The nation’s top gun violence researchers believe that mass shootings, including those in Buffalo and Uvalde, should be categorized with suicides and fatal overdoses. Here’s why.
Patricia Marx reviews the new vaccinated seating sections at New York’s baseball stadiums. And the activist talks about the AIDS action group, and its transformative impact on America.
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The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was perhaps the single worst act of racial violence in the terrible history of Jim Crow. But, for generations, few peopleâeven in Tulsaâknew about it. Now the rap community of Tulsa is coming together to change that, with the new record âFire in Little Africa.â Plus, four staff writers on President Bidenâs Rooseveltian agenda. Biden wants to end the near-consensus in Washington that big government is bad. But are his ambitions grand enough to withstand the realities of American politics?
Joe Biden Wants to Be Like Roosevelt. But Can He Get the Votes?
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For generations, U.F.O.s have been in the purview of late-night call-in radio shows and supermarket tabloids, not the Department of Defense. Now the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings can no longer be dismissed, and a major report is due in June. Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what’s changed, and why. Plus, in a small town in the nineteenth century, three neighbors fought for both abolition and women’s rights, at a time when women weren’t supposed to fight for anything.
Are U.F.O.s a National-Security Threat?
After more than seventy years, the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings cannot simply be dismissed. Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what’s changed, and why.
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In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s government’s severe repression of Muslim minorities, principally Uyghurs and Kazhaks. Accounts from a camp survivor and a woman who fled detainment show how, even outside the camps, life in the province of Xinjiang became a prison. The crisis meets the United Nations’ definition of genocide, and the U.S. State Department has also made that determination. With the 2022 Winter Olympics coming up in Beijing, what can the world do about Xinjiang?
Why Has China Targeted Minorities in Xinjiang?