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West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

admin9 May 2025

It turned out to be easy to undermine West Point. All it took was an executive order from President Trump and a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dictating what could and couldn’t be taught in the military and its educational institutions. In ...

On the Chopping Block: Arts and Humanities

admin8 May 2025

More from our inbox: Trump’s Threat of Tariffs on Films Made AbroadA group of officials at the National Endowment for the Arts are resigning. Credit...Graeme Sloan/Sipa via Associated PressTo the Editor: Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National ...

Can New Weight-Loss Drugs Help in a World Awash in Addictive Foods?

admin7 May 2025

Throughout my life I’ve been fat, thin and various sizes in between. Since I was a kid I’ve gained and lost weight repeatedly, putting on 20 pounds, taking it off, putting on 30 pounds and then losing it again. It has been a cycle of despair. The ...

Daniel Kahneman’s Decision: A Debate About Choice in Dying

admin4 May 2025

More from our inbox: Questions for AmericaCredit...Kelli AndersonTo the Editor: Re “The Lesson From a Nobel Laureate’s Chosen Death,” by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer (Opinion guest essay, April 20): I admire and respect Daniel Kahneman ...

At 66, He’s Finally the Husband of My Dreams

admin4 May 2025

I’ve always loved my husband, but now that we are older and in our 60s, I definitely hate him less. Maybe I shouldn’t have had to wait 33 years — a third of a century — to hate my husband less, but time has been good to him. And it’s not just that he ...

When Deportation Occurs Without Trials

admin3 May 2025

More from our inbox: Harvard’s DefianceCuts to Meals on WheelsThe border wall in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in February.Credit...Alejandro Cegarra for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “Brushing Off Due Process for Migrants” (news analysis, front page ...

Our Dad, Leonard Bernstein, Would Want His Music Played at the Kennedy Center

admin2 May 2025

Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him to be the first executive director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, which was being built as a memorial to her ...

China Wants to Silence My Organization. Why Is Trump Doing It?

admin2 May 2025

In February 2020, weeks before Covid-19 paralyzed the world, the Radio Free Asia reporter Jane Tang received a panicked text from a source in Wuhan, China: “They are following me,” the message read. “I’m too scared to move.” Ms. Tang had been ...

What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital

admin2 May 2025

If you have ever felt stress after passing a highway sign warning, “No gas next 90 miles,” you understand the importance of my hospital. I am the chief executive of Lincoln Health, a 25-bed county-owned hospital in Hugo, Colo., a town of about 800 ...

A House That Reimagines English Country Style

admin2 May 2025

IN 2017, WHEN the British designer Faye Toogood, already the mother of one, learned that she was pregnant with twins, she found herself craving more space and privacy than life in central London allowed. And so, along with her husband, the ...