Some time ago, a young combat veteran I’ve been mentoring for years sent me a troubling email. His unit was considering holding a significant ceremony at a property controlled by President Trump’s company. Given the recent public concerns about Air F

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Around Memorial Day each year, I take my children to Arlington National Cemetery. I’ve got friends buried there, and I think the best way to tend to their memory is to tell my kids stories about them. Who knows, maybe when my kids are grown up, they’

ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ARTHUR Gregg Sulzberger, a member of the fifth generation of the family that controls the New York Times, was changing the diaper of a member of the sixth, when the phone rang. Another mess: A few days earli

IT’S STANDING ROOM ONLY IN EDDY’S KITCHEN, a tiny deli with mismatched floor tiles and laminated menus in North Plainfield, N.J., when Democratic Congressman Tom Malinowski begins explaining why he supports the impeachment inquiry into President Dona

IN A MAJOR SHIFT IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, President Donald Trump ordered troops to vacate part of northeast Syria on Oct. 6, making way for a Turkish military operation against the Kurdish forces that control the region. Defending his decision, Trump

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ANG LEE ALREADY KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL about 3-D movies. “It gives you a headache—of course you don’t like it!” the Academy Award–winning director says at an editing studio in midtown Manhattan. “The projection is bad. It’s too dark.” Complaints like th

ASHLEY ALCARAZ REMEMBERS WHEN SHE STARTED TO regret entrusting her infant daughter Paysen to an unlicensed in-home day care when she returned to work. She found out her daughter had been sleeping on the floor in a house where dogs and cats roamed aro

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ONE YEAR AFTER A FATHER’S DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN, A MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN STRUGGLE TO MOVE ON

FACING BACKLASH IN FEBRUARY OVER A SWEATER THAT looked like blackface, Gucci followed a now predictable course. Company officials apologized for appearing to mine demeaning imagery from the past; hired a global diversity czar, who is African American

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