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Why Election 2012 Is a Snoozer

David Brooks

Jul 31, 2012 1:04 PM CDT

Why Election 2012 Is a Snoozer

David Brooks laments the content-free, vapid 2012 race

(Newser) - Let's face it: The 2012 election may be incredibly important, but it's "incredibly boring at the same time," writes David Brooks in the New York Times . And not content to leave it at that, he's come up with a lot of interconnected reasons why:

Intellectual

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Obama Has an
'ESPN Masculinity'

David Brooks

May 15, 2012 11:34 AM CDT

Obama Has an 'ESPN Masculinity'

That explains why he's doing so well in spite of everything: David Brooks

(Newser) - Why is the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney so close? In the New York Times , David Brooks cites a number of polls that seem to indicate Obama shouldn’t even be in the game: Americans have little faith in the economy, the country is shifting to the right,...

Online Courses
About to Change
College Forever

david brooks

May 4, 2012 11:53 AM CDT

Online Courses About to Change College Forever

David Brooks: Profs brace for 'tsunami' of Internet learning

(Newser) - Online education isn't just an "experiment" anymore. Harvard and MIT have just set aside $60 million for free online courses, and schools from Stanford to Yale are pursuing online learning. In short, "what happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education:...

The Great American Trap: Competition

David Brooks

Apr 24, 2012 12:01 PM CDT

The Great American Trap: Competition

Paypal founder shows that US instead needs 'creative monopolists'

(Newser) - Peter Thiel spent most of his life competing. He competed to get into Stanford, and then Stanford Law, and then to become a clerk for a federal judge. But it was when he lost a competition—to become a Supreme Court clerk—that Thiel became a real success, founding PayPal...

We're Stuck With
2 Minority Parties

David Brooks

Nov 22, 2011 11:14 AM CST

We're Stuck With 2 Minority Parties

The public doesn't like either, but they get election wins anyway

(Newser) - Back in 1951, a political analyst came up with the theory that at any time in America there’s a Sun Party, which drives the agenda, and a minority Moon Party that shines by reflecting its rays. But these days, “we are living in the era of two moons...

Vote Romney,
He's Boring

David Brooks

Oct 4, 2011 1:57 PM CDT

Vote Romney, He's Boring

We need a professional, not an entertainer, David Brooks argues

(Newser) - Mitt Romney is running a great campaign—he’s been good in debates, stayed on message, and “taken Rick Perry apart with a cold ruthlessness that is a wonder to behold”—yet the Republican base hasn’t warmed to him, observes David Brooks in the New York Times...

David Brooks:
Obama
Duped Me

OPINION

Sep 20, 2011 12:15 PM CDT

David Brooks: Obama Duped Me

Deficit speech doesn't sit well with president's biggest conservative fan

(Newser) - In his New York Times column today, David Brooks admits something critics have long accused him of: “I’m a sap,” he writes , “a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.” He had, for example, backed Obama's stimulus plan just days ago . But...

GOP Blowing
'No-Brainer' Compromise

David Brooks

Jul 5, 2011 1:58 PM CDT

GOP Blowing 'No-Brainer' Compromise

This is looking like a party of fanatics: David Brooks

(Newser) - Congressional Republicans have proven to be tough negotiators since entering office, and they’ve got Democrats poised to accept trillions in budget cuts in exchange for a few hundred million in closed tax loopholes, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . It’s “the mother of all-no brainers,...

Sorry, Grads:
We've Taught
You All Wrong

david brooks

May 31, 2011 11:34 AM CDT

Sorry, Grads: We've Taught You All Wrong

'Finding yourself' isn't step one

(Newser) - As another class graduates from colleges across America, David Brooks reflects on a generation “ill served by their elders”: We haven’t given them the skills to “navigate” an unpredictable world. “This year’s graduates are members of the most supervised generation in American history,” Brooks...

Our Real Problem: One-Fifth of Men Are Sitting Idle

David Brooks

May 10, 2011 1:07 PM CDT

Our Real Problem: One-Fifth of Men Are Sitting Idle

David Brooks thinks we need to spend on jobs, not health care

(Newser) - America has a big problem: Its men aren’t working. “There are probably more idle men now than at any time since the Great Depression,” writes David Brooks of the New York Times , and the problem is structural. While there are a decent number of jobs for college...

Bin Laden Was Just a Man

David Brooks

May 3, 2011 12:45 PM CDT

Bin Laden Was Just a Man

We could use an inexplicably 'good' version of him, writes David Brooks

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden was a shy boy who loved his parents. His father died at age 9. He lived in suburbia, attended an elite school, was religiously devout, and liked Bonanza and the evening news. Why all these personal facts? “Because we have a tendency to see history as...

Obama in Libya:
Wrong Words,
Right Moves

david brooks

Apr 1, 2011 1:20 PM CDT

Obama in Libya: Wrong Words, Right Moves

US pushes loyalists to defect, hopes for regime change: David Brooks

(Newser) - There’s a big gap between what the US is doing in Libya and how the administration is describing it—and while the White House’s explanation is "maddeningly ambiguous," the actual operation is right on, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Regime change is the...

Why Mitch
Daniels Should
Run in 2012

david brooks

Feb 25, 2011 11:45 AM CST

Why Mitch Daniels Should Run in 2012

He's got a handle on debt and a record of substance: David Brooks

(Newser) - Here’s a name that should be among the GOP frontrunners for 2012: Mitch Daniels. The Indiana governor says there’s an “excellent chance” he won’t run—but he “would be the party’s strongest candidate,” writes David Brooks in the New York Times . He “...

Wisconsin Budget Fight
Spawns Culture War

OPINION

Feb 24, 2011 8:00 AM CST

Wisconsin Budget Fight Spawns Culture War

Can we keep things sane in Wisconsin? ask Brooks and Collins

(Newser) - The Wisconsin budget crunch was once an issue worth debating—but Scott Walker has made it about much more than money, writes Gail Collins in a New York Times conversation with David Brooks. Now, “it’s about crushing enemies. Unions. Government programs. Abortion.” Brooks is more sympathetic to...

Lesson From Wisconsin:
Bleed Everyone

David Brooks

Feb 22, 2011 11:45 AM CST

Lesson From Wisconsin: Bleed Everyone

We need to agree to 'make everybody hurt': David Brooks

(Newser) - America is engaged in a massive fiscal battle, and nowhere is it more intense than in Wisconsin, where leaders “have done everything possible to maximize conflict,” writes David Brooks of the New York Times . On the one hand, Scott Walker was right: There’s a very good argument...

Welcome to Our
Post-Materialist World

David Brooks

Feb 15, 2011 1:41 PM CST

Welcome to Our Post-Materialist World

David Brooks: We're getting happier, but not wealthier

(Newser) - America is rapidly transforming into a post-materialist world—and that’s put a screeching halt to our economic growth, argues David Brooks of the New York Times . To prove the point, he imagines two men. The first lived from 1900 to 1974, watching the world move from horse-drawn buggies to...

Obama Should Scrap the Current Tax Code

David Brooks

Dec 3, 2010 12:37 PM CST

Obama Should Scrap the Current Tax Code

David Brooks: Starting over might actually unite both parties

(Newser) - Barack Obama shouldn’t worry about tweaking the current tax system—he should try to replace it, writes David Brooks of the New York Times . In Brooks’ vision, Obama would go before the American people and end the Bush tax cut debate. “I have my own views,” he...

How Obama Can Win Again

OPINION

Oct 29, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

How Obama Can Win Again

David Brooks offers a four-step plan to win over the center

(Newser) - The president is set for a bruising on Tuesday, but he can come back, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Here’s how: first, “win back independents,” who have swung Republican lately. Second, he must “redefine himself” as “a traditionalist on social matters and...

Hey GOP, Government Isn't Always Bad

DAVID BROOKS

Sep 14, 2010 1:23 PM CDT

Hey GOP, Government Isn't Always Bad

Party's reflexive small-government views will hurt US

(Newser) - Tea Partiers and other critics of government largesse have made the Republican party ascendant just two years after its cause seemed hopeless. A clear purpose helps, and Republicans have it: stop the expansion of government. Return the country to its free-market roots. But this is a dangerous oversimplification of American...

If Obama Could
Do It All Over...

David Brooks

Sep 3, 2010 1:35 PM CDT

If Obama Could Do It All Over...

He wouldn't have focused on stimulus, health care

(Newser) - Democrats appear headed for a big November defeat, but it didn’t have to be this way. In today’s New York Times , David Brooks imagines an alternate history, in which Obama took a wiser path. In December 2008, as his staff was clamoring to recreate the New Deal, “...