More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President,” by Maureen Dowd (column, July 9), about her sister’s letter to the president urging him to acknowledge a daughter fathered by Hunter Biden: While I completely agree

KYIV, Ukraine — For decades, discussions about whether or not Ukraine should be admitted to NATO have revolved around the risks — to both Ukraine and member nations — of Ukraine being in the alliance. And at the core of those

I am a ballet dancer and a Black man, in that order. I left the United States to train at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow at age 15 so that people would see my skill first and not my

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Harvard Faces Complaint Over Legacy Admissions” (news article, July 4): Eliminate legacy admissions? In a word, yes. Harvard purports to promote diversity and equity in its admissions — and yet offers preference

For over a quarter century now, I have listened to people’s stories, sat by their bedsides as life slipped away, buried their parents, spouses and sometimes their children. Marriages have ended in my office, as have engagements. I have watched

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Justices Rule Against Affirmative Action” (front page, June 30): While I share the outrage directed at the Supreme Court’s striking down affirmative action, as the founder and director of a preschool day

Let’s be honest about the painful reality: America has functioned as a full democracy — guaranteeing the franchise to all — for less than one human lifetime. In practice, our democracy is younger than me. I was born in 1959,

By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist I’ve been driving for nearly 30 years, but until recently, I hadn’t ever changed my car engine’s oil by myself. Of course I hadn’t: By the time I got my first car, in the mid-1990s,

Belarus’s president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is trying to get our attention. He is preening himself on the global stage, making the rounds in the media to take credit for brokering an end to the armed mutiny in Russia last weekend. Just

Empty storefronts dot most of the blocks around my downtown neighborhood these days and have overtaken some of them. Once a buzzy destination for shoppers and diners, downtown today frequently looks deserted, its visitors presumably repelled by reports of violent