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I Know Trump’s Plan for Universities. It Transformed My College.

admin7 May 2025

In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what they could say and teach. Some started avoiding terms like “racism.” One student ...

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 ...

‘How Much Does the Next Pope Matter?’: Three Conservative Catholics on the Conclave and the Church’s Future

admin7 May 2025

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at National Review, and Dan Hitchens, a senior editor at First Things, to discuss conservative Catholic hopes and fears for the ...

Kristi Noem and the MAGA Beauty Aesthetic

admin7 May 2025

Listen to and follow ‘The Opinions’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio By Meher Ahmad and Jessica Grose Produced by Vishakha Darbha From done-up hair to heavily applied makeup, conservative women — particularly those in ...

A Troubled Homeland Embodied in a Bag of Chickpeas

admin7 May 2025

“I started exploring it as a kind of landscape,” the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.

With Tears of Joy and Anxiety, Waiting for P.O.W.s to Come Home, at Last

admin7 May 2025

In a parking lot in Ukraine, hundreds of family members gathered to greet loved ones being repatriated from Russian prisons. Amid happy reunions, there was anguish, too.

A Half-Ton Spacecraft Lost by the Soviets in 1972 Is Coming Home

admin7 May 2025

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down.

Trump’s Threatened Tariffs Are So Large, 10% Feels Like a Relief

admin7 May 2025

As he proposes ever stiffer tariffs, President Trump has normalized his merely big ones.

Can Trump Turn Back the Economic Clock?

admin7 May 2025

Historians make their names by persuading people to see patterns in the chaos. In the late 1970s, the French historian Fernand Braudel thought that one of those patterns was about to repeat. Braudel was a student of the slow-moving currents that ...

Xi’s Visit to Russia Complicates China’s Courtship of Europe

admin7 May 2025

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, is reinforcing his bond with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. But that could hurt Beijing’s efforts to repair ties with Europe.