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"Most solutions will take years to bear fruit. But if we are to deter war, be victorious if it comes and safeguard our democracy, we will need to maintain a sizable high-quality force of volunteers. That means today’s leaders must act now to entice the next great generation of Americans to serve."

"We must find ways to preserve our achievements in biomedicine and support scientists, even if that means both the scientists and those in positions of power engage political leaders and challenge ideologues to reject their anti-science rhetoric and agenda. Otherwise, almost a century of America’s preeminence in science will soon decline, our democratic values will erode, and our global stature will fall."

"I’d love to see a world where platforms take online abuse against women seriously and where media companies don’t exploit the women targeted in these attacks for views. But in the meantime, I don’t want to be another woman forced to cede space on the internet to the worst trolls, or allow those people to drive me out of a career that I love. But for now, the hate doesn't feel personal anymore. I don't care if people want to yell at me all day online. It's not me they hate anyway."

"Hollywood and tech firms want to reduce culture to a slurry of interchangeable bits. Let’s not help them out"

"... [W]hat’s happening this year will happen even more: The challenges of mass arrivals will spread beyond the border, and there will be an increased demand for restrictions even from people generally sympathetic to migrants, but the sheer numbers will make any restrictions less effectual."

"For the roughly $12 billion a year it cost to expand the child tax credit, we ensured stability for millions of Americans.
So what did we do? We killed the program, pushing millions of kids back into poverty and more than doubling the rate to 12.4 percent."

"First, avoiding much of this human catastrophe would have cost remarkably little money. Second, child poverty is, in the long run, very expensive for the nation as a whole: Americans who live in poverty as children grow up to become less healthy and productive adults than they should be."

"Here’s why the latest booster is recommended for more Americans."

"'Olympia,' the brothel scene that birthed modern art, crosses the Atlantic for the first time in the Met exhibition 'Manet/Degas.'

"This is a cautionary tale about the arrogance of a billionaire who has come to play a mercurial role in U.S. foreign policy. But it’s also a story about fear, seeded and promoted by the Russians, deliberately designed to shape broader Western perceptions of this war."