One Family’s Relentless Pursuit Of The Bony, Oily, Elusive Shad
To those who cast their nets into the Delaware River each spring, hoping for a bounty of shad, it’s a tradition worth saving.
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Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle
I was already feeling queasy about the Trump administration when I saw that the Agriculture Department was withdrawing a Biden-era proposal meant to reduce salmonella in poultry. So besides making us jittery — and “yippy” — the Trump gang is trying …
American Values Are Threatened by the American President
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
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
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.
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
Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.
How Francis Wooed Donors
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
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?
Two of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of canonization.