Great conversation on the pod with @frankabruni.bsky.social. We talked about the uncertain future facing students, Trump, and even "W." pod.link/1766357400/e...

How to guide college students through this juncture of American life? And what kind of shadow has the Trump administration cast on campuses? I joined the College Matters podcast of the @chronicle.com to chat with @jackstripling.bsky.social about my experiences on the Duke faculty and more.

A chicken entree for $40! A chicken entree for $50!?! A chicken entree for $52!!!! What the hell is going on? My poultry-palooza, for T Magazine, has some answers . . . www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/t...

When Did Chicken Become the Most Expensive Thing on the Menu?

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To my fellow journalists: If you're looking for a change or new challenge and teaching and North Carolina are enticing, our journalism/media wing here at Duke has an opening for a full professor. Details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31624

Thom Tillis is on some tear. If only more Republican lawmakers would follow . . . my newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Opinion | The Glorious Spectacle of a Republican Gone Rogue

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Anyone who thinks the coming midterms will proceed in a normal fashion, in accordance with normal rules, isn't paying attention. That and more in this week's @nytopinion.nytimes.com edition of The Conversation >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

Opinion | Trump Brings Out the Worst in Everyone

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For acquaintances who are longtime journalists looking to pivot/try something new: Duke University, where I teach, is looking for another full professor for the media/journalism wing of the public policy school. Applications due early March, academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31624

Great to see Duke taking this role in improving higher ed worldwide. This article explains how leaders in higher ed can contribute ideas and get involved >>> provost.duke.edu/news/duke-la...

Duke Launches Global Higher Education Network | Office of the Provost

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“During Trump’s first administration, he had minders,” writes Frank Bruni. “For his second, he wanted a pep squad.” nyti.ms/4c6Rta5

Opinion | Trump Isn’t Failing Because He’s Getting Bad Advice

Trump’s advisers are terrible. That’s not the problem.

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Alex Pretti and Renee Good aren’t dead because of some "bad advice" given to Trump. They’re dead because of bad men acting out the script that a bad president wrote for them. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com newsletter, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

Opinion | Trump Can Be Bad All on His Own

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I always enjoy talking with Andy, even when we range across terrifying terrain: Trump on Greenland, Trump vis-a-vis Minneapolis, Trump as the midterms approach . . . but then these are terrifying times.

North Carolina is emphatically, undeniably, intensely purple -- and a new map could give Republicans 11 of our 14 House seats. Some democracy we have here. My newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

Opinion | For Shame, North Carolina. For Shame.

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My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Opinion | What JD Vance, Kash Patel and a Throw Pillow Have in Common

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Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...

The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art

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Is Trump's vanity an excessively chronicled distraction -- or the toxic root of almost all that's wrong with how he governs? Bret Stephens and I discuss, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Opinion | When Vanity Is Your Superpower

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Not so long ago, I couldn't have imagined reading a sentence like this: "In the afternoon, officials confiscated the Pentagon press badges of hundreds of journalists, including mine." Great, sad, scary article: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps

I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.

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Will chat with Rep. Ro Khanna at Duke on Mon., Nov. 10. If you're in or near the Raleigh-Durham area, please join us for this free, in-person-only event; the congressman is game for audience questions. Details, including registration: provost.duke.edu/independent-....

"Independent Thinkers" Conversation: Ro Khanna | Office of the Provost

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Since I entered academia, friends constantly ask about my students' POLITICS. But what's more striking is my students' HYDRATION. This is one soggy crew, as I explain in the final section of my NYTimes newsletter this week >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Opinion | Can the Senate Survive Donald Trump?

The vaunted chamber’s degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.

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This chewy postmortem on postmortems illustrates that two of the greatest biases in media aren't about left or right; they're about echoing the chorus of the moment and about finding a story and selling it boldly, no matter its actual subtlety. Worth reading >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

Opinion | Election Myths, Traps, Truths and Lessons

We won’t have enough data to tell the full story of the election for some time. But there are a few things we can say for sure now.

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