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Campus Protests Aren’t Going Away. Colleges Need to Draw Lines.
Student protests across the country continue to escalate, leading to mass arrests and police action. In this conversation with politics editor Sarah Wildman, the Times Opinion columnist David French argues that while free speech needs to be upheld ...
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The Cruel Spectacle of British Asylum Policy
Last week Britain’s Parliament passed a law that seeks to redefine reality. The Safety of Rwanda Act declares Rwanda a “safe” country, regardless of the evidence to the contrary — and orders British courts to do the same. Its purpose is to allow the ...
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Newyork
The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers — whose brutal role in the confrontation was later described by a federal commission as a “police riot” — hijacking the focus of the ...
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Newyork
What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There
Productions of plays in America’s high schools have been increasingly under attack. In 2023, Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”was rejected in Tennessee (since it deals with adultery); “August: Osage County,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy ...
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Newyork
The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers
Nobody writes poems about middle managers. Nobody gets too romantic about the person who runs a department at a company, or supervises a construction crew, or serves as principal at a school, manager at a restaurant or deacon at a church. But I’ve ...
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Newyork
Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair in Waco, Texas — some 1,300 miles from her recliner in Las Vegas — and joining a great many other Americans as they put on solar eclipse ...
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Newyork
Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?
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Newyork
People Hated ‘Madame Web’ — But They Were Desperate to See Dakota Johnson Mock It.
The star has never quite said the movie was bad, but it’s fun to imagine a celebrity going scorched-earth on her own bad movie.
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US
Southern California Oil Sheen Is Unlikely to Stem From Spill, Tests Indicate
Samples from an oil sheen in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif., were more consistent with oil that seeps naturally.
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Newyork
How to Fix the Crisis of Trust in Higher Education
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been keeping track of every report I see about major budget shortfalls at universities. The general trend seems to be that the schools facing these shortfalls have declining enrollments, and state and federal ...