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The black unemployment rate has fallen below 6 percent for the first time, setting a new record that suggests progress is being made toward closing a longstanding employment gap between blacks and whites — but also offering a reminder that…
The latest campus free speech controversy has a twist: It involves a conservative professor conspiring with students, in emails that sound like they were written by comic book villains, to dig up dirt on a progressive undergraduate. The controversy took…
Sporting Lisbon are actively seeking a transfer for William Carvalho, with Everton thought to be keen on the midfielder, Sky Sports News understands. It is thought both the club and the player’s representatives are trying to arrange a transfer to…
“Succession” (airing Sundays, on HBO) opens with the billionaire media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) rumbling out of bed in the pre-dawn hours of his eightieth birthday. Groping in the dark and moving through a stupor, he pees on the…
When “Nailed It!,” a half-hour baking-competition show, débuted on Netflix, back in March, I binged all six episodes in one jubilant couch session. Last week, recognizing the early warning signs of a round of existential malaise, I parked myself in…
The investigative-journalism podcast “In the Dark” would be impressive in any era, but it feels especially welcome in 2018. The show, which is produced by APM Reports, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and hosted by the series’ lead reporter, Madeleine Baran,…
