Author: Lance Garrison
To the Editor:Re “Predators Leer as Moms Put Girls on Instagram” (front page, Feb. 25):I just finished reading your article exploring this proliferating phenomenon of moms posting pictures of their sometimes scantily clad underage daughters on the social media platform Instagram. They are effectively selling their daughters’ images to generate income.I found aspects of this practice to be quite disturbing. These kids may be harassed by oglers and pedophiles. They will have to live with the aftermath of their mothers’ decisions without understanding the short- and long-range implications. It smacks of child abuse, in my opinion.The second major concern that…
It was a lovely July day in 2023 – perfect for sailing. So Bill Buckles was delighted to join a friend and fellow sailor to crew for a race on Lake Erie. Bill Buckles had a stroke while sailing. They set off and were underway. After performing several maneuvers, the captain asked Buckles to adjust the sails on the 30-foot boat. But Buckles needed a moment. His right hand had fallen asleep, he told the crew. Then, a moment later, his right foot had fallen asleep, too, he told them.The captain’s wife, a nurse in the heart department at Cleveland Clinic,…
Get ready to gain an hour of sleep. The “fall back” time change happens on Sunday, November 5, 2023 in most of the U.S. How the time changes actually affect you depends on your own personal health, sleep habits, and lifestyle.Moving our clocks in either direction changes the principal time cue — light — for setting and resetting our 24-hour natural cycle, or circadian rhythm. In doing so, our internal clock becomes out of sync or mismatched with our current day-night cycle. How well we adapt to this depends on several things.In general, “losing” an hour in the spring is…
A large majority of Americans say they don’t trust a government run by the opposition party. So we must ask ourselves: Is it moral, just and wise to vest the ability to end other nations in the hands of one person?“As president, I carried no wallet, no money, no driver’s license, no keys in my pockets — only secret codes that were capable of bringing about the annihilation of much of the world as we knew it,” Ronald Reagan wrote in his autobiography.That’s right. President Biden this very minute could unilaterally decide to launch a devastating nuclear strike anywhere in…
Halfway through Eric Adams’s term as mayor of New York, many of the headlines he generates aren’t about the city; they’re about his personal problems. The F.B.I. raided the home of his chief campaign fund-raiser. Agents seized his cellphones and iPad. Government officials are looking into whether he received illegal campaign donations from foreigners.These problems are his own making, the result of his well-documented penchant for transactionalism and insularity. But they are particularly damaging because he can’t balance them with evidence that he is improving life in New York.Each one of Mr. Adams’s predecessors over the past four decades would…
The same week that a U.C. Berkeley protest ended in violence, with doors broken, people allegedly injured, a guest lecture organized by Jewish students canceled and attendees evacuated by the police through an underground passageway, a group of academics gathered across the bay at Stanford to discuss restoring inclusive civil discourse on campus. The underlying question: In today’s heated political environment, is that even possible?Over the course of two packed days of moderated and free discussion, we would try to test it out.Paul Brest, a professor emeritus and former dean at Stanford Law School and one of the conference’s organizers,…
If a nation were to launch an intercontinental ballisticmissile attack against the United States,the president would have about 15 minutes to decidewhether to order a nuclear counterstrike. If a nation were tolaunch an intercontinentalballistic missile attackagainst the United States,the president wouldhave about 15 minutesto decide whether to ordera nuclear counterstrike. And it is entirely the president’s decision. And it is entirelythe president’s decision. Should any one person have that much power? Should any one person havethat much power? By W.J. Hennigan, Photographs by An-My Lê Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion. An-My Lê is a professor of photography…
Enough already: It is time to unleash Dark Brandon on this soul-sucking downer of a presidential race. And the most obvious place to begin is to invite him to the State of the Union address.President Biden is set to deliver his annual address to Congress Thursday night, just two days after Donald Trump effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination, signaling the unofficial start of the general election. This is a big moment for Mr. Biden. A sizable chunk of America has decided he is too frail and dotty to be commander in chief for a second term, and his…
A Florida school district, facing pressure about “nudity” in schools, removed from shelves a picture book that showed an illustration of a goblin’s bare bottom. Some students were saved from debauchery when school officials colored in a pair of pants on the goblin.That’s a particularly nutty example, from the newsletter “Popular Information” (the school district didn’t want to discuss the issue), of a right-wing puritan drive in education that appalls liberals: Conservatives are banning materials that mention gay people, racism or sexuality, skewing the teaching of history and students’ understanding of society. “The freedom to read is under assault in…
In The Guardian, Marina Hyde observed that Christian Horner, the boss of Formula One’s Red Bull racing team, is enmeshed in a tawdry scandal: “It’s all very Keeping Up With the Carkrashians.” (Debbie Landis, Garrison, N.Y.)I occasionally use this section of the newsletter to showcase an especially deft or witty headline, and Britain’s Daily Star recently had one, pertinent to an article about the top Kellogg’s executive advising financially struggling people to have cereal for dinner: “Let Them Eat Flakes.” (Alex Johnson, Santa Monica, Calif.)In The Times, Pete Wells used his review of the restaurant Noksu to note the absurdity…