Consultants Boost College Applications. Is It Wrong to Use One for My Child?
The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the kinds of extracurricular support parents owe their college-bound children.
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What
Have Some Sympathy
I’m beginning to feel sorry for sympathy. It was once such an honorable impulse. Humble, sincere, caring. Sympathy was meant for people who suffered or had less. In its most modest form, a sympathy card sent to people in grieving. But sympathy has …
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Zach Johnson Tries to End a 30-Year Drought
As captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, he is attempting to win in Europe for the first time since 1993.
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5 Takeaways From Another Trump-Free Republican Debate
The party’s front-runner took few hits as his rivals bickered, Nikki Haley delivered an assured performance, Tim Scott reasserted himself and Ron DeSantis took his first debate swipes at Trump.
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Where Are the Big Ideas?
Saint Laurent and Dior play it safe in Paris.
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What Is J.D. Vance’s Angle?
J.D. Vance was trying to find his groove. I had just shown up at his office last week to interview the Ohio Republican about his first nine months in the Senate, where he has proved curiously hard to pigeonhole. As we sat down, Mr. Vance — at 39, one …
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If Politicians Are Either Stainless or Shameless, Guess Which One Senator Menendez Is
Bret Stephens: Gail, you know how much I hate stereotypes, but — New Jersey! What is it about the state that seems to produce ethically challenged pols? I’m thinking about Harrison Williams and Bob Torricelli and Jim McGreevey and innumerable mayors …
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The Libertarian vs. Conservative Impulses in G.O.P. Policy on Crime
In 2018 President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act, a law intended to improve prison conditions and get more people out of the federal system sooner. He did so at a time in which criminal justice reform was a rising concern among conservatives …
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Being There
I want to begin this column by sharing with you one of the worst things I ever did. I was only 18 years old, but that was no excuse. Late one night I got a call from a close friend. “My dad’s on the way to the hospital,” he said. “It’s really bad …
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21 Questions for the New Gucci Designer
Ahead of his first show at Milan Fashion Week, Sabato De Sarno talks family, tattoos and what he sings in the shower.
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