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Gov. Josh Shapiro: Finding Moral Clarity After an Arsonist’s Attack

admin25 April 2025

I woke up to yelling in the hallway. A few seconds later, there was a bang on the door. It was just after 2 a.m., and a state trooper in the hallway of our private living quarters at the governor’s residence said there was a fire in the building. We ...

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart

admin25 April 2025

Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the sixth- or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas. She was the center of attention ...

Why the White House Started Making Deportation Cartoons

admin25 April 2025

The Trump administration hasn’t yet delivered huge deportation numbers — but it is using the internet to provide regular deportation spectacles.

Catholics Expected a Revolution from Francis, Just Not the One He Gave Them

admin25 April 2025

Liberals hoped he’d ordain women or allow gay marriage. Conservatives thought he’d tear up Church doctrine. But his papacy favored debate over radical action.

My Son Has a Rare Syndrome. So I Turned to the Internet.

admin25 April 2025

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into the hard rind of my belly and offered selections ...

The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea

admin25 April 2025

Forty-six hours before Rüdiger Koch officially seized the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat, I took a 15-minute motorboat ride from Linton Bay Marina, in north-central Panama, to visit him. It was ...

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

admin25 April 2025

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Meloni and Trump: Oval Office Meeting Cements Special Rapport

admin25 April 2025

In Washington, President Trump lavished praise on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. He also accepted her invitation to visit Rome.

Trump Lashes Out at Fed Chair for Not Cutting Rates

admin25 April 2025

President Trump on Thursday escalated his long-running attack on the Federal Reserve, by lashing out repeatedly at the head of the nation’s central bank, Jerome H. Powell, for not doing enough to fortify the economy as the effects of tariffs take ...

Melania Trump’s Easter Surprise

admin24 April 2025

She did not, despite her penchant for hats, wear an Easter bonnet. Instead, when Melania Trump materialized on a flower-festooned White House balcony next to her husband (who was in his usual red, white and blue) to celebrate the White House Easter ...