More non-white than white parents prefer remote learning for their children
Covid has revealed inequities that predated and could long outlast the pandemic

TOM EMMER, a Republican congressman from Minnesota, declared last month, “It’s the teachers’ unions that want to keep the schools closed.” For many parents, even progressive ones, that sentiment has become commonplace: everyone wants schools to reopen, but the teachers’ unions are dragging their feet. The truth is more complicated. Not all parents are equally eager to see their children back in school full-time.

Harvard has more problems than Donald Trump
He is just making them harder to fix

One of the most controversial executive orders will shortly land at SCOTUS
What to listen for in oral arguments over birthright citizenship

A social history of America in a warehouse
Replacements, in Greensboro, is an encyclopaedia of tableware
Trump knocks down a controversial pillar of civil-rights law
The rise and fall of the “disparate impact” doctrine
American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?
How a Supreme Court decision paved the way for more punitive policies
Pete Hegseth is purging both weapons and generals
The American army wants to get rid of obsolete kit. But there are risks