How Clarence Thomas Came to Reject Affirmative Action
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the second Black justice to sit on the court after Thurgood Marshall, has spent years opposing affirmative action. When the high court struck down the policy las...
14 Jul 202333min
How Affirmative Action Changed Their Lives
Two weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful.Today...
13 Jul 202335min
The Great Resignation is Over
Tens of millions of Americans changed jobs over the past two years, a rare moment of worker power as employees demanded higher pay, and as employers, short on staff, often gave it to them.The tidal wa...
12 Jul 202324min
Many Countries Banned Cluster Munitions. The U.S. Is Sending Them to Ukraine Anyway.
For months, President Biden has been wrestling with one of the most vexing questions in the war in Ukraine: whether to risk letting Ukrainian forces run out of the artillery rounds they desperately ne...
11 Jul 202323min
Will Threads Kill Twitter?
Last week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released Threads, a social media platform to compete with Twitter. In just 16 hours, Threads was downloaded more than 30 million times.Mi...
10 Jul 202333min
The Sunday Read: ‘The Spy Who Called Me’
The wave of scandals that would engulf Spain began with a police raid on a wooded property outside Madrid. It was Nov. 3, 2017, and the target was José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former government spy....
9 Jul 202335min
The Complicated Future of Student Loans
Last week, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s sweeping plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt.Stacy Cowley, a finance reporter for The New York Times, explains what the d...
7 Jul 202324min
Russia After the Rebellion
Last month, a rebellion inside Russia left lingering questions about what really happened and about what the ramifications would be for President Vladimir V. Putin.Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau...
6 Jul 202330min
