Jailed Belarusian Activist Praises President in Surprise Public Appearance
Date: 14 June 2021
By Ivan Nechepurenko
Ivan Nechepurenko
Roman Protasevich, who recently compared the country’s autocratic leader to Hitler, is not the first dissident to renounce his views after spending time in a Belarus prison.
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Garland says the Justice Dept. will tighten rules on seizing legislative branch data.
Date: 14 June 2021
By Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage
The news executives are expected to raise concerns about the investigative steps affecting reporters, and to discuss the details of the new policy the attorney general is working on.
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Justice Dept. Will Toughen Rules for Seizing Lawmakers’ Data, Garland Says
Date: 14 June 2021
By Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland met with news media executives amid fallout over prosecutors’ seizures of records from phone and tech companies for leak inquiries.
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Justice Dept. Official to Step Down Amid Uproar Over Leaks Inquiry
Date: 14 June 2021
By Katie Benner
Katie Benner
John C. Demers, a Trump appointee who remained in the department, would typically have been briefed on investigations like those involving the secret collection of journalists’ phone records.
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Thinking Often of the Pentagon Papers
Date: 13 June 2021
By Terence McGinley
Terence McGinley
This weekend, a special section in The Times commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Here, contributors to the project reflect on how the secret study’s publication influenced their careers.
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The Brilliant Plodder
Date: 14 June 2021
We can’t stop reading and talking about Charles Darwin, 138 years after his death.
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The Struggle for Better
Date: 14 June 2021
A look at Samantha Power and the use of military force on humanitarian grounds.
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Why I Wrote an Article About Shopping Carts
Date: 14 June 2021
By Christine Hauser
Christine Hauser
The idea came from a sliver of news about a New Jersey bill. It grew into a feature about art, human behavior and how common objects can rule our lives.
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The Fundraising Pulpit
Date: 14 June 2021
Performative fundraising favors simplistic narratives, melodramatic rhetoric, an implacable enemy, and rote phrases to crowd out reasoned debate.
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Numbering the Dead
Date: 14 June 2021
A hundred and fifty years ago, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. Now, we speak easily in the statistics of absence, of fifty dead in a mass shooting, of fourteen hundred missing in an earthquake, as if this has always been done.
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