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A Plane From Qatar? C’mon, Man.

admin15 May 2025

As lawyers responsible in recent White Houses for enforcing the rules against foreign government presents for presidents, we believe Donald Trump is transgressing them in the most brazen of ways. We’re not just talking about his apparent eagerness to ...

A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press

admin14 May 2025

This essay was originally delivered as a talk at the Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies on Tuesday. The role of a free and independent press in a healthy democracy is under direct attack, with increasingly aggressive efforts to ...

Don’t Know How to Face Your Mom? Talk to Your Friend’s Mom Instead.

admin14 May 2025

I’m a woman who has never wanted children. For years, the person who had the hardest time accepting that was my mother. Since two of my closest friends also chose a child-free life, I came up with a small experiment: We swapped moms. Each of us sat ...

What Has Trump Done to West Point?

admin14 May 2025

More from our inbox: That Plane From Qatar Would Belong to Us, Not to TrumpCredit...Damon Winter/The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate,” by Graham Parsons (Opinion guest essay, May 12): Dr. Parsons ...

Shamelessness Is Trump’s Superpower

admin14 May 2025

Donald Trump, who was well on his way to becoming one of the most corrupt presidents in American history even before he said it would be “stupid” for the United States not to accept a plane worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Qatar to replace ...

The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

admin14 May 2025

When I moved to America from Russia to join a biology lab at Harvard Medical School in 2023, it felt as if I found my dream job. America was a paradise for science. Everything was flourishing. There was freedom of discourse; conferences, seminars. It ...

I Reject Trump’s Random False Rationale Generator

admin14 May 2025

If the White House wants to fire the librarian of Congress, it can. But it was interesting to have recently had the experience of meeting this dynamic, dedicated person, and feeling so proud that she was our librarian of Congress, then reading the ...

‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’

admin14 May 2025

transcript ‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’ Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents. Here’s a statistic I’ve ...

My Brush With Trump’s Thought Police

admin14 May 2025

The email arrived in early February from the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, carrying a blunt message. It informed the organizers of a Danish lecture series — one I was soon scheduled to speak at — that the final portion of American funding would be ...

Let Go of Your Old Ideas About the Saudis

admin13 May 2025

Lots of people in Saudi Arabia have a soft spot for Donald Trump. They think of the American president as a straight-shooting businessman — someone who talks of interests and not values, who won’t lecture them about human rights and who shares their ...