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Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say
The New York Times - By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY
For major corporations, shareholders used to be everything. No more. A coalition of executives representing some of America’s largest companies issued a statement on Monday that redefines “the purpose
Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kong Protesters Love Pepe the Frog. No, They’re Not Alt-Right.
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Graffiti of Pepe the Frog outside the Central Government complex in Hong Kong on Sunday. He is holding a sign that says “hope.”
Huawei
U.S. Companies Get More Time to Stop Working With Huawei
The New York Times - By ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON — The United States will allow American companies to continue doing business with Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, for an additional 90 days, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said
California Politics
The Debate About Ethnic Studies for California Students
The New York Times - By JILL COWAN
(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) Last week, my colleague Dana Goldstein, who covers education, took a deep dive into the pitched debate around efforts to require
Xinjiang
China: Free Our Parents From Concentration Camps
The New York Times - By AKEDA PULATI, KAMALTURK YALQUN and ADILI YILIHAMU
In the video Op-Ed above, three Chinese citizens whose parents disappeared demand their release from China’s “re-education camps.” The government is estimated to have detained over one million people.
Mauricio Macri
Who Is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?
The New York Times - By MARK WEISBROT
What are we to make of Argentina’s surprise election results on Aug. 11, which jolted pollsters and analysts alike, and roiled the country’s financial markets? In the presidential primary for the country’s
Republicans
How Much Damage Have Republicans Done in the States?
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Death Penalty
What Part of ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ Don’t We Understand?
The New York Times - By MARGARET RENKL
NASHVILLE — Thursday was an ordinary day at my house. All my loved ones were safely in the places where they should be. The hallucinogenic heat of the past week had finally broken. My husband was healing
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw’s 6-Hour ‘Beast’? She’s All In
The New York Times - By ERIC GRODE
In the space of less than an hour, these were just a few of the terms of endearment lobbed from the dimly lit seats of the Festival Theater, one of the three venues that make up the Shaw Festival campus.
Health
Nurturing an Autistic Son’s Spiritual Life
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Recession
DealBook Briefing: How a Recession Could Hit This Year
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Porsche
Sale of Rare Nazi-Era Porsche Sputters After Sotheby’s Auction Blunder
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Joaquin Castro
Julián Castro’s Obama Moment
The New York Times - By AMY CHOZICK
The night before Julián Castro delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention for President Barack Obama’s re-election, he had eaten by himself at the T.G.I. Friday’s not far
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travel news
In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music
The New York Times - By COLLEEN CREAMER
While the rest of America was roaring to jazz during the ’20s, in a small corner of the South, where back roads snake through early-morning mist and porches are used for melody-making as much as sitting
East London
The Man Turning European Fashion Into Something Raw and Real
The New York Times - By NANCY HASS
“THERE MIGHT BE no other place in the world as good as where I’m going to take you,” says Jonathan Anderson, with a final drag of his cigarette. We are standing on the vast stone steps of London’s Victoria
Queer Eye
The New Spiritual Consumerism
The New York Times - By AMANDA HESS
How did you spend your summer vacation? I spent mine in a dissociative fugue of materialist excess, lying prone on my couch and watching all four seasons of “Queer Eye,” the Netflix makeover show reboot.
Lyme Disease
Developing New Guidelines on Lyme Disease
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Drinking
Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire
The New York Times - By AARON E. CARROLL
In many areas of health policy, the best of intentions can lead to more harm than good. Such is the case with America’s approach to alcohol and pregnancy. The best evidence shows that punitive policies
New York City
N.Y.C. Is on Pace to Draw a Record 67 Million Tourists This Year
The New York Times - By PATRICK McGEEHAN
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] Weather: Mostly sunny. The high should reach about 90, but it could feel like close to 100. Showers and thunderstorms are possible after 3 p.m.
World News
Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Oil Tanker: Your Monday Briefing
The New York Times - By CHRIS STANFORD
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) We’re covering China’s military buildup near Hong Kong, a deadly attack in Afghanistan, and the botched auction of a rare Porsche. A buildup of
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Manhattan, NY
Fire Hydrants Have Been New York’s Cool Solution for 100 Years
The New York Times - By JEFF GILES
More than a century after it was published, the article reads like slapstick comedy from the silent-movie era. It was May 1904. A street cleaner had inadvertently left a wrench beside a fire hydrant. a
Mining
Unpaid Miners Blocked a Coal Train in Protest. Weeks Later, They’re Still There.
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Truckers blocked a highway in Kentucky last week in solidarity with coal miners who were protesting over wages that were left unpaid when a mining company abruptly shut down. The miners have been blocking
Business
How Job Retraining Can Yield Lasting Wage Gains (It Isn’t Cheap)
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Avigail Rodriguez, a former Project Quest student, works in the emergency room at Metropolitan Methodist Hospital in San Antonio as a registered nurse. The training helped her nearly triple her wage. Zammiello,
World News
With Troop Buildup, China Sends a Stark Warning to Hong Kong
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Armored vehicles amassed on Friday at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, across the border from Hong Kong. Chinese exercises at the stadium in Shenzhen have included drills on controlling Fu
FBI
Ohio Man Charged in Video Threatening Jewish Center, Officials Say
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Conspiracies
In Economic Warning Signals, Trump Sees Signs of a Conspiracy
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Purdue Pharma
A Nun, a Doctor and a Lawyer — and Deep Regret Over the Nation’s Handling of Opioids
The New York Times - By BARRY MEIER
PENNINGTON GAP, Va. — Years before there was an opioid epidemic in America, Sister Beth Davies knew it was coming. In the late 1990s, patient after patient addicted to a new prescription painkiller called
Frankfurt
A Summer of Angst in One of the World’s Safest Countries
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