Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old in Kansas City, was shot when he knocked on the wrong door while looking for his twin siblings. Twenty-year-old Kaylin Gillis was shot and killed when the car she was in turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend. Two cheerleaders—Payton Washington, 18, and Heather Roth, 21—were shot when one of them accidentally opened the wrong door in a parking lot.
A display of personal materials from the late author’s archive shows her genius, the rigors of her research, and her capacious empathy.
A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.
My very strange and angry breakfast with the former governor
In Yemen, at least 79 people were killed and over 300 injured in a stampede on Wednesday in the capital city of Sana’a. The crowd crush began after armed Houthis fired into the air to control the crowd, striking electrical equipment and causing it to explode. The tragic deaths come as Yemen continues to face one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises following years of fighting between U.S.-backed Saudi forces and the Houthi rebels.
We get an update from South Texas, where Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blew up four minutes after launch Friday and residents reported particulates or ash rained down on their neighborhoods near the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. We speak with Bekah Hinojosa of Another Gulf Is Possible, who has been targeted for participating in protests against SpaceX. She says, “We’re clearly being exploited by a billionaire and his pet project.
We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, “We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism.” He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America.
We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
The former president touted his success in Florida over who he described as the state’s “successful” governor on Friday.
The Florida governor’s request follows flooding that closed an airport for two days and slowed down gas deliveries last week.
Donald Trump, stinging from a rebuke by a leading anti-abortion group, used a speech in Iowa to spotlight his actions as president to try to restrict abortion rights.
The state is a step closer to joining 20 others that have clamped down on the discredited practice.
On Thursday, SpaceX launched its first full version of the “Starship” rocket from a pad on the coast near South Padre Island, Texas. Four minutes into the flight the rocket was deliberately destroyed at an altitude of about 35 km, with debris raining down about a dozen kilometers out into the Gulf.
In many ways, the flight was a triumph. It was the largest rocket ever constructed.
It has been said many times, but it’s important to remember that Jimmy Carter’s most important and impactful years as a leader in the United States came after he left the presidency in 1981.
For months now, the most prominent images put out daily by the Ukrainian military haven’t been scenes from the front, they’ve been images of Ukrainian troops training for the next phase of the war. Not only has Ukraine been getting additional troops ready to go to the front, many of those who had been fighting for weeks or months were pulled back to train on new systems and new tactics.
In newly released audio from 2021, Navarro is heard criticizing Powell, a fellow ally of Donald Trump, for damaging the efforts to overturn the 2020 vote.
This year’s highest-profile electoral contest gave Democrats an undeniable shot in the arm. A liberal judge, running on abortion access and safeguarding democracy, trounced a conservative judge with polar opposite views, flipping a state Supreme Court majority from conservative to progressive.
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
The debate unfolds between groups with different points of reference.
A Q&A with Jonathan Rosen, whose new book, The Best Minds, delves into a fraught friendship and the societal response to schizophrenia
Stripped down to its skeleton, Twitter is the definitive “shame network.
We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
“The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair,” a Trump spokesperson said in a campaign email on Friday.
The former president asked a Fort Myers crowd if they wanted a slice after he’d taken a bite of it.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor.
Spotsylvania County’s superintendent floated the idea as cost-cutting measure before then removing over a dozen titles from shelves.
Letter from scholars and experts on the issue say it meets the criteria, while the U.S. has cited it only as “crimes against humanity.
