President Bill Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial…
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World leaders and human rights activists on Sunday mourned the death of Desmond Tutu, the South African priest and human rights activist who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting apartheid, racial injustice and homophobia.Tutu died…
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From my home in Beirut, I think of Hong Kong all the time. Even though I’ve never been and have no real ties to it, I feel as though I have a stake in its future. I stare at news headlines that read, “Hong Kong Families, Fearing a Reign of…
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Illustration by Paul Spella; image by Henny Ray Abrams / AFP / GettyThis article was published online on August 10, 2021.September 11 is buried so deep under layers of subsequent history and interpretation that it’s hard to sort out the…
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