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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 act…
2 years, 10 months ago
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 t…
2 years, 10 months ago
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,…
2 years, 10 months ago
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 …
2 years, 10 months ago
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, T…
2 years, 10 months ago
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 Jo…
2 years, 10 months ago
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 r…
2 years, 10 months ago
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 Vla…
2 years, 10 months ago
How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has become a sensation on YouTube for ostentatious and sometimes absurd acts of altruism.Today, Max Read, a…
2 years, 10 months ago
From Serial: ‘The Retrievals’
The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a…
2 years, 10 months ago