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American Values Are Threatened by the American President

admin27 April 2025

As the Trump administration disappears immigrants into foreign prisons and sees this as a source of American strength, I think back to when my dad was disappeared, why he came to America and, indeed, why I exist. My dad’s journey through war and ...

America’s Tough Guy in Chief Is Making America Weak

admin27 April 2025

Provoking your enemies, alienating your friends and actively sabotaging your own defenses is no one’s idea of a sound national security plan. And yet, this is the playbook that President Trump has apparently followed over the first 100 days of his ...

Thoughts on Better Thinking

admin27 April 2025

Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America.

Why Is Trump Struggling? His Administration Is Too Black-Pilled.

admin27 April 2025

If a striking thing about the period just before Donald Trump’s second inauguration was the feeling that America was genuinely shifting to the right — wokeness crumbling, more minority voters and elite factions joining the G.O.P., every branch of ...

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

admin27 April 2025

Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

How Francis Wooed Donors

admin27 April 2025

Efforts to fix the Vatican’s broken finances helped restore confidence among big givers. But the work isn’t finished.

Los cantos gregorianos del funeral del papa Francisco

admin27 April 2025

El papa Francisco rompía a menudo con la tradición, pero la música de su funeral no lo intenta. Si bien los compositores de todas las épocas, desde Palestrina hasta Mozart y Andrew Lloyd Webber, han escrito elaboradas adaptaciones de la liturgia ...

Will Pope Francis Be Made a Saint?

admin27 April 2025

Two of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of canonization.

Francis’ Last Journey

admin27 April 2025

By plane and boat, on foot and in an electric popemobile, Pope Francis traveled year after year of his papacy, reaching dozens of countries on five continents. His first official trip outside Rome was in 2013 to Lampedusa, a tiny Mediterranean island ...

Mike Myers Is Ready to Defend Canada

admin27 April 2025

The “Saturday Night Live” alum on getting political in Studio 8H, playing Elon Musk and why he decided to film a campaign ad for Canada’s Liberal Party.