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Newyork
Al Sharpton: Joe Biden Has a Legacy in Black America. Kamala Harris Can Keep It Going.
Joe Biden is more than this moment. The crisis the president has struggled with for the past month should not erase his some 50 years of near-continuous service to the American people. Among other things, he has delivered time and again for Black ...
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Newyork
Trump’s Allies Say They’ll Enforce the Comstock Act. Believe Them.
Until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, it was hard for feminists to get Americans to take the threat of losing the constitutional right to abortion seriously. Describing Hillary Clinton’s inability, in 2016, to shake pro-choice ...
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Newyork
Why Activists Keep Failing the Causes That Fire Them Up
Here’s the ugly truth: The highest priority for members of Congress is not to legislate. It’s to stay in Congress. Every vote — especially every bipartisan vote — risks marring incumbents’ records of ideological purity and opens the door to primary ...
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US
Students Want Charges Dropped. What Is the Right Price for Protests?
At pro-Palestinian demonstrations, students have broken codes of conduct and, sometimes, the law. But the question of whether and how to discipline them is vexing universities.
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Newyork
Paging Senator Schumer …
What is antisemitism? It’s easy to think of a colloquial definition — hatred and bigotry directed against Jews — but it’s much harder than you might think to define it legally. It doesn’t fit neatly into existing federal anti-discrimination law. This ...
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Newyork
The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did
Last week I wrote about the protests that had come to dominate my professional home, Columbia University, and make headlines across the country. I said that though I did not believe the participants were motivated by antisemitism, the volume, fury ...
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Books
The Voice of a Hundred Faces: Dee Bradley Baker’s ‘Star Wars’ Journey
With “The Bad Batch” ending this week on Disney+, the man who has voiced hundreds of “Star Wars” characters over the past two decades looks back on his run.
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Newyork
Everyone Wants to Seize Russia’s Money. It’s a Terrible Idea.
The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, has brought a glimmer of hope to supporters of the Ukrainian war effort. He suggested to Fox News on March 31 that he would try to rally his divided party behind the so-called REPO Act. That piece of ...
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World
German Business Is Tangled in Red Tape
When Markus Wingens created the position of “energy manager” for the metal heat-treatment company he runs in southwestern Germany, his idea was to increase energy efficiency and attract customers interested in sustainability. But the job has become ...
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Newyork
Trump Says Abortion Will Be Left to the States. Don’t Believe Him.
When Donald Trump was asked about the recent Florida Supreme Court decision upholding his adopted state’s abortion ban, he promised that he would announce where he stands this week, a sign of how tricky the politics of reproductive rights have become ...