NASCAR to Start Its Engines Along an Unlikely Course: Downtown Chicago
When Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a deal to bring NASCAR to Chicago’s downtown streets, the idea was met locally with surprise and bewilderment. Chicagoans have...
Where Reparations Stand in the U.S.
This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. After 50 years in slavery, Belinda Sutton was freed and given a pension...
The ‘Unseen’ Students in the Affirmative Action Debate
For as long as she remembers, Dolly Ramos hoped to have “the college experience,” she said, and one day become a nurse. But her biggest...
Louisiana Governor Vetoes Ban on Transition Care for Transgender Minors
Background The medical measure would forbid hormone treatments, puberty blockers and gender-transition surgery for people under 18. The other two bills would restrict what teachers...
Sheriff Recorded Making Inflammatory Comments Won’t Face Charges
Oklahoma’s attorney general said on Friday that a sheriff who was caught on a recording as other county officials discussed killing journalists and Black people...
Surviving the Texas Heat in Prisons Without Air-Conditioning
On the third day of 100-degree temperatures last week, locked without air-conditioning in a Texas prison north of Houston, Joseph Martire said he began to...
Abortion Ban Upheld in Indiana
A ruling by Indiana’s highest court on Friday cleared the way for a ban in the state on most abortions from conception. The court said...
Unhealthy U.S. Air Quality as Wildfire Smoke Covers Chicago and Midwest Cities
The Cleveland Department of Public Health’s air quality division and the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency both issued health alerts because of the air. Cleveland...
Heat Wave Spreads From Texas to Bake the Southeast U.S.
A scorching early-summer heat wave that has baked much of Texas and Oklahoma for the past week spread across the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, with...
In Battle Over Direction of Texas, an Unlikely Casualty: Water Breaks
As the heat index hit 115 degrees on Monday, Karla Perez took a five-minute water break at a construction site in Dallas. Such rest breaks...
Heat Wave Latest News: More High Temperatures Expected in Texas and Alabama
The South is in the middle of a wave of record heat expected to continue through the July 4 holiday. A stubborn heat dome of...
In Texas, Heat That Can Make You Faint
Kevin Randal, a construction worker in Houston, has his routine. Mr. Randal, 60, who works on air-conditioning, roofing, flooring and kitchens, spent Saturday inside an...
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BIDEN v. NEBRASKA
BARRETT, J., concurring
Harv. L. Rev. 2387, 2457 (2003) (Manning). To strip a...
What the Affirmative Action Ruling Means for Colleges and Universities
The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions will very likely change higher education in complicated ways. Some of them will be obvious, including immediate...