Good morning. After Californians poured into the streets of cities across the state to protest police brutality and racism last summer, elected leaders pledged to implement reforms. Los Angeles’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, pledged to move $250 million from city departments — including a $150 million cut from the Police Department …
Read More »What $1.9 Buys You in California, New York and Tennessee
San Francisco | $1.85 Million An early 20th-century castle-like house with three bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 3,049-square-foot lot This house is a block southwest of Corona Heights Park and four blocks from Castro Street. It was owned for decades by an antiques dealer and is ornamented inside and …
Read More »For Some Teens, It’s Been a Year of Anxiety and Trips to the E.R.
During the pandemic, suicidal thinking is up. And families find that hospitals can’t handle adolescents in crisis.
Read More »Opinion | America Is Not ‘Back.’ And Americans Should Not Want It to Be.
“America is back,” President Biden has declared in every major foreign policy speech he has given since taking office. He means to restore what he sees as the essence of global leadership — the United States joining with allies to “fight for our shared values” — that his predecessor defiled. …
Read More »‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘Ida’ and More Offbeat Streaming Options
This month’s off-the-grid U.S. streaming service recommendations include several titles that are a bit wilder than in months past, as if the streamers recognize that we’re clawing at the walls here, and wish to offer appropriate aural and visual accompaniment. But not to worry — we also have period dramas, …
Read More »The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden Administration
Now, the Biden administration is explicitly reversing that position. On Feb. 12, officials at Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that handles citizenship, said employees should not use the word “alien” in “outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners and the general public.” The move, the …
Read More »Opinion | How Did the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Become 3 Out of four?
Few see Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden’s pick for attorney general, as a progressive who will reform the criminal legal system. But the Biden administration recently acknowledged that mass incarceration does not make us safer. And as the nation’s chief federal prosecutor, if confirmed, Judge Garland will have the power …
Read More »Elizabeth R. Duff, First Woman to Drive a Nashville City Bus, Dies at 72
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Growing up in segregated Nashville in the 1950s, Elizabeth R. Duff once tried to sit at the front of a public city bus, where a sign warned that seats were …
Read More »André Leon Talley: Eviction, Bankruptcy and Fashion Grift
Lines are further blurred by the fact that in fashion, professional relationships are often nurtured in nonprofessional settings: on a beach for a photo shoot, where everyone is staying at the same resort; over dinner at Caviar Kaspia in Paris, to celebrate a show. It was general practice, in glossy …
Read More »Honoring One Life Among 500,000
PHILADELPHIA — As Mildred Perry’s coffin was lowered into the snow-covered ground at Greenmount Cemetery on Tuesday, her family sang “I’ll Fly Away,” a traditional selection to close a funeral service. Ms. Perry, 94, thought she had beaten the coronavirus after she contracted it last spring. But eight months later, …
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