Letter: Philanthropy and Parks

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "In Era of Big Gifts, Overlooked Parks Groups Ask: What About Us?" (news article, Feb. 18): The Central...

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Letters: Nearing D-Day on the Budget Cuts

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. To the Editor: Your Feb. 25 editorial "Defense and the Sequester" rightly likens the abrupt and indiscriminate...

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Letter: Scribblings in the Orchestra Pit

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. To the Editor: Re "Philharmonic Adds More Archives on the Web" (Arts, Briefly item, Feb. 22): The...

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Opinionator: How Much Does Race Still Matter?

In The Conversation, David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns every Wednesday.Tags:Democratic Party, Elections, Governors, Elections, House of Representatives, Obama, Barack, Presidential Election of 2008, Presidential Election of 2012, Race...

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Opinionator: It's the Sugar, Folks

Sugar is indeed toxic. It may not be the only problem with the Standard American Diet, but it's fast becoming clear that it's the major one.A study published in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal PLoS One links increased consumption of sugar with increased...

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Letters: Should Social Security and Medicare Be Means-Tested?

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "Old and Rich? Less Help for You" (Op-Ed, Feb. 20): Yuval Levin has it exactly backward; means-testing...

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Letter: Lone Star Shift? A Daughter of Texas Speaks Out

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. In "Lone Star Blues" (Op-Ed, Feb. 20), Richard Parker writes that "turning Texas blue — or even purple —...

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Letter: Preschool in New York

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. We applaud your editorial board ("Getting Preschool Education Right," editorial, Feb. 16) and David Brooks...

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Op-Ed Columnist: Is Mexico the Comeback Kid?

Visiting Mexico this past week reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from my days in Beirut. It was when a hostess asked her dinner guests during the Lebanese civil war: "Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire?" One of the lessons of...

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Room for Debate: The Constitution's Immoral Compromise

Emory University students marched in anger last week over a decision that was reached more than 200 years ago. They were outraged, among other things, that the school's president called the Constitution's "three-fifths compromise" one of the "pragmatic...

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Letter: Science Award: A Vote for Humanity

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. To the Editor: Re "At $3 Million, New Award Gives Medical Researchers a Dose of Celebrity" (news article,...

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Letter: A Proposal for New York: Instant Runoff Voting

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "Move New York City's Primaries to June" (editorial, Feb. 12): We agree that an immediate solution is...

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Letter: Sheryl Sandberg’s Lead

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. To the Editor: It's a cheap shot to argue, as some do, that because Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating...

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Editorial: Confirm Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary

Barring some last-minute snag, the Senate is expected to vote to end a Republican filibuster on Tuesday and then move on to confirm Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. The filibuster was pernicious from the start, and Mr. Hagel should be approved without...

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Op-Ed Columnist: Rebuilding on Their Own

"Cities change from the bottom up, block by block," said Roberta Gratz, as we drove down Magazine Street, on our way to the Lower Ninth Ward here. The author of "The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs," Gratz,...

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Letter: Testing the Gifted

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "Schools Struggle to Separate the Truly Gifted From the Merely Well-Prepared" (news article, Feb. 18):...

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Letter: Housing the Homeless

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "For Some Landlords, Real Money in the Homeless" (front page, Feb. 9): New Yorkers should be disturbed...

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Letter: Alternative Investments

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re "Complex Investments Prove Risky as Savers Chase Bigger Payoff" (front page, Feb. 11): We at the Investment...

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Letter: Nail Clippers and Guns

Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. To the Editor: I grew up in New York City when most families did not have to have weapons to protect their...

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Letters: Starting Out: The Lawyer’s Apprentice

In "To Practice Law, Apprentice First" (Op-Ed, Feb. 18), John J. Farmer Jr., the dean of Rutgers School of Law in Newark, correctly identifies several faults with legal academia and the legal profession, but his proposal to require law graduates to apprentice...

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Opinion: Tennis: Love-Love

Bounce, bounce, bounce. It's four-all, 40-30, and I'm serving. I toss the ball high and in the act of reaching up I over-adjust my swing and hit it long. Fool. One more chance to redeem myself, to succeed, to set in motion, at the very least, an opportunity...

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Opinion: Ultimate Sport

Founded in the late 1960s, in the heyday of hippiedom, ultimate Frisbee is often associated with pot smoking and people who don't like rules. In college, ultimate is relegated to "club status," the stepchild of athletic departments. Adult leagues...

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Opinion: Solitaire: Me vs. Me

When friends tell me that they are trying to give up smoking, I suggest they take up solitaire. As a reward for having completed a task, as a mini-holiday from everyday stress, as a means of improving one's mood without a doctor's prescription, the...

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Opinion: Poker Is America

Let's start by getting this straight: poker is about money. If you took the money out of it, I wouldn't play. But even when I lose, I've had a good time. I love playing poker as an escape from the world I usually live in, and I especially love playing...

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Opinion: Ping-Pong: Head Game

A gold-toothed man of 76 polishes his $300 paddle. The tall, elegant gentleman who is used to overseeing maquiladoras in Tijuana silently pulls three-star balls out of a box. Mrs. Fukuoka, 80 next month, flicks shots into the corner at such cunning...

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Op-Ed Columnist: Dire Consequences and Denial as Sequester Looms

The sequester's automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are set to go into effect on Friday, and there is no plan as yet to stop it. America, this is your feeble government at its most ineffective and self-destructive. The White House favors a balanced...

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Op-Ed Contributor: A Chance to Right a Wrong in Haiti

On Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, rejected a legal claim for compensation filed in 2011 on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti. Through a spokesperson, Mr. Ban said the claims, brought by a nongovernmental organization, were...

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The City Life: Rats That Won’t Stay Put

Of all the New Yorkers who have coexisted with the city's enduring population of rats, few have had the upper hand like John James Audubon, who retired in the middle of the 19th century to a patch of uptown wilderness at what is now West 156th Street....

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