American
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World
‘Taking Venice’: The Strange Story of the U.S. Government and a Painter
The documentary offers a glimpse of how the arts were treated very differently in midcentury America.
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Newyork
Don’t Slam the Door on Inexpensive Chinese Electric Vehicles
President Biden came out swinging this week when he announced a series of steep tariffs on Chinese imports, including 25 percent on certain steel and aluminum products, 50 percent on semiconductors and solar panels and 100 percent on electric ...
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Books
The Massacre America Forgot
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
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Newyork
The End of TikTok Is a Propaganda Win for Beijing
When President Biden signed a bill requiring that TikTok be divested from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, members of Congress hailed the law as a blow to Beijing. They shouldn’t be so quick to celebrate. The law would at best partially mitigate the ...
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Books
One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
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World
Japanese American Civil Rights Group Pushes for Gaza Cease-Fire
The Japanese American Citizens League, one of the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organizations, called on Thursday for a negotiated cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, following months of pressure from younger members who believed the ...
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World
U.S. Repatriates 11 American Citizens From ISIS War Camps in Syria
The group — the largest set of Americans retrieved from the war zone — was joined by a 9-year-old noncitizen whose brother is an American.
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World
Russia Will Keep U.S. Soldier in Custody for Months, Local Media Reports
The American soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, was detained last week. He was traveling home after being stationed in South Korea, according to the U.S. authorities.
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News
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
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Newyork
When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer
In the first half of a January game at Stamford Bridge, the London stadium where the Chelsea Football Club has played since its founding in 1905, seven well-groomed spectators in green velvet jackets stood up together from their seats behind the ...