Mark Meadows’s Testimony in Georgia Case May Have Done Him No Favors
One morning last month in an Atlanta federal courtroom, Mark Meadows, former President Donald J. Trump’s final chief of staff, was in the hot seat. And he was the one…
With Striking Actors Off-Limits, Directors Get Their Close-Ups
For more than half a century, a coterie of critics and filmmakers has been making the case for what’s known as auteur theory: the idea that great directors are the…
Opinion | Alabama Has a Horrible New Way of Killing People on Death Row
Lawyers for Mr. Smith are likely to object to this human experiment on the basis that it violates the Eighth Amendment’s proscription against “cruel and unusual punishments.” It is true…
Some Businesses Make ‘Woke Free’ a Selling Point
Jonathan Isaac is a forward for the National Basketball Association’s Orlando Magic, but he is perhaps better known as someone who chose not to protest police brutality against Black Americans…
Social Security Overpays Billions to People, Many on Disability. Then It Demands the Money Back | naked capitalism
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Opinion | I Was Attacked by Trump and Musk. It Was a Strategy to Change What You See Online.
When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Following the violence of Jan. 6,…
Anguish in an Immigrant Community After a Sheriff’s Deputy Kills 2 Teens
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — They buried them both on Saturday: a pair of identical gray coffins, wheeled out of a hillside church and into the adopted hometown of many of the…
Mayor Adams’s Ability to Freely Spend Money on Migrants May Be Curtailed
As the migrant situation worsens in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is in danger of forfeiting his ability to quickly spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the crisis…
One of America’s First Women’s Colleges Is Accused of Paying Men More
Vassar College, one of the first institutions of higher learning for women in the United States, prides itself for being a pioneer in women’s education and deeply committed to equality…
The Game of Their Lives
As the players idled by the chain-link fence at the side of the field, taking great gulps of air and water and conducting an immediate autopsy of the game that…