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House Democrats squelch a Republican effort to censure Maxine Waters for saying protesters should get more ‘confrontational.’
House Democrats on Tuesday killed a Republican-led effort to censure Representative Maxine Waters for suggesting that racial justice protesters should “get more confrontational.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy moves to force a vote to censure Maxine Waters.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader, moved on Tuesday afternoon to force a vote to censure Democratic Representative Maxine Waters for saying that racial justice protesters should “get ...
H.A.G.S. (Have a Good Summer)
I don’t know how I feel about adulthood, so I called my middle school friends.
China’s Solar Dominance Presents Biden With an Ugly Dilemma
WASHINGTON — President Biden has repeatedly pledged to work with China on issues like climate change while challenging Beijing on human rights and unfair trade practices.
The Tragedy of Harry Uzoka
When Harry Uzoka was 17, he went with his older brother, who was trying to get ahead in modeling, to a meeting at a talent agency in West London, a place of fairy-tale wealth with Edwardian homes and fertile ...
What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?
The Morton Cranial Collection, assembled by the 19th-century physician and anatomist Samuel George Morton, is one of the more complicated holdings of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology ...
Colorado Judge Will Resign After Using Racial Slur, Court Says
A Colorado judge has agreed to resign after the state Supreme Court censured her for repeatedly using a racial slur and making insensitive comments to Black judicial employees regarding police brutality ...
Colorado Judge Censured for Using Racial Slur Will Resign, Court Says
A Colorado judge has agreed to resign after the state Supreme Court censured her for repeatedly using a racial slur and making insensitive comments to Black judicial employees regarding police brutality ...
Merrick Garland vows to combat domestic extremism as he commemorates the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said on Monday that the Justice Department was pouring resources into its effort to stop domestic violent extremists and that those who attacked the United States would ...
France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says
NAIROBI, Kenya — France played a “significant” role in “enabling a foreseeable genocide” in Rwanda, according to a report commissioned by the Rwandan government that was released Monday and that echoed ...
Apple says Parler can return to iPhones after the app makes some changes.
Parler, the social network popular with conservatives, is making its comeback.
U.N. Panel Is Scathing in Its Criticism of a British Report on Race
GENEVA — United Nations human rights experts on Monday issued a devastating critique of a report on race published last month by the British government, accusing its authors of repackaging racist tropes ...
U.N. Panel Calls British Report on Race a Repackaging of ‘Tropes’
GENEVA — United Nations human rights experts on Monday issued a devastating critique of a report on race published last month by the British government, accusing its authors of repackaging racist tropes ...
Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy
American democracy faces many challenges: New limits on voting rights. The corrosive effect of misinformation. The rise of domestic terrorism. Foreign interference in elections. Efforts to subvert the ...
What’s Behind the Growth in Alcohol Consumption?
American deaths from misuse of substances, including alcohol, have increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly across various demographic groups.
Ray McGuire Wants to Show He’s Not Just the Wall Street Candidate
In the intensifying race for mayor of New York City, numerous endorsements have trickled out, but few with the star power of the one jointly given to Raymond J. McGuire last week: Jay-Z, Diddy and Nas ...
The Fed Faces Criticism as It Wades Into Climate and Equity Issues
In mid-2019, Jerome H. Powell fielded a question from reporters that he often faced in those days: Were politics, and particularly a pressure campaign coming from Donald J. Trump’s White House to cut interest ...
John Grisham Leaves the Courtroom for Basketball, and Sudan
There is a basketball term to describe the author John Grisham: volume shooter.
What Joe Biden and I Saw After the U.S. Invaded Afghanistan
I was not surprised that Joe Biden decided to finally pull the plug on the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Back in 2002 it was reasonable to hope that our invasion there to topple Osama bin Laden and his ...
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
Early in the pandemic, word started to travel among Asian-American artists: racist attacks were on the rise. Jamie Chan told a fellow artist, Kenneth Tam, about getting kicked out of an Uber pool ride ...
I Have Read Thousands of Résumés, and I Have Some Advice
In the last decade, I have revised 3,000 résumés while working as a college career adviser. Here is my advice: The strongest will fit on a single page. Exceptions are few. An 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of letter ...
In a Changing Boston, a New Mayor Challenges the Police
BOSTON — Three weeks after her swearing-in as acting mayor of Boston, Kim Janey was enjoying a sort of honeymoon, enacting feel-good policies like forgiving library fines and basking in the spotlight that ...
After a Year of Turmoil, Elite Universities Welcome More Diverse Freshman Classes
Jianna Curbelo attends a career-focused public high school in New York City, works at McDonald’s and lives in the Bronx with her unemployed mother, who did not graduate from college.
I Have Read Thousands of Résumés and I Have Some Advice
In the last decade, I have revised 3,000 résumés while working as a college career adviser. Here is my advice: The strongest will fit on a single page. Exceptions are few. An 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of letter ...
I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.
We need to talk about Margaret Sanger.