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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Life Is Suffering, and Everything Is Temporary
A Mexican immigrant shares poetic wisdom from working the fields and escaping poverty.
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How the Trade War with China Will Affect the U.S.
If Trump continues to escalate tariffs on Chinese goods, there will be negative consequences for the economy.
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When the Poor Turn Against the Poor
The American aristocracy is anxious, pitting have-nots against each other.
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Who Milks America’s Cows?
In the U.S., dairy farming has been increasingly relegated to undocumented immigrants.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Photos From the Nationwide “Families Belong Together” Marches
Across the country yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in small towns and big cities to march and voice their opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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The Lucky Ones
Migrant children describe crossing the border and spending days in a detention center.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters For the Love of the Local Newspaper
Regional publications do work that really matters to their communities. And local journalists know it in their bones.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP When a Local Tragedy Becomes National News
Annapolis residents are struggling to make sense of the attack at the Capital Gazette, which is already being politicized.
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Narrowly Escaping the Travel Ban
Fleeing violence in Somalia, a Muslim family finds refuge in the United States after a long period of separation.
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Justice Stevens: Roe Will Be Overturned If Kennedy Retires
Jeffrey Rosen reveals a conversation he had with John Paul Stevens and discusses Anthony Kennedy’s nonpartisan legacy.
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White Racism Ignites Dynamite in Black Ghettos
The frustration in African-American urban populations is a result of decades of systemic injustice.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Normalization of Gun Violence in Poor Communities
A company that uses sensors to recognize the sound of gunshots could help solve the epidemic.
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Owen Freeman An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS
The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting stealth bombers and 500-pound bombs against 70 ragtag fighters
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Mike Blake / Reuters Photos: A Tent City for Detained Children in Texas
Inside a port of entry facility in Tornillo, Texas, temporary housing has been built for the newly overflowing population of unaccompanied minors and the children of detained migrant parents, under the new “zero-tolerance” policy.
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Watch the U.S. Turn Away Asylum Seekers at the Border
Fleeing violence, a family faces the Trump administration's crackdown.
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Jared Soares Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Paul Fusco / Library of Congress, LOOK Magazine ... A Portrait of America: Watching Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral Train Pass By
On June 8, 1968, the body of Robert F. Kennedy was transported by a funeral train from New York to Washington, D.C., and thousands came out to pay their respects as it went by.
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Terray Sylvester / Reuters Photo Updates From Kilauea: Dozens More Homes Destroyed
Over the past week, the lava erupting from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano fissures advanced through two residential subdivisions, wiping out nearly 100 homes.
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Among the First Climate Refugees in the U.S.?
The residents of Tangier island may be forced to abandon their home due to sea-level rise.
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Mario Tama / Getty Photo Updates From Kilauea: The Lava Meets the Sea
Since Kilauea volcano began its most recent eruptive activity on Hawaii's Big Island three weeks ago, the situation has evolved and worsened.
