72 Philadelphia Officers Benched After Offensive Social Media Posts
Officers accused of making racist, dehumanizing or otherwise biased posts were placed on administrative duty in Philadelphia and barred from presenting cases to prosecutors in St. Louis.
Supreme Court Allows 40-Foot Peace Cross Honoring War Dead on State Property
Challengers argued that the cross in suburban Maryland sent a message of government favoritism toward Christianity.
Should California Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning?
Thursday: Cities around the country are grappling with that question. Here, it’s urgent. Also: PG&E’s wildfire liability and Latinx artists.
One of the First Outside Spending Pushes for 2020 Goes for Bill de Blasio
A New York hotel union is directing donations to the mayor, with an eye on influencing the 2021 mayor’s race in addition to the 2020 presidential contest.
Booker Proposes Clemency for Thousands of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
Mr. Booker’s proposal, announced a week before the first 2020 primary debate, would be the broadest clemency initiative since the Civil War.
Mural, Mural on the Wall
More than 50 murals in all five boroughs of New York City will mark the half-century since the Stonewall uprising.
What Was Your Stonewall? Pivotal L.G.B.T.Q. Moments Across the U.S.
The uprising at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 inspired a movement, but there were other early milestones in the struggle for gay rights.
To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law
For decades, antitrust regulation has focused on the welfare of the consumer. Now a backlash over Big Tech’s power has regulators and scholars trying to reverse years of established doctrine.
‘These People Aren’t Coming From Norway’: Refugees in a Minnesota City Face a Backlash
As more Somali refugees arrive in St. Cloud, white anti-immigration activists have pressed an increasingly explicit anti-Muslim agenda.
New Judge in the 9/11 Trial at Guantánamo Inherits a Complex History
Col. W. Shane Cohen could be the first judge to set a trial date for the five defendants charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
On Politics: Revisiting the Case for Reparations
The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates testified during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about government reparations for African-Americans.
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