Tomorrow, April 22nd—Earth Day—scientists, people who love science, and citizens concerned that government policies are increasingly detached from empirical reality will march in Washington, D.C., and nearly five hundred other cities around the world. Like any large group of protesters, Read More …
When the House Republican Conference gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, it was greeted by a couple of motivational songs: “Eye of the Tiger” and “Taking Care of Business.” On Twitter, the A.P.’s Erica Werner also relayed the message that the Party’s Read More …
In 1980, the year that Congress passed the Refugee Act, the U.S. accepted more than two hundred thousand refugees. The law created a robust program for accepting people who had been displaced by war and strife, and made refugee policy Read More …
Click:PWA87502 For the past twenty years, Daryl Kelly has been imprisoned in New York State for a crime that may never have happened. He was living with his wife and five children in Newburgh, New York, in the fall of Read More …
On Friday morning, Laura Loomer woke up early and took a Metro-North train from West Harrison, New York, where she lives, to Manhattan. She made her way to Central Park and secured a second-row ticket to that night’s performance of Read More …
Three years ago, shortly after I moved to the city, I was introduced to the whisper network—the unofficial information channel that women use to warn each other about men whose sexual behavior falls on the spectrum from creepy to criminal—for Read More …
Thirty-seven years after he brought independence to the last outpost of the British Empire in Africa, Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is no more. Mugabe’s resignation, announced in Harare on Tuesday, ushers in a new era for his country, and his Read More …
Three weeks ago, the Attorney General of Tennessee, Herbert Slatery, agreed to meet with Stephanie Teatro and one of her colleagues from the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition in his office, in Nashville. Slatery was one of ten Republican Read More …
Minutes before an international war-crimes tribunal in The Hague convicted him, last week, of committing genocide, Ratko Mladić, the former Serbian Army commander, now a doddering seventy-four-year-old man, mocked the charges against him. “Everything you said is pure lies,” Mladić Read More …
The problem of the Presidential tweet is circular. At the beginning of the Trump Presidency, it seemed that tweets might be a distraction or a sideline, a deletable part of the record. Some journalists advocated not covering the tweets at Read More …