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THIS IS WHAT LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, delivering remarks after meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month
Credit...Allison Bailey for The New York Times
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, delivering remarks after meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month
Credit...Allison Bailey for The New York Times
April 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
THIS IS WHAT LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, delivering remarks after meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month
Credit...Allison Bailey for The New York Times
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, delivering remarks after meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month
Credit...Allison Bailey for The New York Times
March 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
August 8, 1925
A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. and paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury
(Photo: Bettmann / Getty via The Atlantic)
A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. and paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury
(Photo: Bettmann / Getty via The Atlantic)
March 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
August 8, 1925
A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. and paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury
(Photo: Bettmann / Getty via The Atlantic)
A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. and paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury
(Photo: Bettmann / Getty via The Atlantic)
A senior Canadian government source has confirmed that PM Trudeau is taking a hard line and told Trump today Canada won't drop retaliation in exchange for a partial rollback of tariffs.
It's all or nothing.
We either go back to our negotiated free trade agreement or we don't.
It's all or nothing.
We either go back to our negotiated free trade agreement or we don't.
March 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A senior Canadian government source has confirmed that PM Trudeau is taking a hard line and told Trump today Canada won't drop retaliation in exchange for a partial rollback of tariffs.
It's all or nothing.
We either go back to our negotiated free trade agreement or we don't.
It's all or nothing.
We either go back to our negotiated free trade agreement or we don't.
KENNEDY CENTER
“Hamilton” canceled plans to perform at the Kennedy Center next year as part of the institution’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Photo Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“Hamilton” canceled plans to perform at the Kennedy Center next year as part of the institution’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Photo Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
KENNEDY CENTER
“Hamilton” canceled plans to perform at the Kennedy Center next year as part of the institution’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Photo Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“Hamilton” canceled plans to perform at the Kennedy Center next year as part of the institution’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Photo Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
PHILADELPHIA
Trump's purge of federal employees has led to nearly two dozen firings at Pennsylvania national parks and forests, including in Philadelphia.
Tourism to Pennsylvania's 19 national parks & historic sites added $426 million to the state's economy in 2023
Trump's purge of federal employees has led to nearly two dozen firings at Pennsylvania national parks and forests, including in Philadelphia.
Tourism to Pennsylvania's 19 national parks & historic sites added $426 million to the state's economy in 2023
March 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
PHILADELPHIA
Trump's purge of federal employees has led to nearly two dozen firings at Pennsylvania national parks and forests, including in Philadelphia.
Tourism to Pennsylvania's 19 national parks & historic sites added $426 million to the state's economy in 2023
Trump's purge of federal employees has led to nearly two dozen firings at Pennsylvania national parks and forests, including in Philadelphia.
Tourism to Pennsylvania's 19 national parks & historic sites added $426 million to the state's economy in 2023
Artist: Bruce Conner (1933-2008) - Bombhead, 1989-2002
Pigment on RC photo paper, acrylic. Private Collection
© Estate of Bruce Conner-SODRAC (2018).
Pigment on RC photo paper, acrylic. Private Collection
© Estate of Bruce Conner-SODRAC (2018).
March 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Artist: Bruce Conner (1933-2008) - Bombhead, 1989-2002
Pigment on RC photo paper, acrylic. Private Collection
© Estate of Bruce Conner-SODRAC (2018).
Pigment on RC photo paper, acrylic. Private Collection
© Estate of Bruce Conner-SODRAC (2018).
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
March 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
Artist Annette Lemieux - "Left Right Left Right" 1995
Image shows artwork reinstalled upside down in 2018 at the Whitney in protest of the first Trump Presidency
Image shows artwork reinstalled upside down in 2018 at the Whitney in protest of the first Trump Presidency
March 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Artist Annette Lemieux - "Left Right Left Right" 1995
Image shows artwork reinstalled upside down in 2018 at the Whitney in protest of the first Trump Presidency
Image shows artwork reinstalled upside down in 2018 at the Whitney in protest of the first Trump Presidency
A sad evening for many Americans
February 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A sad evening for many Americans
On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh
February 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh
Protesters wearing masks of Elon Musk, AfD leader Alice Weidel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and JD Vance in Berlin on Thursday.
Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
February 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Protesters wearing masks of Elon Musk, AfD leader Alice Weidel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and JD Vance in Berlin on Thursday.
Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
Artist Henry Grant - Anti-nuclear protesters marching to Aldermaston, Berkshire, May 1958
© Henry Grant Collection London Museum.
© Henry Grant Collection London Museum.
February 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Artist Henry Grant - Anti-nuclear protesters marching to Aldermaston, Berkshire, May 1958
© Henry Grant Collection London Museum.
© Henry Grant Collection London Museum.
On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.
February 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.
Executive Order 9066 was an executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans
February 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Executive Order 9066 was an executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans
Light at the End of the Tunnel...
February 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Light at the End of the Tunnel...
Today creating a version of human activity that is conducted sustainably, without war, has become a survival necessity. It has also become a task well within our collective technological and intellectual capacity.
The only obstacle, the intellectual capacity of our current leaders
The only obstacle, the intellectual capacity of our current leaders
February 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Today creating a version of human activity that is conducted sustainably, without war, has become a survival necessity. It has also become a task well within our collective technological and intellectual capacity.
The only obstacle, the intellectual capacity of our current leaders
The only obstacle, the intellectual capacity of our current leaders
“No king, no crown, we will not back down”
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“No king, no crown, we will not back down”
"I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”
~ Václav Havel
~ Václav Havel
February 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”
~ Václav Havel
~ Václav Havel
Here we are again...
February 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Here we are again...
Protesters supporting the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
Photo: Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
February 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Protesters supporting the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
Photo: Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
"This time, we are not facing cold-blooded conservatives defending an existing order, for whom the killing of four students at Kent State provoked a political crisis. This time, we are facing people who want the institutions of the US to explode."
Paul Mason / Guardian 2017
Paul Mason / Guardian 2017
February 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"This time, we are not facing cold-blooded conservatives defending an existing order, for whom the killing of four students at Kent State provoked a political crisis. This time, we are facing people who want the institutions of the US to explode."
Paul Mason / Guardian 2017
Paul Mason / Guardian 2017