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Author, "The Age of Grievance" (); Duke professor; @nytimes writer ()

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@FrankBruni
Frank Bruni
5 years
This Doral madness is a gesture of such perverse defiance, such profound contempt, that it takes the breath away. What next? Trump won’t stop here.
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4 years
Americans die by the thousands, and Trump gloats about his television audience. They face financial ruin, and he chides governors for inadequate adulation. This is more than a failure of empathy. It’s a failure of basic humanity. My column >>>
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4 years
Please tell me why I should care whether Joe Biden is declining mentally when Donald Trump bottomed out morally long ago. I’m serious. I’d rather drink milk past its expiration date than arsenic. My column >>>
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8 years
I don't need daughters or a wife to find Donald Trump appallling. I just need a conscience. My column,
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5 years
To say that Pete Buttigieg doesn't come across as especially gay is to buy into stereotypes that we should be long past.
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4 years
If I hear one more disgruntled, Biden-blasé Democrat tell me that he & Trump are almost equally unappealing, my head will explode. The difference between 4 more years of Trump & 4 years of Biden is everything. Their speeches perfectly demonstrated that.”
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6 years
Mystery solved: They ALL wrote the Op-Ed. It's a White House remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."
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4 years
To Pete Buttigieg’s many other virtues, add these: He’s not delusional, and he can see beyond himself. He demonstrated that today. #ThankYouPete >>>
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4 years
Americans who take any comfort from the nightly "briefings" were Trump-drunk long ago. The un-besotted see and hear the president for what he is: a tone-deaf showman who regards everything, even a mountain of corpses, as a stage. My column >>>
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8 years
Donald Trump has more than met his match in Michelle Obama, octopus slayer. My column,
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4 years
Another night, another overwrought aria of self-congratulation and self-pity from President Trump. It's surreal -- and utterly repugnant -- how self-obsessed he remains in the midst of a once-in-a-generation crisis. No, it's heartbreaking.
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5 years
It's not a scientific poll, but the enthusiasm of @PeteButtigieg fans here at the Iowa Steak Fry, where the Democratic field is gathered today, stands out.
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6 years
On an Amtrak train today, a woman hadn't struggled with her suitcase for 5 seconds when a nearby man in his 20s noticed, zoomed over and insisted on hoisting it for her. Two hours later, he retrieved the bag for her before she could even ask. Can he be our president?
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5 years
Actual cheating and bribes to get into the Ivy League and the Ivy-like? Having written a book about the college admissions madness, I can't say I'm surprised. But we should all be saddened and outraged. My column,
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5 years
Some of the country’s best doctors can’t tell me definitively why I ended up losing sight in my right eye, but one of my column’s readers figured it out. It’s because I’m gay. His email to me, and so many others like it, are a lesson in hate. My column >>
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6 years
That shiver down Ted Cruz’s spine? It’s Beto, whose campaign is a quirky Texas marvel. My column,
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5 years
“It takes a lot of spine to be a centrist in America today. You get whacked from the left and whacked from the right. That’s my life. I get whacked"--Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, in my new column,
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8 years
Dallas mayor asks that Americans "just grab each other’s arm and say we’re in this together."
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5 years
Dogs are useless to Trump. They can’t play golf with him and tell him what a manly drive he has. That’s lucky for Lindsey Graham, who would otherwise be swapped out for a Labradoodle. My column >>>
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7 years
Am having a verb issue. Please stop saying we r LOSING our standing in the world. We r SURRENDERING it. FORFEITING it.
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5 years
Regan came to live with me a few days ago, so I did what any good new dog owner would do. Took her wine shopping.
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6 years
"Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington are not bothered by heavy traffic."---former Senator Alan Simpson, eulogizing
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5 years
This wall--this speech tonight--isn't about a nation's security. It's about one man's vanity. That becomes clearer all the time. My column,
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4 years
Whatever else you make of Biden's denial of sexual assault allegation, note difference from Trump: No "woe is me" claim of persecution, no denigration of the woman, no wild speculation about motives. Planned that way, sure, but still it matters.
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Frank Bruni
4 years
Donald Trump snuffed out my confidence, flickering but real, that we could go only so low and forgive only so much. With him we went lower — or at least a damningly large percentage of us did. My essay on what we lost during this presidency >>>
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6 years
Anthony Bourdain exhorted us to savor every last morsel from the smorgasbord of life. In his memory we should do just that. My column,
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6 years
Just noticed the words at the bottom of the Google search screen. Nicely done. Thanks.
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4 years
Undertaking a bid for the White House at Buttigieg’s age indeed suggests hubris. But getting this far reflects a phenomenal work ethic, a stubborn optimism, extraordinary intelligence and preternatural poise: not bad traits for a president.
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4 years
The @NYTOpinion section asked different columnists to make the cases for different Democratic candidates. I made the case for @PeteButtigieg . It wasn't hard to do >>>
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6 years
One very big problem with impeaching Trump? The holy terror waiting in the wings. My column,
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4 years
Who better to ask about the probable course of this pandemic than someone who saw it coming? Here, in my Sunday column, is a conversation with Laurie Garrett, coronavirus Cassandra.
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4 years
Let Trump tweet and bleat to his heart’s content about Biden as some demented wreck. It’s not just cruel and over the top; it’s irrelevant. At least Biden has a moral compass. My column >>>
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5 years
The anti-vaccine hysterics reflect a broader horror that has flared in everything from the birther movement to “Pizzagate." This isn't just a public health crisis. It's a public sanity one, emblematic of too many people’s willful estrangement from reason.
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7 years
Has been fascinating and heartening to witness the crescendo of concern & candor from John McCain over the last week
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4 years
Wisely and graciously, Biden keeps communicating that we, not he, are the focus, the story, the point of all of this. Coming after Trump, it's a radical humility. My column >>>
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4 years
For looking beyond yourself, for showing such maturity, for blazing the trail that you did, and for your thoughtfulness, #ThankYouPete . My column >>>
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8 years
What most surprised me about our meeting at The Times with Donald Trump? He just can't quit the boasting. My column,
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7 years
Really, Emmys? Really, Stephen Colbert? I guess celebrity really does trump everything & redeem everyone. My column,
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7 years
A must-read, spot-on editorial. Donald Trump lashes out against anyone & everything. Except neo-Nazis. Revolting.
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7 years
Play whatever blame game you want, Mr. President. You lost big this week, and should look in the mirror. My column,
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7 years
Donald Trump is flat-out self-immolating before our eyes. Going down in flames. Wow.
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Frank Bruni
5 years
What you want from restaurants is a proxy for what you want from love and from life. And all of these change as you age, reflecting the arc that you’ve traveled, the peace that you have or haven’t made. My column on dining out after 50,
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6 years
When it comes to babysitting this president, congressional Republicans are a lost cause. There's scowling from Mitch McConnell, mewling from Paul Ryan. But Trump could put a babushka on the Statue of Liberty and they’d pronounce her prettier than ever.
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6 years
For the last hour, in this Upper East Side restaurant, the three guys at the table beside mine have not said a WORD to one another, each tapping into his smartphone. We are toast.
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6 years
This is barbaric and unacceptable.
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New York Times Opinion
6 years
"The therapist ordered me bound to a table to have ice, heat and electricity applied to my body. I was forced to watch clips on a television of gay men holding hands, hugging and having sex."
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6 years
Mike Pence mirrors Trump more than you realize, plus he believes he's on a mission from God. A kleptocracy or a theocracy? Pick your poison. Heaven help us.
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6 years
One of my favorite stories about Barbara Bush is one from her granddaughters about her lecture to them on White House etiquette. The twins tell it here,
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7 years
Drank coffee. Showered. Looked at the news. Tidied up. Just another Sunday as an enemy of the American people.
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5 years
It must have been wild for Ivanka Trump in the DMZ, finding herself next to an egomaniacal autocrat like that. It must have been something to meet Kim Jong-un, too. My column,
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Frank Bruni
8 years
Trump's campaign is a tantrum. McCain & Ryan must stop excusing it. Spare the rod, spoil The Donald. My column,
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4 years
December morning in Central Park. The Upper West Side from the Ramble. My city has known easier times. But it remains magnificent.
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5 years
Have read tons and written some about @PeteButtigieg . This new take on him by @MrWalterShapiro has fresh observations and insights. Very much worth reading >>>
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7 years
This isn't anti-Trump. It's pro-truth: If you've been in DC for multiple inaugurations, you know this one wasn't packed--until the protests.
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5 years
I promise not to become all dog all the time, but this was wild. My border collie mix happened upon her border-collie-mix doppelgänger in the park this morning. Just try to tell them apart. And they fell instantly in love. Paging Narcissus.
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4 years
Kamala Harris has a powerful story. She needs to tell it better than she has to date, because she and Biden must use every arrow in their quivers to end this wretched presidency. My column >>>
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6 years
Since this column on my imperiled eyesight went online, I've been so moved by responses in The Times's Comments section and here on Twitter, especially from people generously sharing their own struggles & wisdom. I give you my heartfelt thanks,
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5 years
Serious roar of a #SteakFry greeting when Pete Buttigieg takes the stage, probably louder even than for Elizabeth Warren.
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Frank Bruni
5 years
The president's desire to convert the Fourth of July into the Fourth of Trump says everything about his equation of national interest with self-interest. A national holiday is just another tall building on which to slap his name in gold. My column,
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6 years
"Trump is staffing his administration and his legal team with familiar personalities from his preferred cable-news channel—much like an imperious child demanding that his crib be stuffed with his TV-cartoon favorites." Damn, @davidfrum , that's good.
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7 years
I much preferred watching Barack and Michelle Obama walk toward us, not away.
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5 years
I’m talking to @PeteButtigieg , mayor of South Bend and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
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4 years
My girl🐾
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7 years
With Roy Moore's well-deserved defeat, Democrats get a huge boost, Trump gets a huge comeuppance and Americans get what we need. My column,
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7 years
Trump isn't merely a disgraced president. He's an absentee one. Did he ever really want the job? My column,
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5 years
For all his flaws, all his bobbles, Biden reliably projects a fundamental generosity of spirit that separates him from Trump and is like a tall, cold glass of water to Americans thirsty for decency. My column >>>
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4 years
"Within six hours, President Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. had tweeted versions of it." During a normal presidency, this would be the scandal of the year. During Trump's presidency? A blip. Another 4 years of this amorality & madness cannot happen.
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4 years
You're not a perfect man, Joe Biden, but you're an earnest and deeply empathetic one with great and genuine respect for this country. Congratulations to you. More than that, congratulations to America, which needed and needs this. And owes you thanks.
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8 years
It is obvious Trump will never show his tax returns. It is not OK. And it is excellent of the Times to stay on this,
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Frank Bruni
5 years
Trump doesn't want to run against Biden or Warren or Harris. He wants to run against Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and the Squad. He wants them front and center. And so he put them there, with that disgusting, racist tweet. My column,
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8 years
"They don’t write good," Trump complains of The Times. Well, we DO use adverbs when called for. Give us that.
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5 years
We humans take pills to sleep, buy special bedding, need optimal darkness, contrive maximal silence, must be positioned just so. Then there are dogs . . .
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4 years
Happy birthday to my father, Frank Bruni Sr., who turned 85 today and won't get the big party he deserves. He and I (and Regan) will have a quieter toast in our lockdown mode, as I describe in my @NYTOpinion newsletter this week >>
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6 years
Oh, Lindsey Graham. Is it really worth it?
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6 years
Is there another Republican whose journey from anti-Trump outrage to pro-Trump obsequiousness is even half as sad as Lindsey Graham's? @frankbruni doesn't think so.
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6 years
Why major in philosophy or English or history? Because college is more than an onramp to the job market. It's ideally about the mind and the soul and enlightened citizenship and so much else. My column,
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5 years
Dear God is Devin Nunes shameless. Hardly a revelation, but still it takes the breath away.
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Frank Bruni
7 years
Joseph & Mary & Roy Moore: You can't make this stuff up. But you can be sickened by it. My column,
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6 years
In this anxious time of absent leadership, I found reassurance in the gestures, words and work honored at the Golden Globes. My column,
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6 years
It's a toss-up for who looks unhappier in her reaction shots: Nancy Pelosi or Melania Trump #SOTU
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Frank Bruni
2 years
There are lucky turns in this life and then there's getting to hang out with Betty White: pure class, lotsa sass, all talent. Thank you, Betty, for decades of making us smile widely, laugh loudly and tear up from time to time.
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6 years
John McCain, in his forthcoming book, says he's grateful that he “made a small place for myself in the story of America.” A small place? I sometimes forget, thanks to Donald Trump, what the music of understatement sounds like.
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6 years
Hope. Jared. I would say that the wheels are coming off except, if we're honest, the wheels were never there.
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8 years
No DNC or RNC moment more devastating to Trump than these words of Humayun Khan's father. Wow.
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7 years
There are 50 different Americas if you're gay: a sweeping look at these divided states through an L.G.B.T. lens,
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4 years
There’s the ugliness of so much of politics, and then there’s the beauty of so much else. Thank you, autumn, for your colors and your solace.
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4 years
On a night when the viability of a female presidential candidate was an actual topic of discussion, the two women onstage gave the most commanding performances.
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Frank Bruni
6 years
Too many of the tributes to John McCain aren't really about John McCain. Then again too many of the tributes to Aretha Franklin weren't really about Aretha Franklin.
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5 years
Buttigieg would be the youngest-ever American president. I asked him why that shouldn't concern voters. He noted that Trump is the “most extreme example of the fact that while wisdom and age may be related, they’re very much not the same thing."
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9 years
And let's be clear. This isn't just a victory for LGBT Americans. It's a victory for all Americans, a proud moment for an entire country.
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5 years
The 2020 election isn’t about getting everything that Democrats want and that Americans deserve. It’s about getting rid of Trump, because the price of not doing so could be this nation’s very soul.
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4 years
The White House belatedly introduced a policy of mask-wearing — but it exempted the president. See what I mean about mask as metaphor? Trump demands protection from everybody around him, but nobody is protected from Trump. Story of America.
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4 years
Whatever happens on Monday here in Iowa, Pete Buttigieg has achieved something remarkable. As a gay man and an American, I thank him. My column >>>
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Frank Bruni
2 years
To live in N.C. right now, especially in Chapel Hill (me) or Durham (many friends), is to think the state is essentially one ginormous basketball court, fringed with fans whose heads are about to explode.
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7 years
Just look at all these darkened squares & think about all these shortened lives & tell me we haven't lost our way,
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5 years
One explanation for Donald Trump's eccentric campaign and unethical governance? He never really wanted this. Was never really serious about it. It was supposed to be a time-limited adventure in egomania. And here we are. My column,
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4 years
In his predecessors I could sense the beating of a heart and see the glimmer of a soul. In Trump I can’t. My column >>>
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5 years
This past year was so sadly and infuriatingly far from America’s best. All the more motivation for 2019. Let’s honor these blessings, not squander them. That will make for a happy new year.
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'Too little, too late' does not begin to describe the shortfall of Trumps words & deeds regarding Charlottesville,
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