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Powell’s Legacy Risks Being Tarnished More by SVB Collapse
March 15, 2023
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank threatens to further besmirch the reputation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, on top of the blemish he’s suffered…
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Ukraine war crimes cases to open as International Criminal Court seeks 1st arrest warrants since Russia’s invasion
March 15, 2023
On March 2, 2022, just one week into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Kahn opened…
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An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Friday, District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is among the most reactionary of former President Donald Trump’s appointees, signaled…
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Is the American Catholic Church Fueling the Far Right?
March 14, 2023
A book review by Noah Feldman: Just how conservative is the Catholic Church? So conservative that, when Pope Francis recently said that homosexuality is a…
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On Monday, a day after federal regulators stepped in to stem a potential crisis triggered by two sudden bank failures, Senator Elizabeth Warren was seething.
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A rash of proposed Florida laws use ‘genocidal rhetoric’ to attack trans people, legal experts say
March 14, 2023
A series of new bills in Florida taking aim at health care providers offering gender-affirming care and parents who support their trans kids are part…
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What Conversation Can Do for Us
March 14, 2023
There was once a time when strangers talked to one another, sometimes eagerly. “In past eras, daily life made it necessary for individuals to engage…
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The Expanding Battle Over the Abortion Pill
March 13, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries. So, when…
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Biden Promised to Revisit Presidential Immunity. He Hasn’t.
March 13, 2023
When Joseph R. Biden Jr. was running for the White House in 2019, he sharply criticized the Justice Department’s longstanding view that presidents who commit…
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Mayors get personal over coffee and eggs
March 13, 2023
For Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the galvanizing event was a family health emergency. For Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, it was picking up from failure and…
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JPMorgan Chase is attempting to engineer what could be the biggest clawback of pay in Wall Street history by demanding that Jes Staley return more…
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Where Were the Regulators as SVB Crashed?
March 13, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure boils down to a simple misstep: It grew too fast using borrowed short-term money from depositors who could ask to be…
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Why fast-food workers, ride-hail drivers, and nail technicians are fighting for this new form of labor organizing
March 13, 2023
Lenny Peña, from Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been driving for Uber since 2017. At the beginning, he says he was able to make nearly $3,000 every…
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The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere
March 13, 2023
An article co-written by Matthew C. Stephenson: This winter, the university where one of us works sent out an email urging employees to wear a…
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U.S. regulators took control of a second bank Sunday and announced emergency measures to ease fears depositors might pull their money from smaller lenders after…
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Has Asian representation in film improved with ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’?
March 13, 2023
It’s been five years since “Crazy Rich Asians” featuring an all-Asian cast broke global box office records. Its debut kicked off the so-called “Asian August”…
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In 1987, Ms. magazine asked me to write about RU-486, a new medication that caused the uterus to expel a fertilized egg before it could…
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Detained immigrants claim civil rights violations at Plymouth County Correctional Facility
March 10, 2023
A civil rights complaint filed Thursday on behalf of immigrants detained at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility says severe restrictions on phone calls, videoconference calls,…
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For decades, many Americans with hepatitis C have struggled to get tested or died waiting for a cure that remained inaccessibly expensive within the nation’s…
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President Joe Biden will present his budget Thursday at what Reuters calls a “campaign-style event” in a Philadelphia union hall. The budget will include, The…
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The Gist: The Unremarkable Antics Of Congressman DeSantis
March 10, 2023
Then-Congressman Ron DeSantis did a moderate Republican a favor in 2013, when he “lit up” the head of the Parks Department. But it was the…