Race-based federal lending rules from New Deal programs in the 1930s kept Black families locked out of suburban neighborhoods, a policy that continues to slow their economic mobility.
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Russia Cracks Down on News Reports, Sharply Reversing ‘Openness’
News organizations including The New York Times said they were halting operations in Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed a new censorship law last Friday. Fearing prosecution, independent Russian news outlets also announced they were shutting down.Putin has long enforced authoritarian rule and tight grip on the news media, but the new law marked a […]
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NATO’s Foundation Was a Cooperative Airlift (With Chocolate)
Vladimir Putin has used NATO expansion as a pretext for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The Russian president claimed that the alliance’s actions were a direct threat to his nation’s security. NATO, long a source of tensions between the U.S. and Russia, was formed shortly after the end of World War II. In June 1948, […]
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In the Fight Against Russia, Ukrainian Citizens Turn to an Old Recipe
Ukrainian citizens are mobilizing to build Molotov cocktails – crude bombs made with a bottle and flammable liquid – to defend their country against the Russian invasion. “Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense tweeted, urging citizens to fight what has become the largest military assault in Europe since World War […]
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U.S.-Russia Relations: Three Tumultuous Decades
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, after months of threats and failed attempts by the Kremlin and the West at a diplomatic resolution. At a White House news conference in January, President Joe Biden warned that Russia would “pay a serious and dear price” if its troops move across the border. […]
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Crossing Borders: How Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Echoes a Strategy of Aggression
“Peace on our continent has been shattered.” With those words, the secretary general of NATO condemned Russia’s massive ground, air and ballistic missile assault on Ukraine. The attack is the first major military conflict in Europe since World War II, and there are other, darker parallels to that era that the invasion has brought to […]
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In Black History Month, the Focus Is on Overcoming Unequal Health Risks
The theme for Black History Month this year is health and wellness, a longstanding and pressing issue for African Americans, who have suffered race-based health disparities that the Covid-19 pandemic has underscored. The theme is chosen each year by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or ASALH, an organization founded […]
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Oil Drilling Was Blocked Under NEPA, Environmental Legislation From the 1970s
A federal judge canceled the sale of gas and oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico last month, ruling that the Interior Department had violated the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, by failing to take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year. Under the court order, the […]
