On February 21, 2023, the City of Seattle, Washington became the first U.S. city – or any U.S. jurisdiction for that matter – to add caste to its list1 of categories protected against discrimination.
Three vulnerable workers were killed at a nonunion building project, the most at a single construction site since at least 2003. Here is how The New York Times uncovered their stories.
On the first day for some school districts to go maskless, there was disagreement at one Long Island school over whether the change came too soon or was overdue.