“Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan support,” Mr. Trump said, standing beside the judge and his wife, Louise, as White House officials and Republican lawmakers looked on. “It is an extraordinary résumé — as good as it gets.”

multiple centers of gravity

Monday’s events have transformed the confirmation of Mr. Sessions into a referendum on Mr. Trump’s immigration order

swallowing its sibling

cannibalism was more common in females than in males

“Over my dead body.”

In 2014, a group of Stanford researchers studied 19,000 SNAP participants and compared whether banning sugary drinks or incentivizing fruits and vegetables would affect obesity rates. The researchers found that the incentive program would not. But banning sugary drinks from SNAP, they said, “would be expected to significantly reduce obesity prevalence and Type 2 diabetes incidence, particularly among ages 18 to 65 and some racial and ethnic minorities.”

PepsiCo lobbied the federal government to prevent restrictions on food stamp purchases in 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit that tracks money in politics. Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and the sugar industry lobbied against a Florida bill in 2012

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, better known as WIC, and the national school lunch program have strict nutrition standards. Medicare pays for necessary medical procedures but does not reimburse for ones it considers harmful, ineffective or unnecessary. SNAP, Dr. Ludwig said, should be structured similarly.

One limitation of the report was that it could not always distinguish when SNAP households used their benefits, other money or a combination of the two to pay for transactions.

the U.S.D.A. said it was unfair to single out food stamp recipients for their soft drink consumption.

The findings show that the No. 1 purchases by SNAP households are soft drinks, which accounted for 5 percent of the dollars they spent on food. The category of ‘sweetened beverages,’ which includes soft drinks, fruit juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas, accounted for almost 10 percent of the dollars they spent on food. “In this sense, SNAP

“It was a huge crowd, a magnificent crowd. I haven’t seen such a crowd as big as this,” Mr. Hoyer told CNN, quoting Mr. Trump. He added that Mr. Trump did not “spend a lot of time on that, but it was clear that it was still on his mind.”

Our audience inhabits a complex, polluted information environment; our role is to help them navigate it — not to pretend it doesn’t exist. The need to show our work and earn trust has never been more important, since once reliable official sources are peddling “alternative facts” — as the White House press secretary did Saturday.

we trust you to reckon with a messy, sometimes uncertain reality.

PETER BAKER,

The first wave of feminists fought for more than 70 years to win their biggest demand; S

They have forgotten — again — that this great nation will endure and will prosper only if we all prosper together.

Or — worse — Mr. Trump’s vow to end “political correctness” and make this, at least rhetorically, the same white man’s America it was in Jackson’s time?

I don’t buy it. Hillary Clinton’s campaign wasn’t that bad, and Mr. Trump was exposed enough for any thinking adult to see exactly what he is.

a man who says he has never asked God for forgiveness, who refers to the Eucharist with characteristic humility (“I drink my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker"), who mocks our military heroes, who lumbers about a stage proclaiming, “I alone can fix it!,” who dismissed a working man after the election with a tweet that read in part, “Spend more time working — less talking”

I mean a greater, almost spiritual faith that I had in my fellow citizens and their better instincts,

It’s inescapable, considering what we are: the first republic of the modern age, a nation of immigrants, haven to so many peoples from around the world. We have, like no other country, for better and for ill, dominated the modern world through both our hard power and our soft, our weapons but also our ideas.

“let America be America again/The land that never yet has been, and yet must be”

NO, I’m not over it.

“There is a real problem with the elite privates and flagship publics in not serving as many low-income students as they should,

On several dozen of campuses, remarkably, fewer students hail from the entire bottom half of the income distribution than from the top 1 percent.

Lower-income students who attend elite colleges fare even better on average than low-income students elsewhere

Pavia’s story is the classic story of the American dream.

But the success stories are real, too, and they’re fairly common.

Improving higher education should be a national priority.

Dropout rates are high, saddling students with debt but no degree.

These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.

encouraging

The most comprehensive study of college graduates yet conducted, based on millions of anonymous tax filings and financial-aid records.

This discourages

affidavits

But it will take more than that to fix a police culture where there is almost no accountability.

wanton

the city fails to even investigate a majority of the misconduct cases that it is required by law to examine.

A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium

The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.

Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.

But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

You came by the tens of millions to become part of an historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

Jan. 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.

The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.

we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people.

Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power

a great national effort to rebuild our country

God bless you and God bless America. Thank you. God bless America.

in the hands of a wealthy minority

the same almighty creator

We stand at the birth of a new millennium

constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.

we will be protected by God

The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity

There is a bit of a ring here of Reagan

Mr. Trump studied

subsidized the armies of other countries

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

This is literally true

Marilynne Robinson

Barbara Kingsolver

Mr. Díaz

Zadie Smith

Mr. Whitehead

Dave Eggers

Saul Bellow

Philip Roth

Jhumpa Lahiri

Junot Díaz

A Bend in the River

The Sixth Extinction

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Underground Railroad

The Woman Warrior

The Golden Notebook

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Niebuhr

Sartre

Emerson

Nietzsche

St. Augustine

Malcolm X

DuBois

Wright

Hughes

Ellison

Baldwin

“Dreams From My Father,”

“The Three-Body Problem”

Gettysburg Address

Nelson Mandela

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Gandhi

Lincoln

You desperately need a good pitch when you have a bad company. When you have a great company, you don’t need a great pitch.

hoisted one hand up, flailed his arms and mocked

live out loud.

the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy.

An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like.

Our writing is more relaxed than it used to be — that’s intentional. I actually think some newspaper writing of a generation ago was too stilted, was too hard to follow, too hard to understand

I sat down with the executive editor, Dean Baquet

cannot be edited in the same way

a continuing emphasis on video and multimedia online,

“It’s scary to say it, but maybe companies will have to be the standard-bearers for morals right now,”

Nicholas Reville, a board member of the Participatory Culture Foundation who has worked with the Sleeping Giants

it’s about using corporations as shields to protect vulnerable people from bullying and hate crimes.

I expected that other companies would want to trumpet their own Breitbart departures. It seemed an easy win for corporate P.R. to distance itself from Klan-rally-like riffs like this one — “every tree, every rooftop, every picket fence, every telegraph pole in the South should be festooned with the Confederate battle flag.” (Telegraph poles!?)

Programmatic ads can also follow individuals around the internet, based on their browsing history, as happened with Mr. Philips. A single targeted ad could cost just a fraction of a penny, but the pennies add up to a billion-dollar industry.

“We are trying to stop racist websites by stopping their ad dollars,”

Within hours, they received their first response, and they realized that they had stumbled across a potentially powerful tactic.

gobsmacked

“This has been the longest month of my life.”

ad dollars.

earth and environmental science professor

Mr. President-elect, are you listening?

In the short and medium term, we must step up assistance to climate refugees and sufferers, both to provide relief and to assist with new livelihoods that adjust to new climate realities

She broke off cactus pads, scraped off the thorns and boiled them briefly, and the boys ate them — even though they provide little nutrition. “My heart is breaking because I have nothing to give them,” Fideline said. “I have no choice.”

The World Food Program

Those of us in the rich world who have emitted most of the carbon bear a special responsibility to help people like these Madagascar villagers who are simultaneously least responsible for climate change and most vulnerable to it.

certainly not fretting about American politics — for she has never heard of either President Obama or Donald Trump.

the United Nations says.

Trump has repeatedly mocked climate change, once even calling it a hoax fabricated by China.

overseas governments that don’t want to curb carbon emissions.

For the next half century or so, we will see students learning less in school and economies held back, because in 2017 we allowed more than a million kids to be malnourished just here in southern Africa, collateral damage from our carbon-intensive way of life.

Now they understand there is a far broader toll: When children in utero and in the first few years of life are malnourished, their brains don’t develop properly. As a result, they may suffer permanently impaired brain function

Sonjona realizes that it is wrong to marry off a 10-year-old, but he also knows it is wrong to see his daughter starve.

because no one can afford the bride price of about $32.

Not one of the children in the village has ever had a bath.

In America, climate change costs families beach homes; in poor countries, parents lose their children.

The immediate cause of the droughts

a related drought has devastated East Africa and the Horn of Africa and is expected to continue this year. The U.N. World Food Program has urgently appealed for assistance, but only half the money needed has been donated.

“I feel so powerless as a mother, because I know how much I love my child,” she said. “But whatever I do just doesn’t work.”

Trump should come and feel these children’s ribs and watch them struggle for life.

Students need two skills to succeed as lawyers and as professionals: listening and communicating. We must listen with care, which requires patience, focus, eye contact and managing moments of ennui productively — perhaps by double-checking one’s notes instead of a friend’s latest Instagram. Multitasking and the mediation of screens kill empathy.