In 1866, four women placing spring flowers on the graves of Confederate soldiers at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Miss., noticed that the nearby graves of Union soldiers were barren. They took it upon themselves to decorate those, too. Lately I have been thinking about those women as Memorial Day approaches. Their decision to expand the […]

In my early 20s, I attended an event where Tim Keller, an orthodox, evangelical Presbyterian pastor, was having a public debate with a secular humanist. In the nearly 20 years that have passed since the event, I still recall one moment distinctly. The secular humanist struggled with a point he was making and was unclear, […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, […]

When I picture time passing, I think of a calendar — specifically, a full-year calendar printed on one page, the sort that a bank or a restaurant might hand out as a freebie, emblazoned with its logo. The year is laid out as a grid: three rows, four months to a row. I picture each […]

America now has an asylum lottery. For all the attention paid to the United States-Mexico border in the days before and after the end this month of Title 42, which allowed federal officials to summarily expel unauthorized border-crossers without letting them ask for asylum, few people (on the U.S. side, at least) seemed to notice […]

If Ronald Reagan were to come back to life, he would probably be confused by the leftist tone that the early 2024 Republican presidential campaign has sometimes taken. After Ron DeSantis announced he was holding a fund-raiser last night at the Four Seasons hotel, an official close to Donald Trump mocked the event as “uber […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist On Wednesday, the charmless and awkward Ron DeSantis entered the presidential race. In 2024 Republican primary polling, he consistently comes in second to Donald Trump. He […]

MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Any exasperated parent might be forgiven for wanting a daughter like Alimatu Sesay, a highly motivated 16-year-old who can’t afford schoolbooks but borrows them from wealthier classmates and studies the texts outside every night with a flashlight because her tiny home is crowded and has no electricity. Alimatu is one of […]

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The data is clear: Levels of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide have spiked for American teenagers over the last decade. Last Friday’s episode with the psychologist Jean Twenge sifted through that data to uncover both the scale of the crisis and its possible causes. Today’s episode focuses on the […]

In an interview last month, Justice Samuel Alito complained about excessive criticism of the Supreme Court. To him, these criticisms have not identified discrete problems to be solved but rather represent bad-faith efforts by critics to do nothing more than give the public a “reason to question our legitimacy.” The not-so-subtle implication of what has […]