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Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force
This is a government agency built on fear and intended to engender fear.
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During the coronavirus pandemic, birds are doing the travel that we can’t.
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The amendment, ratified a century ago, is often described as having “given” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.
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Is It Time to Defund the Department of Homeland Security?
In recent years, the department’s enforcement agenda—including the recent incursion in Portland—has fallen into the direct service of President Trump’s reëlection efforts.
“St. Louis Blues,” a Thrilling Showcase for Nat King Cole and Others
The cast of Allen Reisner’s 1958 bio-pic about the composer W. C. Handy is among the most distinguished in the history of cinema.
“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World
The single-panel comic was confidently modern, and came not just as a minor thrill but as a relief. This month, its creator published new “Far Side” comics, for the first time in twenty-five years, online.
The Online Movement to #FreeBritney
Fans, concerned about a conservatorship that controls Britney Spears’s estate, have begun parsing her Instagram account for clues about her well-being.
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Eye-Catching Art for an Unprecedented Summer, in “Monuments Now”
The outdoor exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park includes Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic ziggurat “Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House,” performances by indigenous American artists, and more.
From 2014: The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez
How the labor leader disserved his dream.
From 1967: Columbia’s Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes
Seven months after the death of the Black writer, Professor James P. Shenton acknowledged at a memorial, “For a while, there lived a poet down the street from Columbia, and Columbia never took the time to find out what he was about.”
From 1948: “The Lottery”
From 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
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Who Gets to Be Italian?
The children of Black immigrants in Italy are dispossessed by a country that doesn’t offer birthright citizenship. Plus, an economist on whether—and how—to reopen schools.
