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In August of 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived at a port in Virginia.
On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to truthfully tell the story of black Americans — and of America itself.
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Lil Nas X wants to be not just a pop star but a visibly gay one — founded on genuine pride and comfort. After years of hiding himself, he is trying to be a hitmaker, a pop star, an out gay man and a sexual being.
Read @jazzedloon's profile. nyti.ms/3dTHs1j
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“Black Americans have also been, and continue to be, foundational to the idea of American freedom.”
Congratulations to @nhannahjones, whose #1619 Project essay has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
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We're publishing next week's cover story early:
U.S. law enforcement failed to see the threat of white nationalism. From the FBI to the DHS to state police — now they have no idea how to stop it.
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Each of the stories in the #1619project takes up a modern phenomenon and reveals its history.
From the lack of healthcare to mass incarceration, from the brutality of capitalism to the epidemic of sugar — no part of America has been untouched by slavery. nyti.ms/31JsMtb
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White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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K-Pop has taken most of the world by storm, but Chile represents a somewhat unlikely conquest. nyti.ms/2pbKgLC
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Our cover story this week:
@dannyhakim and @Jo_becker report on how blurred the lines between Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas’s interests became during the effort to overturn the 2020 election. nyti.ms/3InEPSk
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Introducing our annual Music Issue: The 25 songs that matter right now. nyti.ms/2TArzno
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The United States women’s national soccer team is the best in the world and has been for decades.
By their players’ calculations, they are making as little as 38 cents to their male counterparts’ dollar.
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The goal of the #1619project is to reframe American history, and to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. nyti.ms/31JsMtb
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.@Harry_Styles managed to repurpose the past to become a new kind of star. “Adore You” lets him show off the full, androgynous range of his voice nyti.ms/2TYy8hQ
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A diet.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents
premature death.
It shields children from neglect. nyti.ms/2SVXCie
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The United States women’s national soccer team is the best in the world and has been for decades.
By their players’ calculations, they are making as little as 38 cents to their male counterparts’ dollar.
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents premature death.
It shields children from neglect.
The $15 minimum wage doesn't just improve lives. It saves them. nyti.ms/2SUDf4I
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After just 18 months, Trump has “flipped” two circuits — the Sixth and Seventh — from liberal to conservative. Two more — the Eighth and the 11th — are on the verge of tipping. nyti.ms/2wf7o1C
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents premature death.
It shields children from neglect.
The $15 minimum wage doesn't just improve lives. It saves them. nyti.ms/2E5H5Ot
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents premature death.
It shields children from neglect.
The $15 minimum wage doesn't just improve lives. It saves them. nyti.ms/2E4il9a
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"The police are a reflection of a society. They’re not a rogue alien organization that came to torment the black community. They’re enforcing segregation. The police are, in some respects, a border patrol, they patrol the border between the two Americas" nyti.ms/2UN3BER
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In “The Man,” Taylor Swift channels her sly braggadocio into a broader protest against the sexism and skepticism that all women face nyti.ms/38MbcYy
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A major Times investigation suggests that the U.S.-led air war against ISIS in Iraq is killing far more civilians than previously believed. nyti.ms/2hxyBEM
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"Mitski’s music grants people whom society often treats as marginal the screaming vividness of main characters, and this is a huge part of its appeal."
@lindsayzoladz profiles @mitskileaks. nyti.ms/3J6Oj4R
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Her ambition, Naomi Osaka once told a reporter, was “to be the very best, like no one ever was”
She explained: “I’m sorry; that’s the Pokémon theme song. But, yeah, to be the very best, and go as far as I can go”
Today she beat her idol, Serena Williams
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THIS WEEK'S COVER: Riz Ahmed does not want to do away with categories; he wants them to be big enough to include reality. He wants them to encompass No Man’s Land. nyti.ms/2PPb1n8
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THIS WEEK’S COVER: @ladygaga isn’t done shape-shifting yet. @rachsyme profiles the ‘‘A Star Is Born’’ actress in her latest reinvention.
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It's been 400 years since the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived at Virginia.
Tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET, we'll remember this anniversary with an evening of conversation featuring @nhannahjones, @jbouie, @eveewing and more, as we launch our #1619project.
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“Sometimes I wonder if the Asian-American experience is what it’s like when you’re thinking about everyone else, but nobody else is thinking about you.”
In this week's cover story, @jaycaspiankang profiles Steven Yeun, the star of “Minari.” nyti.ms/2YCI8Qu
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If language is a power game, then Bad Bunny is winning.
Our 2020 Culture Issue is here.
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A diet.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents
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It shields children from neglect. nyti.ms/2E3AuE1
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At 23, Josh Owens quit film school to work as a video editor for Alex Jones. This is his account of the years he spent within the Infowars empire. nyti.ms/2rT3YSJ
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Four years after her debut album, @lorde is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude. nyti.ms/2o61byS
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Val Kilmer was the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history. But he was equally a fringe weirdo. @taffyakner profiles the 80s movie star (and HUGE Mark Twain-head)
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When Ikeem Jones starts to dance for commuters on the E train, nobody looks away. Commuters ask to be amazed — and he delivers: nyti.ms/2MnWZLu
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“What we need to worry about is the guy who is riled up by this rhetoric and decides to go out and do something on his own. We have people who are ticking time bombs”
Read the full story on the government's failure to curtail the white nationalist threat nyti.ms/2Dku8SQ
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This week’s cover: 🚨🚨🚨 MAYA RUDOLPH, profiled by @caityweaver 🚨🚨🚨 nytimes.com/2018/09/14/magaz…
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Instagram — free, chaotic and immediate — has become a place to watch great photographers work out their obsessions. nyti.ms/1RImMrD
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"I am absolutely fascinated by the number of things that I did in the ’80s and ’90s with 'Sandman' that are now getting yelled at for being quote-unquote woke," Neil Gaiman tells us nyti.ms/3vzxgng
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25 songs that matter now.
Our annual Music Issue is here: nyti.ms/2xxFEsu
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“Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones nyti.ms/31JsMtb
Our entire issue this week: #1619Project
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He makes 1.2 million dollars a year.
He’s unhappy because his work feels meaningless.
He can’t take a pay cut because he feels locked into the lifestyle.
He's one of America's many wealthy elite who are miserable with their lives. nyti.ms/2SQ6W74
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"It’s not that just that Donald Trump is president. It’s that he has empowered the worst people in the world." nyti.ms/2wojhmT
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“Her reporting on segregation in housing and education has performed a critical public service.”
Congratulations to our very own @nhannahjones, winner of the 2018 John Chancellor Award.
We're tweeting a thread of some of her landmark @nytmag stories: nyti.ms/2DwvCu7
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"I’m not scared of death. I don’t know what it is. How could I be afraid of something I don’t know anything about?"
Revisiting our January 10th interview with the late Cicely Tyson, who has died at 96.
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White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. nyti.ms/2QfliZm
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In this atmosphere of apparent indifference on the part of government officials and law enforcement, a virulent, and violent, far-right movement has grown and metastasized. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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Thirty years ago, we almost saved the planet. This is the story of how we failed. nyti.ms/2LQWYOB
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This week's cover: The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning, by @matthewshaer nyti.ms/2r9tez3
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Our cover this week: Madonna at 60.
@vanessagrigor profiles the original queen of pop
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The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71% of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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A living wage is an antidepressant.
It is a sleep aid.
A stress reliever.
It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy.
It prevents premature death.
It shields children from neglect.
The $15 minimum wage doesn't just improve lives. It saves them. nyti.ms/2TeYyNP
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“I didn’t want to be something cool. I didn’t want to be calm. I wanted to be a player that made you say, ‘Did you see that?’ ”
We interviewed Kevin Garnett.
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"Serena’s excellence comes with the ability to imagine herself achieving a new kind of history for all of us." nyti.ms/2MbN9a3
— "The Meaning of Serena Williams," Claudia Rankine (from 2015)
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Kendrick Lamar, the greatest rapper of his generation.
Dave Free, creator of some of the most celebrated music videos of the last decade.
Their dynamic reaches back decades.
Now, they are pushing their creative partnership onto unexpected terrain. nyti.ms/3I3pPvE
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The incarcerated women who fight California’s wildfires: for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. nyti.ms/2QzbwRY
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We interviewed Phoebe Bridgers about her career-defining year, her Grammy nominations and the inspiration she finds in sadness. nyti.ms/3t71cDH
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"I don’t Uncle Tom to anybody. I don’t care who it is. When I smile, I smile. I do not grin. There’s a difference, OK? And I would say that to Jesus, do you understand?"
An interview with Cicely Tyson.
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“We willingly turned the other way on white supremacy because there were real political costs to talking about white supremacy,” says the national-security strategist P. W. Singer. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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Our #1619project examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States.
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In her essay for the #1619Project, @nhannahjones wrote about how it is black Americans who have been the perfecters of American democracy
Read her Pulitzer-winning essay here: nyti.ms/2z5O4bg
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Welcome to New York, where the sewer rats are probably laughing at you.
No really, they are, and the sound artist @h0use has been recording them for years.
Listen to what rat laughter sounds like: nyti.ms/2MWSa6B)
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"America will not survive the big lie just because a liar is separated from power."
The historian @TimothyDSnyder writes on Trump, the mob and what comes next.
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At 84, Toni Morrison sits comfortably as one of the greatest authors in American history. nyti.ms/1N8v4IQ
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Over the course of two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald Trump more than $2 billion.
If they ever become public, Deutsche Bank’s Trump records could serve as a Rosetta Stone to decode the president’s finances, @davidenrich reports.
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As the planet heats and crops fail, millions of people will be forced to choose between flight or death.
New research suggests that climate change will cause humans to move at an unprecedented scale.
And for many, this great migration has already begun. nyti.ms/3jrgZZY
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Holy motherforking shirtballs it's @shamblanderson on what makes the @nbcthegoodplace so good.
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These statistics raise questions about the United States’ counterterrorism strategy, which for nearly two decades has been focused on American and foreign-born jihadists, overshadowing right-wing extremism as a legitimate national-security threat. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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This week's cover: Can Dirt Save the Earth? Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land. nyti.ms/2JVTN4n
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A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions.
Palm oil was supposed to help save the planet. Instead it unleashed a catastrophe. nyti.ms/2R05ZnO
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Our next cover story is up early: Inside Trump's efforts to get his agenda through Congress. By @draperrobert nyti.ms/2nTbSrD
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This is the two-foot-tall Batman figurine with the head of Mark Twain that lives in Val Kilmer’s office nyti.ms/35D0pA3
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These statistics belie the strident rhetoric around “foreign-born” terrorists that the Trump administration has used to drive its anti-immigration agenda. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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Dan Stout, a police officer in Gainesville, Florida, learned to his horror that Richard Spencer was planning a speech at the University of Florida. Stout had no clue who most of these people were, and neither, it seemed, did anyone else in law enforcement. nyti.ms/2QfD0fp
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“My Parkinson’s is the same to my children as my being an activist is. It’s who I am.”
Michael J. Fox opens up to @david_marchese about acting with Parkinson’s, taking the wrong roles and staying positive: nyti.ms/2Enp7qN
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Nicolas Cage is a performer who sees possibilities in art — and maybe life — that no one else does. nyti.ms/2KvdoJW
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“No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.” Now elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, is ready for battle:
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'Queen & Slim' "is a black movie because it is first and foremost about loving black people, loving us in every way and however we are — when we are angry, when we are frightened, when we are kind and when we are hurting," @carvellwallace writes nyti.ms/2qAXgAp
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We asked writers, artists, photographers to tell us what they learned in quarantine. From learning to play the piano to inventing a new game for their daughters — these are the things our contributors have been doing nyti.ms/2TrVSLO
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“This was Trump pulling a Putin.” @DraperRobert talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers about the ex-president's pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian invasion, Jan. 6 — and what connects them. nyti.ms/3LRkxlK
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'Just Get Us in the Room': The Women of Hollywood Speak Out, by Maureen Dowd. nyti.ms/1T2j8aL
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.@azizansari writes a tribute to his friend Harris Wittels, the comedian's comedian nyti.ms/1J52O8I
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Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause the deaths of roughly 250,000 men, women and children each year. nyti.ms/2Po7trb
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There were no current intelligence reports he could find on the alt-right.
The state police couldn’t offer much insight.
Whatever the F.B.I. knew (which wasn’t a lot), they weren’t sharing.
The Department of Homeland Security had only scant material.
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Here's a sneak peek of the four covers of our Great Performers issue, featuring Denzel Washington, Ruth Negga, Emma Stone and Ashton Sanders
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20-year-old Naomi Osaka’s rise is accompanied by a curious tension: She is half-Japanese, half-Haitian, representing a country whose obsession with racial purity has shaped her own family’s history. nyti.ms/2Pu9YJ3
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“I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person.” — @staceyabrams
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“It is time for this country to pay its debt. It is time for reparations.”
Our cover story this week by @nhannahjones, out in print today.
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24 couples, 24 hours, 24 covers. On a single day in May, @NYTmag captured couples kissing in a truck, photographing them as the city rolled by. See all 24 covers here: nyti.ms/2Los0tq #NYTLoveCity
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We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?)
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On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. Prepare yourself with this special section from @nytmag, only in print.
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How ‘Desus & Mero’ Conquered Late Night: The comedic duo has made it big by offering what few other shows can: a decidedly black perspective. By @jazzedloon nyti.ms/2t8iSSR
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If The Rock can pull off a fanny pack, you probably can too. nyti.ms/1NSKCjn nitter.app/NYTmag/status/64063234…
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This week's cover story: Children of the Opioid Epidemic by Jennifer Egan nytimes.com/2018/05/09/magaz…
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“Poverty and inequality and inequity in our country are harming our future. And we need a leader who is willing to lay out thoughtful progressive policies that will lift up the entire country and restore our international position” — @staceyabrams
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What Colin Kaepernick and Leslie Jones reveal about who gets to be called a "patriot" in America, by @Wesley_Morris nyti.ms/2cUzkMD
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"America will not survive the big lie just because a liar is separated from power."
The historian @TimothyDSnyder writes on Trump, the mob and what comes next.
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Our cover: Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world? nyti.ms/2qWsE7q
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“On Black men, a mustache told a different story. It was fashionable, but it was more than that. On a Black man, it signified values: perseverance, seriousness, rigor. ”
Wesley Morris on the mustache that led to a deep consideration of his Blackness.
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