Gripped by disease, unemployment, outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis
The nation’s persistent political dysfunction and racial inequality were laid bare this week.
Fired officer charged in Floyd’s death used fatal force before and had history of complaints
Derek Chauvin shot one suspect, and was involved in the fatal shooting of another, according to police records and news reports.
The Debrief
With ‘shooting’ tweet, Trump inflames rather than soothes tensions
Having contributed to another national cleavage over racial justice, the president elected to lead the nation through crises retreated from the responsibility of doing so on this one.
A woman at a May 25 protest to reopen all New Jersey businesses. (Reuters)
The pandemic isn’t over. But America sure seems over it.
With the patience of some citizens apparently flagging, we are deciding to have a summer after all, it seems. A summer of playing freely, of living dangerously.
Supreme Court, in rare late-night ruling, says California may enforce certain restrictions on religious gatherings
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sided with the court’s liberal justices in response to a petition brought by a church in California that had argued the state’s pandemic-related restrictions violated constitutional protections for places of worship.
Europeans emerging from lockdowns find conspicuous absence of Americans
As countries in Europe relax their restrictions, residents are coming out to cities that feel and sound as they haven’t in decades.
Guide to the pandemic
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