After our columnist inquired about a surprise bill for a whale-watching outing, Holland America changed the way it handles passengers wait-listed for excursions.

So we’re back to the strongman. Not just in Washington, but here in New York City, where Andrew Cuomo is seeking to restart his career by making the novel move from Albany to Gracie Mansion. With the Democratic primary taking place in June, he’s …

More from our inbox: That Plane From Qatar Would Belong to Us, Not to TrumpCredit…Damon Winter/The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate,” by Graham Parsons (Opinion guest essay, May 12): Dr. Parsons …

On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child …

Polls show Democrats down in the dumps at their lowest approval level in decades, but we Republicans are having an identity crisis of our own, and you can see it in the tug of war over President Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.” The nub of the …

It turned out to be easy to undermine West Point. All it took was an executive order from President Trump and a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dictating what could and couldn’t be taught in the military and its educational institutions. In …