David Brooks 18 posts 0 comments

Biden administration statements on the unrest in Cuba were notable for what they did not mention: the blockade and the 243 new measures imposed on the Island.
Read More...

In a dramatic contrast with the Republican convention, Spanish is spoken in Philadelphia this week. Not only that. Among this week's many speakers there were undocumented migrants who…
Read More...

President Obama traveled last week to Vietnam, a country that resisted one of the longest wars in modern history, in which more than a million Vietnamese and some 58,000 American…
Read More...

While Barack urges "change" in Cuba during his visit, the policy of normalization of relations with Havana will come from changes within the United States, rather than on the island.
Read More...

Could a socialist make his way into the White House? Until very recently, it didn't occur to anyone to ask that question and the possibility wasn't even contemplated among the dreams of…
Read More...

There is talk of a new type of terrorist -- raised in this country and therefore hard to detect but "radicalized" and who acts in the name of foreign foes.
Read More...

The Statue of Liberty will soon have to seek exile, because she's a foreigner and cannot prove that she is Christian.
Read More...

When Puerto Rico failed to pay its debt, the first time in more than a century as a colony, it exceeded the largest municipal default in U.S. history. Unlike other U.S. public entities,…
Read More...

David Brooks writes in Mexico's La Jornada of Bernie Sanders' political revolution to rescue his country. And he concludes that maybe thanks to Sen. Sanders, the word "socialist" will…
Read More...

The campaign has prompted some fast-food chains, such as Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King and Subway, and supermarket chains, among them Whole Foods, to sign agreements to raise the…
Read More...