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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    US opioid epidemic
    US takes aim at fentanyl with sanctions on China-based network

    Treasury’s move comes as Washington tries to combat flow of deadly opioid

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla’s black workers faced widespread racism, US agency alleges

    Lawsuit says employees at Fremont assembly plant endured ‘severe or pervasive’ harassment since 2015

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    News in-depthDemocratic Party US
    New York immigration crisis exposes tensions among Democrats

    City’s mayor and federal government spar as thousands of people arrive seeking work and housing

    A Venezuelan woman carries a child after arriving from Texas at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City this month
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    McKinsey
    McKinsey pays out another $230mn to settle opioid cases

    Consultancy admits no wrongdoing as it resolves claims from municipalities and school districts

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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Oren Cass
    US Republicans could finally win the argument on immigration

    Illegal border crossings have quadrupled since Joe Biden became president

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  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    Dividing the world into heroes and villains does us little good

    We need to be able to speak in nuanced terms, including about Russell Brand or Donald Trump

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  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    US immigration
    Cross-border cargo trains disrupted as US strains to contain migrant rush

    Wave of crossings via Mexico puts pressure on authorities

  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Tactics are shifting in the war on drugs

    Experimentation continues on measures to tackle addiction and fatal overdoses

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  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
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    Illinois to become first US state to abolish cash bail

    Practice of demanding pretrial monetary bonds to be released from jail blamed for high incarceration rates

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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
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    The Two-Parent Privilege — we need to talk about kids with single parents

    Melissa S Kearney looks at how the startling shift affecting American families disadvantages children and exacerbates inequality

  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    The history wars have a big casualty — the past

    Sins of omission and distortion from politicians are complicating the real point of the discipline

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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    Schadenfreude, Burning Man and the unifying power of mockery

    The reason we feel so good about laughing at people’s expense is that we have convinced ourselves they deserve it

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  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    America’s New Right is moving beyond Reaganism

    Capitalism is coming in for Republican criticism as a political pivot point emerges

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  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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    Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro convicted on contempt charges

    Jury finds ex-official failed to co-operate with investigation into January 6 attack on US Capitol

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  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Legal services
    US law firm removes diversity criteria for fellowship after challenge

    Move by Morrison Foerster comes as it was targeted in latest anti-affirmative action campaign by activist Edward Blum

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  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    US Capitol attack
    Former Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years in January 6 case

    Enrique Tarrio receives longest prison term so far among more than 1,000 defendants charged in connection with the attack

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  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Venture capitalists take a bath at Burning Man Premium content

    Plus, the end of cheap money cooks up trouble at Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens

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  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
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    Burning Man organisers begin ‘exodus’ of people trapped in desert mud

    Annual Nevada festival has become magnet for tech and finance execs and social media influencers

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  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Thousands of Burning Man festival-goers stranded in Nevada mud

    Torrential rains turn desert event into ‘hellscape’ of impenetrable muck and overflowing sewage

    Two festival-goers walk through the mud at Burning Man after a night of dancing with friends in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    US presidential election 2024
    Nikki Haley calls on ageing US leaders to ‘step away’ from power

    Republican presidential hopeful also says Americans would not vote for Trump if he were convicted

    Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley greets supporters in Indian Land, South Carolina last week
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Law firms become latest battleground in US diversity fight

    Anti-affirmative action crusader expands his sights after winning landmark case over college admissions

    Conservative activist Edward Blum walks down the steps of the US Supreme Court
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Future of work
    ‘Friday is just a dead day’: how a summer perk became a year-round staple

    More white-collar employees are clearing the decks at the end of the week after pandemic upended in-office work

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  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    News in-depthUS economy
    Big US city downtowns ‘stuck’ behind smaller rivals in pandemic recovery

    Smartphone data and home prices help reveal a diverging urban geography since the onset of the pandemic

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  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    News in-depthUS race relations
    US students and colleges adapt to affirmative action ruling

    Applicants encouraged to focus on hardships they have overcome while colleges seek proxies for race in admissions

    People embrace at a demonstration on the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-conscious student admissions programs
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    The Nimby tax on Britain and America

    Local objections and protracted reviews mean new infrastructure projects cost far more in the UK and US than elsewhere

    Four people in high-visibility orange construction suits walk along the inside of a huge tunnel frame towards blue and red blobs from a data chart
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