Journalist, book author, professor, North Carolinian.https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mk5ymxohzk2iHow 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. https://pod.link/1766357400/episode/ODJmNTA4N2UtM2U3Zi0xMWYxLWFiMjUtNDNlYjBkMmYxMmEz23 Apr 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5ymxohzk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mf363rxprc2wA 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 . . . https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/t-magazine/chicken-rising-prices-restaurants.html17 Feb 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf363rxprc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mf2yya5e7s2uTo 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 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3162417 Feb 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf2yya5e7s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3meghdewyo22iThom Tillis is on some tear. If only more Republican lawmakers would follow . . . my newsletter >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/melania-trump-tillis-noem.html09 Feb 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3meghdewyo22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3me4gn3qpu224Anyone 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 >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/trump-iran-ice-stephen-miller.html05 Feb 2026 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3me4gn3qpu224https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mdzvxcu3ns2fFor 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 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3162404 Feb 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzvxcu3ns2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mdxrgmvl5225Great 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 >>> https://provost.duke.edu/news/duke-launches-global-higher-education-network/03 Feb 2026 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxrgmvl5225https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mduwiiias222Alex 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, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/opinion/trump-failure-minnesota.html02 Feb 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mduwiiias222https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3mddhbmugrc2sI 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jan 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddhbmugrc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m46e3i2p6c2zNorth 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 >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/opinion/north-carolina-gerrymander-republicans.html27 Oct 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46e3i2p6c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m3mm2qoaz222My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/opinion/trump-vance-patel-bondi.html20 Oct 2025 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3mm2qoaz222https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m3cyyg234222Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/style/after-the-hunt-unhinged-professor-art.html16 Oct 2025 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3cyyg234222https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m3cnncb6r222Is 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, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/trump-israel-hamas-venezuela-power.html16 Oct 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3cnncb6r222https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m3cj4fljq222Not 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: https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/pentagon-press-corps-hegseth/684570/16 Oct 2025 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3cj4fljq222https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3m363pjlcfk22Will 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: https://provost.duke.edu/independent-thinkers-conversation-ro-khanna/.14 Oct 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3m363pjlcfk22https://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3lbmmttkw7u2rSince 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 >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/senate-trump-house-congress.html?searchResultPosition=223 Nov 2024 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmmttkw7u2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/frankabruni.bsky.social/post/3lbmmcn4e7e2rThis 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 >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/election-postmortems.html23 Nov 2024 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:hyk6vn6x7ggy3ggca744dfej/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmmcn4e7e2r