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What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget
D.C. police officer Michael Fanone defended American democracy on January 6. Now, he's defending the history of that day
‘Not a Victim.’ Asian American Elders Stand Resilient in the Wake of Hateful Violence
In families that experienced firsthand the surge in attacks on Asian American elders, the strength of their loved ones is clear
How Beijing Is Redefining What It Means to Be Chinese, from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia
Freedom of religion, long suppressed in China, is now being squeezed to the limit
Inside One Combat Vet’s Journey From Defending His Country to Storming the Capitol
The crackle of handheld radios broke the morning stillness. Sound carries in the country, and on the rural outskirts of Arab, Ala., curious neighbors stepped onto their porches, craning their necks to see what was going on. Some thought the police had found an escaped inmate who had been a leading story on the local…
The U.S. Is Leaving Afghanistan, the Taliban Is Growing in Power, and Education for Girls and Women Is Already at Risk
It was one of the key success stories of the U.S.-led intervention. Can it survive the withdrawal?
What the U.S. Can Learn About Health Care From This West Virginia County’s Successful Vaccine Rollout
Here are lessons for a better public health care system from the successful COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Kanawha County
‘Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.’ Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America’s History
During the 15-minute observation period after receiving his COVID-19 shot this March, Terry Harris pulled out his phone. There in the Vashon High School gymnasium, during a vaccination drive for St. Louis–area teachers, the executive director of student services at the suburban Rockwood school district in Missouri noticed an email addressed to himself and district…
Los Angeles Had a Chance to Build a Better City After the Rodney King Violence in 1992. Here’s Why It Failed
A peace movement took hold in Los Angeles during the most deadly and destructive rebellion in American history. The uprising was a reaction to systematic injustice rather than a direct response to police violence. The acquittal of four police officers for the March 1991 beating of twenty-five-year-old Black motorcyclist Rodney King—a two-minute assault captured on…
‘There’s No Easy Way Out of This.’ How Anti-Government Protests in Colombia Escalated into Deadly Clashes with Police
Scenes from the protests over inequality that have been raging in cities across the country since April 28
The Free Market is Dead: What Will Replace It?
Big meetings in the Oval Office in the time of Covid-19 are rare, but two weeks into his presidency, President Joe Biden decided to make an exception. It was only a few days after the nation’s coronavirus case count peaked in late January, and Biden sat on a stately beige chair, double masked and flanked…
Exclusive: Inside the Facilities Making the World’s Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine
Behind the scenes at the German facilities making COVID-19 vaccines for the world