Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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James Fallows And Back Where We Started
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Chris Christie's Day at the Beach
The New Jersey governor was photographed at a beach after he’d ordered the state’s beaches closed over a budget impasse.
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James Fallows Greetings From Red Oak
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Foreflight Easing Back Online
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Carries On His Morning Joe Attack
Trump belittled the hosts as “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika.”
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Julio Cortez / AP A Shooting in a New York City Hospital
A former doctor shot and killed one person and wounded six others at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.
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Teresa Crawford / AP Trump Says He's Sending the Feds Into Chicago
The city will get 20 additional federal agents and is also creating a task force to target the flow of illegal guns.
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Alwyn Scott / Reuters Has the Death of American Manufacturing Been Exaggerated?
The sector has shrunk, but remains a significant part of the economy.
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Jim Young / Reuters How Trump Created a Problem for U.S. Farmers
The President derided NAFTA as the worst deal ever, but the agricultural industry doesn’t think so.
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Jim Salter / AP St. Louis to Remove Its Confederate Monument
The Missouri Civil War Museum agreed to dismantle the memorial by Friday.
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Willy Sanjuan / Invision / AP ‘We Have to Have a Massive Revolution in Public Education in the United States’
The Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says improving schools is the way to open the middle class up to more black and white Americans.
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Ulises Rodriguez / Reuters What Trump Doesn't Understand About MS-13
The president may be overstating the gang’s impact.
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Provided by Matthew Ryan Inside Connecticut's Education-Funding Turmoil
Talk about money and test scores often obscures the hopes and struggles of the people who form under-resourced school communities.
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Adam Bettcher / Reuters 'I Don't Want You to Get Shooted'
In a new video, Diamond Reynolds's 4-year-old daughter implores her to be quiet after Philando Castile's death.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Appears to Fault Obama, Calls Otto Warmbier's Death a 'Disgrace'
He said the 22-year-old University of Virginia student “should have been brought home a long time ago” from North Korea.
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Brad Ogbonna Black Gotham
Memorializing Manhattan’s earliest African residents
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Bettmann / Getty The Architect of the Radical Right
How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics
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Reuters Otto Warmbier Dies
The University of Virginia student who was imprisoned by North Korea was returned in a coma last week to his family.
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Matt Slocum / AP A Mistrial in the Cosby Case
The jury was deadlocked after six days of deliberation, and prosecutors have vowed to retry the former actor and comedian.
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Eric Miller / Reuters Jury Acquits Officer Who Shot Philando Castile
Jeronimo Yanez was charged with second-degree manslaughter.
