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[ad_1] On Alvin Bragg’s third day as the Manhattan District Attorney, in January, 2021, he stated that his office would no longer prosecute low-level offenses such as subway-fare evasion, resistance to arrest, or prostitution unless they were part of an accompanying felony charge. Despite the fact that Bragg had campaigned as a reformer, the bluntness…
[ad_1] Donald Trump said nine words during his arraignment in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday. “Yes,” “thank you,” “I do,” “yes,” “yes,” and “not guilty.” He didn’t say “hugely not guilty” or make a crack about the judge’s race. He appeared in the doorway of the courtroom just before 2:30 P.M., sombre and alone, and…
[ad_1] There are times when I wonder what it would take to separate my six-year-old daughter from her iPad. Like so many parents these days, my wife and I have ceded some of our child-raising duties to a device that, despite having multiple safeguards turned on, still has a terrifying proximity to all the worst…
[ad_1] In February of 2022, when Kharkiv was under constant bombardment, Maxim Rozenfeld, a forty-six-year-old architect who goes by Max, was reading “Man’s Search for Meaning,” a chronicle of the months that its author, Viktor Frankl, spent in a Nazi concentration camp. In one passage, Frankl describes a spike in deaths at the camp during…
[ad_1] Last week, in the face of overwhelming protests and pressure from the Biden Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government announced a delay in its plans to reshape Israel’s judiciary. Netanyahu took office in December as the leader of the most right-wing government in the country’s history. The proposed legislation would give the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, the…
[ad_1] Over the past two weeks, since Donald Trump said on Truth Social that his indictment in Manhattan was imminent, the country has been in thrall to a familiar phenomenon: the frantic Trump news cycle. Once upon a time, it was all too common. An Axios graphic from September, 2017—“The insane news cycle of Trump’s…
[ad_1] On the last day of February, during an unusually mild winter evening for Chicago, hundreds of people jammed into a cavernous, squat brick building in the West Side neighborhood of Garfield Park. If the West Side of Chicago is defined by poverty, violence, and despair, then Garfield Park is its epicenter. But, on this…
[ad_1] Conservative movements to reform education are often defined by what they’re against. At a recent public briefing, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, decried the imposition of critical race theory and mandatory diversity-and-inclusion training at the state’s schools. He pledged to counter “ideological conformity” and “administrative bloat.” On the other hand, when DeSantis and…
[ad_1] On August 1, 1966, a baby girl is born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her mother names her Melanie Lynn. She is placed in foster care for two months to make sure she has no medical issues. Then she is adopted by a couple who live a hundred miles away. On a day in 1970, a…
[ad_1] One piece that spoke to Jackson was Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” “I saw it when I was nineteen years old,” he said. “I don’t know anything about being an old white man in the forties. But the idea that you’re worth more dead than alive . . . However they did it, that idea communicated…