Indeed, recent data from the Household Pulse Survey, an experimental effort from the U.S. Census Bureau to measure Americans’ experiences during the pandemic, suggests that the decreased availability of teachers — both in-person and online — may disproportionately affect low-income students. In the two weeks before the December holiday break, …
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DEPOK, Indonesia — The mother didn’t stop crying from the moment she arrived at the cemetery. In disbelief, she repeatedly clutched and kissed the wooden grave marker bearing the name of her daughter, Isti Yudha Prastika. “Mama waits for you every day,” she sobbed. “Why don’t you return home?” Ms. …
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Sign up to receive the At Home newsletter. Welcome. When I was 22, I was a factotum at a nonprofit theater in New York City. I made fundraising calls and addressed envelopes. The job was pretty humdrum, but it had one massive perk: I’d frequently get free tickets to shows …
Read More »Opinion | Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump
[MUSIC PLAYING] When you walk in the room, do you have sway? archived recording (noel king) — your local member station. You can keep the conversation going with us on social media. I’m Noel King. kara swisher Enjoying the NPR? bryan cranston Yes, I was listening, the last minutes of …
Read More »A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos
The disk is small — just 12 inches in diameter — but it has loomed large in the minds of people across millenniums. Made of bronze, the artifact was inlaid in gold with an ancient vision of the cosmos by its crafters. Over generations, it was updated with new astronomical …
Read More »Opinion | ‘The Ezra Klein Show’: A New Podcast by New York Times Opinion
Premiering Jan. 26 Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican …
Read More »A New Orleans Mardi Gras With a Different Sort of Mask
NEW ORLEANS — Last January, Polly Watts estimated how much alcohol she would need to make it through Mardi Gras at her bar, Avenue Pub — and then ordered considerably more than that. It’s a practice she and other bar owners here use to lock in savings that many liquor …
Read More »Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
Two of the knots, they concluded, were probably small galaxies with small internal motions being cannibalized by the big galaxy. Measurements of the third knot had such large error bars that it could not yet be ruled in or out as the black hole’s location. The fourth, very compact knot …
Read More »Live Updates: Before Impeachment Trial, McConnell Says Capitol Assault Was ‘Provoked’ by Trump
Here’s what you need to know: Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, viewed the inauguration stage on Tuesday.Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said on Tuesday that the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 had been “provoked by the president and other …
Read More »Women Will Support Kamala Harris by Wearing Pearls on Inauguration Day
Ms. Allison doesn’t take a single day for granted. “If I am alive for Inauguration Day and have my health, I will be watching every bit of it,” she said. “For that day I will probably get a little dressed up and put some pearls on.” She wore them on …
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