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Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl

The steel sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas features a football and will be displayed outside State Farm Stadium on Feb.…

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Regulators Find Apple’s Secrecy Violates Workers’ Rights

After a yearlong investigation, a federal labor board determined that the tech giant’s rules interfere with employees’ right to organize.

World

A Risky Trade in Ukraine Grows Riskier Amid the War

KAMIANSKE, Ukraine — When the air raid sirens stopped, Olena left shelter and returned to the roadside, waiting for clients…

Arts

New York City and Its Discontents, in 3 New Books

Some of the most memorable fiction about sports centers on elite athletes with a penchant for the philosophical. They’re the…

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Layoffs by Email Show What Employers Really Think of Their Workers

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, recently announced that it would lay off around 12,000 people, 6 percent of its work force.…

World

Are French People Just Lazy?

France has been gripped recently by a wave of strikes and demonstrations — protesters old and young, rural and urban,…

World

Is ‘Workism’ Dooming Civilization? Notes on the New Pew Parents Study.

This week the Pew Research Center released a study looking at the attitudes of contemporary American parents toward their own…

Travel

Farmworker Describes Coming Face to Face With Half Moon Bay Gunman

A man walked in and fatally shot Marciano Martinez, but spared his co-worker. Two other farmworkers, a husband and wife,…

World

When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer

Melanie Chisholm has collaborated with the choreographer Jules Cunningham on “How Did We Get Here?,” a dance piece exploring what…

World

Myrtle Witbooi, Who Fought for Domestic Workers’ Rights, Dies at 75

A former domestic servant, she experienced the inequities of the job firsthand and helped build national and international unions to…

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