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A Wave of Anti-Transgender ...

04.20.2021

Just four months into 2021 and there have already been more than 80 bills, introduced in mostly Republican-controlled legislatures, that aim to restrict transgender rights, mostly in sports and medical care. But what’s the thinking behind the laws, and why ...

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04.21.2021 Guilty of All Charges On Tuesday, after three weeks of jury selection, another three weeks of testimony and 10 hours of deliberations, Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd. The jurors found Mr. ...
04.20.2021 A Wave of Anti-Transgender Legislation Just four months into 2021 and there have already been more than 80 bills, introduced in mostly Republican-controlled legislatures, that aim to restrict transgender rights, mostly in sports and medical care. But what’s the thinking behind the laws, and why ...
04.19.2021 A Difficult Diplomatic Triangle When a nuclear fuel enrichment site in Iran blew up this month, Tehran immediately said two things: The explosion was no accident, and the blame lay with Israel. Such an independent action by Israel would be a major departure from ...
04.18.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘Voices Carry’ The Skagit Valley choir last sang together on the evening of March 10, 2020. This rehearsal, it would turn out, was one of the first documented superspreader events of the pandemic. Of the 61 choristers who attended practice that night, ...
04.16.2021 The Agony of Pandemic Parenting This episode contains strong language and emotional descriptions about the challenges of parenting during the pandemic, so if your young child is with you, you might want to listen later. Several months ago, The Times opened up a phone line ...
04.15.2021 The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause Explained Today, science writer Carl Zimmer explains the decision-making process, how long the suspension might last and the impact it could have not only in the U.S. but around the world. Guest: Carl Zimmer, a science writer and author of the ...
04.14.2021 A Legal Winning Streak for Religion In a ruling a few days ago, the Supreme Court lifted coronavirus restrictions imposed by California on religious services held in private homes. The decision gave religious Americans another win against government rules that they say infringe on their freedom ...
04.13.2021 Cryptocurrency’s Newest Frontier It started with a picture posted on the internet, and ended in an extravagant cryptocurrency bidding war. NFTs, or “nonfungible tokens,” have recently taken the art world by storm. Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for The Times, speaks with the ...
04.12.2021 Europe’s Vaccination Problem Europe’s vaccination process was expected to be well-orchestrated and efficient. So far, it’s been neither. Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for The Times, spoke with our colleague Matina Stevis-Gridneff about Europe’s problems and why things could get worse before they ...
04.11.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’ The author Philip Roth, who died in 2018, was not sure whether he wanted to be the subject of a biography. In the end, he decided that he wanted to be known and understood. His search for a biographer was ...
04.09.2021 Odessa, Part 3: The Band Bus Quarantine Last fall, as Odessa High School brought some students back to campus with hybrid instruction, school officials insisted mask wearing, social distancing and campus contact tracing would keep students and faculty safe. And at the beginning of the semester, things ...
04.08.2021 The Case Against Derek Chauvin In Minneapolis, the tension is palpable as the city awaits the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of murdering George Floyd last summer. The court proceedings have been both emotional — the video of Mr. ...
04.07.2021 Targeting Overseas Tax Shelters The I.R.S. says that Bristol Myers Squibb, America’s second-largest drug company, has engaged a tax-shelter setup that has deprived the United States of $1.4 billion in tax revenue. The Biden administration is looking to put an end to such practices ...
04.06.2021 A Vast Web of Vengeance How one woman with a grudge was able to slander an entire family online, while the sites she used avoided blame.
04.05.2021 A Military That Murders Its Own People Two months ago, Myanmar’s military carried out a coup, deposing the country’s elected civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and closing the curtains on a five-year experiment with democracy. Since then, the Burmese people have expressed their discontent through protest ...
04.04.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers’ During the pandemic, cheerleader-ish girls performing slithery hip-hop dances to rap music on TikTok has been the height of entertainment — enjoyed both genuinely and for laughs. Addison Rae, one such TikToker, is the second-most-popular human being on the platform, ...
04.02.2021 Inside the Biden Infrastructure Plan President Biden is pushing the boundaries of how most Americans think of infrastructure. In a speech on Wednesday, he laid out his vision for revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure in broad, sweeping terms: evoking racial equality, climate change and support for ...
04.01.2021 A Union Drive at Amazon Since its earliest days, Amazon has been anti-union, successfully quashing any attempt by workers to organize. A group of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., just might change that — depending on the outcome of a vote this ...
03.31.2021 A Conversation With Senator Raphael Warnock Republican-led legislatures are racing to restrict voting rights, in a broad political effort that first began in the state of Georgia. To many Democrats, it’s no coincidence that Georgia — once a Republican stronghold — has just elected its first ...
03.30.2021 A National Campaign to Restrict Voting Georgia, a once reliably red state, has been turning more and more purple in recent years. In response, the Republican state legislature has passed a package of laws aimed at restricting voting. Today, we look at those measures and how ...
03.29.2021 The Trial of Derek Chauvin On the docket on Monday at a Minneapolis courthouse is the biggest police brutality case in the United States in three decades: the trial of Derek Chauvin, a white former police officer accused of killing George Floyd, a Black man, ...
03.28.2021 The Sunday Read: 'Rembrandt in the Blood' It was in the winter of 2016 that Jan Six, a Dutch art dealer based in Amsterdam, made a discovery that would upend his life. He was leafing through a Christie’s catalog when he spotted a painting featuring a young ...
03.26.2021 A Nursing Home’s First Day Out of Lockdown The Good Shepherd Nursing Home in West Virginia lifted its coronavirus lockdown in February. For months, residents had been confined to their rooms, unable to mix. But with everybody now vaccinated, it was finally time to see one another again. ...
03.25.2021 The State of Vaccinations The United States has never undertaken a vaccination campaign of the scale and speed of the Covid-19 program. Despite a few glitches, the country appears to be on track to offer shots to all adults who want one by May ...
03.24.2021 Joe Biden’s 30-Year Quest for Gun Control In less than a week, the United States has seen two deadly mass shootings: one in Boulder, Colo., and another in the Atlanta area. These events prompted President Biden to address the nation on Tuesday. In his speech, he said ...
03.23.2021 A Food Critic Loses Her Sense of Smell For Tejal Rao, a restaurant critic for The Times, a sense of smell is crucial to what she does. After she contracted the coronavirus, it disappeared. It felt almost instant. “If you’re not used to it, you don’t know what’s ...
03.22.2021 The Cruel Reality of Long Covid-19 This episode contains strong language. Ivan Agerton of Bainbridge Island, Wash., was usually unflappable. A 50-year-old adventure photographer and former marine, he has always been known to be calm in a crisis. Soon after testing positive for the coronavirus this ...
03.21.2021 The Sunday Read: 'Beauty of the Beasts' The bright elastic throats of anole lizards, the Fabergé abdomens of peacock spiders and the curling, iridescent and ludicrously long feathers of birds-of-paradise. A number of animal species possess beautifully conspicuous and physically burdensome features. Many biologists have long fit ...
03.20.2021 Bonus: The N-Word is Both Unspeakable and Ubiquitous. 'Still Processing' is Back, and They're Confronting it. Introducing the new season of “Still Processing.” The first episode is the one that the co-hosts Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris have been wanting to make for years. They’re talking about the N-word. It’s both unspeakable and ubiquitous. A weapon ...
03.19.2021 The Ruthless Rise and Lonely Decline of Andrew Cuomo Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is known as a hard-charging, ruthless political operator. But his power has always come from two sources: legislators’ fear of crossing him and his popularity among the electorate. After recent scandals over bullying allegations, ...
03.18.2021 A Murderous Rampage in Georgia The pandemic has precipitated a rise in anti-Asian violence in the U.S. However, the full extent of this violence may be obscured by the difficulty in classifying attacks against Asian-Americans as hate crimes. A recent shooting at three spas in ...
03.17.2021 The Fight for (and Against) a $15 Minimum Wage The passage of the stimulus package last week ushered in an expansion of the social safety net that Democrats have celebrated. But one key policy was not included: a doubling of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Today, ...
03.16.2021 A Wind Farm in Coal Country Wyoming has powered the nation with coal for generations. Many in the state consider the industry part of their identity. It is in this state, and against this cultural backdrop, that one of America’s largest wind farms will be built. ...
03.15.2021 Life After the Vaccine in Israel Just a few months ago, Israel was in dire shape when it came to the coronavirus. It had among the highest daily infection and death rates in the world. Now, Israel has outpaced much of the world in vaccinating its ...
03.14.2021 The Sunday Read: 'The Case for the Subway' Long before it became an archaic and filthy symbol of everything wrong with America’s broken cities, the New York subway was a marvel. In recent years, it has been falling apart. Today on The Sunday Read, a look at why ...
03.12.2021 Odessa, Part 2: Friday Night Lights In 1988, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, was so good that it became the inspiration for a book, movie and, eventually, the television series “Friday Night Lights.” And in the decades since, as West Texas has weathered ...
03.11.2021 Diana and Meghan This episode contains references to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. In 1995, Diana, Princess of Wales, made a decision that was unprecedented for a member of the British royal family: She sat down with the BBC to speak openly about ...
03.10.2021 ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’: A Capitol Police Officer Recounts Jan. 6 When Officer Harry Dunn reporter for work at the Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6, he expected a day of relatively normal protests. But the situation soon turned dangerous. Today, we talk with Officer Dunn about his experience fending ...
03.09.2021 A Safety Net for American Children Even as recently as a year ago, even the most cleareyed analysts thought it was a long shot. But this week, a child tax credit is expected to be passed into law, as part of the economic stimulus bill. The ...
03.08.2021 Biden's Dilemmas, Part 2: Children at the Border The number of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border is growing — and, with it, anxiety in the Biden administration. Newer concerns have mixed with longstanding ones to create a situation at the border that could become untenable. Today, ...
03.07.2021 The Sunday Read: 'The Lonely Death of George Bell' Thousands die in New York every year. Some of them alone. The city might weep when the celebrated die, or the innocent are slain, but for those who pass in an unwatched struggle, there is no one to mourn for ...
03.05.2021 Biden’s Dilemmas, Part 1: Punishing Saudi Arabia Joe Biden has had harsh words for the Saudis and the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It appeared that the period of appeasement toward the Saudis in the Trump administration was over. But the Biden administration’s ...
03.04.2021 How Close Is the Pandemic’s End? It’s been almost a year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. And the virus is persisting: A downward trend in the U.S. caseload has stalled, and concern about the impact of variants is growing. Yet ...
03.03.2021 Can Bill Gates Vaccinate the World? When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Microsoft founder Bill Gates was the most powerful and provocative private individual operating within global public health. Today, we look at the role he has played in public health and his latest mission: procuring ...
03.02.2021 The $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan The Senate is preparing to vote on another stimulus bill — the third of the pandemic. The bill has the hallmarks of a classic stimulus package: money to help individual Americans, and aid to local and state governments. It also ...
03.01.2021 Texas After the Storm Even as the cold has lifted and the ice has melted in Texas, the true depth of the devastation left by the state’s winter storm can be difficult to see. Today, we look at the aftermath through the eyes of ...
02.28.2021 The Sunday Read: ‘Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t’ It all started when Sigrid E. Johnson was 62. She got a call from an old friend, asking her to participate in a study about DNA ancestry tests and ethnic identity. She agreed. Ms. Johnson thought she knew what the ...
02.26.2021 Odessa, Part 1: The School Year Begins Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic — and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process. For the past six months, The New York Times has documented students’ ...
02.25.2021 Fate, Domestic Terrorism and the Nomination of Merrick Garland Five years ago, Judge Merrick B. Garland became a high-profile casualty of Washington’s political dysfunction. President Barack Obama selected him to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but Senate Republicans blocked his nomination. ...
02.24.2021 When Covid Hit Nursing Homes, Part 2: ‘They’re Not Giving Us an Ending’ When the pandemic was bearing down on New York last March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration issued a directive that allowed Covid-19 patients to be discharged into nursing homes in a bid to free up hospital beds for the sickest patients. ...

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Guilty of All Charges

A Wave of Anti-Transgender Legislation

A Difficult Diplomatic Triangle

The Sunday Read: ‘Voices Carry’

The Agony of Pandemic Parenting

The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause Explained

A Legal Winning Streak for Religion

Cryptocurrency’s Newest Frontier

Europe’s Vaccination Problem

The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’

Odessa, Part 3: The Band Bus Quarantine

The Case Against Derek Chauvin

Targeting Overseas Tax Shelters

A Vast Web of Vengeance

A Military That Murders Its Own People

The Sunday Read: ‘The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers’

Inside the Biden Infrastructure Plan

A Union Drive at Amazon

A Conversation With Senator Raphael Warnock

A National Campaign to Restrict Voting

The Trial of Derek Chauvin

The Sunday Read: 'Rembrandt in the Blood'

A Nursing Home’s First Day Out of Lockdown

The State of Vaccinations

Joe Biden’s 30-Year Quest for Gun Control

A Food Critic Loses Her Sense of Smell

The Cruel Reality of Long Covid-19

The Sunday Read: 'Beauty of the Beasts'

Bonus: The N-Word is Both Unspeakable and Ubiquitous. 'Still Processing' is Back, and They're Confronting it.

The Ruthless Rise and Lonely Decline of Andrew Cuomo

A Murderous Rampage in Georgia

The Fight for (and Against) a $15 Minimum Wage

A Wind Farm in Coal Country

Life After the Vaccine in Israel

The Sunday Read: 'The Case for the Subway'

Odessa, Part 2: Friday Night Lights

Diana and Meghan

‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’: A Capitol Police Officer Recounts Jan. 6

A Safety Net for American Children

Biden's Dilemmas, Part 2: Children at the Border

The Sunday Read: 'The Lonely Death of George Bell'

Biden’s Dilemmas, Part 1: Punishing Saudi Arabia

How Close Is the Pandemic’s End?

Can Bill Gates Vaccinate the World?

The $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan

Texas After the Storm

The Sunday Read: ‘Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t’

Odessa, Part 1: The School Year Begins

Fate, Domestic Terrorism and the Nomination of Merrick Garland

When Covid Hit Nursing Homes, Part 2: ‘They’re Not Giving Us an Ending’

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