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President Trump addressed the nation on Jan. 8 to discuss the government shutdown and a proposed border wall.

One shutdown, one speech, two views

By Conan Higgins and Kimsoo Gopnik January 15, 2019

Editor's note: The partial federal government shutdown is now in its 24th day, the longest such stoppage in American history. President Donald J. Trump spoke to the nation from the Oval Office on Jan....

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland is a horrifying reminder of the Holocaust.

Poland cannot erase the past with silence

By Annie Higgins, Staff writer March 6, 2018

There is no denying that the Holocaust is history’s most notorious genocide, with six million Jews alone murdered by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Most of the world acknowledges those atrocities -- and...

Hurricane Harvey caused damage estimated at almost $200 billion.

Climate change: The time to act was yesterday

By Cooper Sandford, Staff writer January 22, 2018

The world is heating up, Earth’s climate has become chaotic, and experts are worried. Hurricanes are wreaking havoc in the Caribbean and along the gulf coast in the United States, wildfires are growing...

California wildfires in 2017 left thousands homeless and destroyed property valued in the billions of dollars.

California wildfires may be ‘the new normal’

By Griffin Palefsky, Staff writer January 11, 2018

California residents are still dealing with the fallout of devastating wildfires that ravaged the state last autumn -- and will be for the foreseeable future, with Gov. Jerry Brown saying in December it...

New French president Emmanuel Macron faces tough tests at home and abroad.

Macron takes charge of France’s future

By Kate Longinova, Staff writer June 5, 2017

With France’s tense presidential election over, the country’s youngest leader since Napoleon Bonaparte, Emmanuel Macron, has stepped up to face a divided and angry population at home and an increasingly...

The Oct. 21, 1973 edition of The New York Times announcing Coxs firing.

Trump and the echoes of Watergate

By Andrew Fehribach, Opinion editor May 24, 2017

On May 9, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the man leading the investigation into possible connections between Mr. Trump’s campaign staff and Russia during the 2016 election. The...

American citizens remain divided on the merits of capital punishment.

Debate over the death penalty

Is the punishment ethical or a relic of the past?
By Jyotika Vallurupalli and Andrew Fehribach May 8, 2017

The death penalty is an increasingly archaic concept, so much so that the United States is the only Western democracy that continues to use it as form of punishment. It is a controversial topic that...

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