![]() Ugly new accusations and graphic details continue the United States’ deep slide into embarrassing tabloid territory. Opinion Nicholas Goldberg: Giuliani’s sordid story just got worse But I also tried to speak up on behalf of the kind of reasonable cooperation and rational engagement that might help put American democracy back into working order. Capitol, for instance, and about climate change, political hypocrisy and what I see as the wrong-headed and dangerous policies of ultraconservatives in Washington. Not that I didn’t spew my share of outrage - about the Jan. I took that to heart and tried not to do the same. ![]() He feared that columnists contributed to the “toxic tenor of American discourse.” And that we too often ignored “ambivalence and ambiguity.” He said he regretted being snide too often, and taking easy shots at political adversaries. ![]() That would be tragic.Ībout a year after I began writing the column, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote his final regular op-ed essay. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s 2003 prediction that affirmative action college admissions would only last 25 more years may come true if the current court has its way. Opinion Nicholas Goldberg: The affirmative action calamity brewing at the Supreme Court Sixty-three percent of Democrats say the same about Republicans, up from 35%. Worse, 72% of Republicans see Democrats as “a lot or somewhat more immoral” than other Americans, up from 47% in 2016. Civility, compromise, tolerance and other fusty concepts from smoother-running days are mocked as forms of surrender.ĭemocrats and Republicans increasingly see each other as close-minded, dishonest and less intelligent than other Americans, according to a Pew Research Center report last year. And in the realm of public opinion, those who yell the loudest are rewarded, as you can see every night on the cable news networks. In the world of journalism, we live in an era of clicks and financial distress. ![]() A belligerent certitude rules the day in the United States, especially on the right but also, too often, among progressives. No one has much patience for nuance or for listening to those with whom they disagree. Armies are fighting again in Europe and climate change is bearing down. Democracy is in jeopardy, extremism is on the rise and a new Cold War is sneaking up on us. It hasn’t been an easy time to be writing about the world. ![]()
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