
