Frank Bruni

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

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...

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

Opinion | The Glorious Spectacle of a Republican Gone Rogue

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

Opinion | Trump Brings Out the Worst in Everyone

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...

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

Duke Launches Global Higher Education Network | Office of the Provost Image

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...

Opinion | Trump Isn’t Failing Because He’s Getting Bad Advice Trump’s advisers are terrible. That’s not the problem.

“During Trump’s first administration, he had minders,” writes Frank Bruni. “For his second, he wanted a pep squad.”
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Opinion | Trump Can Be Bad All on His Own

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...

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.

"Independent Thinkers" Conversation: Ro Khanna | Office of the Provost Image How does America move past this fractious, furious juncture? Are there ways to bridge the divide and lessen the acrimony between rival political camps? Please join

We can and should talk about this, congressman, at our event tonight at 6 p.m. at Duke University. For anyone in the Durham area who would like to attend, it's free, open to the public and you can find all relevant information here >>> provost.duke.edu/independent-...

Opinion | For Shame, North Carolina. For Shame.

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

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

The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art

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...

Opinion | When Vanity Is Your Superpower

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...

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.

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...

"Independent Thinkers" Conversation: Ro Khanna | Office of the Provost Image How does America move past this fractious, furious juncture? Are there ways to bridge the divide and lessen the acrimony between rival political camps? Please join

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-....

Opinion | Can the Senate Survive Donald Trump? The vaunted chamber’s degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.

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 | 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.

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...