We spend our days watching ambulances, as Covid-19 rips through the country. By Vanessa Barbara Ms. Barbara is a contributing opinion writer who focuses on Brazilian politics, culture and everyday life. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — From the balcony of my apartment, I can see an ambulance parking lot. For over a year now, my 2½-year-old […]

The Biden administration is off to a good start on housing, but there is much more it could be doing. By Richard D. Kahlenberg Mr. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who focuses on segregation in schools and housing. Housing segregation by race and class is a fountainhead of inequality in America, […]

To the Editor: Re “Can the Meritocracy Find God?” (column, April 11): Ross Douthat bemoans the secularism of many educated people, rightly sensing that some crucial, deeper perspective is missing today. He equates that perspective with Christianity or at least a “biblical framework.” But all major religions are inadequate to the spiritual needs of today. […]

We need to talk about Margaret Sanger. For the 11 years that I’ve been involved with Planned Parenthood, founded by Sanger, her legacy on race has been debated. Sanger, a nurse, opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1916, and dedicated her life to promoting birth control to improve women’s lives. […]

Readers offer different views. “If it requires a mandate to bring this pandemic under control, the sooner the better,” one reader says. Another cites “personal concerns” about the vaccine. To the Editor: Re “These People Must Get Vaccinations,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Aaron Glickman and Amaya Diana (Op-Ed, April 15): Dr. Emanuel and his colleagues […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Credit Agricole Italia (CAI) has raised its bid for Italy’s Creval by 140 million euros ($167.6 million) in an effort to secure backing for its plan to expand in Italy’s consolidating banking sector.FILE PHOTO: A branch of Credit Agricole bank is seen in Warsaw, Poland, July 3, 2018. REUTERS/Marcin Goclowski/File PhotoThe Italian […]

Arizona’s attorney general, Mark Brnovich, has a problem: There’s no easy way to kill people. Arizona hasn’t carried out any executions since it bungled the killing of Joseph Wood in 2014, leaving him gasping and gulping for air during the roughly two hours it took him to die from a lethal injection. In a country […]

One of my daughters likes to be frightened; the other cannot stand to worry. The one who craves fear is 12: She swallows police procedurals whole, lobbies to watch Stephen King movies and takes refuge in Harry Potter audiobooks. Her sister, who is 7, is happiest with “Baby Boss” and a French cartoon called “Miraculous,” […]

If anyone knows how gentrification has displaced Black working-class residents in Atlanta, it’s Makeisha Robey, a preschool teacher. During her two decades living in the city, she has watched affordable apartment complexes vanish as new developments arise and wealthier, white residents move in. After being priced out of renting in a series of neighborhoods, Ms. […]

FILE PHOTO: Trading information for KKR & Co is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 23, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo(Reuters) – Mobile app and gaming company AppLovin Corp said on Thursday it priced its initial public offering at $80 per share, the […]