The mountainous Guizhou province, in southwestern China, is home to more than 34 million people. The steep terrain is challenging to work, and has led to the development of thousands of terraced hillsides over centuries of farming and building. From remote hilltop Buddhist monasteries to ancient villages to the skyline of the capital city, Guiyang, gathered here are a few glimpses of Guizhou and its residents.
Restaurants know the only way they’ll survive the winter is to somehow function alfresco.
Parenting advice on negative emotions, teenage skin care, and herd immunity.
The Trump campaign claims some of them are “clear opponents of President Trump.
“We certainly are not wanting to wait back and just let people get infected,” he said.
In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorf’s dressing room in the mid-1990s. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation. Carroll was not, of course, the first woman to say that Trump had sexually harassed or assaulted her, but unlike so many other powerful men, the president has remained unscathed by the #MeToo reckoning.
You don’t have to head inside when the temperature drops.
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The mainstream media’s role in perpetuating racism has come under increased scrutiny during the nationwide uprisings against injustice, leading to resignations and firings at news outlets across the country and calls for more diverse newsrooms.
New York unions representing teachers and principals have reached a deal with the city over how to reopen the largest public school system in the United States, averting a planned strike by educators. “We feel betrayed, and we feel as if it’s an inadequate plan,” says Aixa Rodriguez, a Bronx-based high school teacher.
As the coronavirus pandemic contributes to a glut of fossil fuels, groups like Greenpeace are calling on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to ban fossil fuel interests from his campaign and administration, if he wins, even as he recently declared at a campaign stop that he “will not ban fracking.” We discuss the politics of fossil fuels with reporter Antonia Juhasz, who says the end of oil could be near, and look at how the industry has profited from the COVID bailout.
I try to be nice, but mean words just slip out of my mouth sometimes. Now I have no friends.
Parents are scrambling to sort out child care. What if they had a massive lobby in D.C.
It’s a surprisingly principled stand by a multibillionaire.
It’s scary to start out on your own. But it’s dangerous to stay in a job you hate.
The proposed communications contract comes as the agency faces growing questions about its independence from the Trump White House.
Virus cases are dropping everywhere, but the rush to reopen could backfire.
Berlin is emerging as the likely new global health power but it doesn’t want to go it alone.
Two attendees and two members of support staff tested positive for the virus.
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
In Part 2 of our interview with Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, we air excerpts from the families of Jacob Blake and George Floyd at the massive protest marking the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, and discuss President Trump’s planned visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, as he blames Democrats for violence during protests there and in Portland, Oregon.
“This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it yet” is a line in Nina Simone’s epic protest song “Mississippi Goddam,” written in 1963 after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama that left four little Black girls dead. I’m sitting here watching an all too familiar and deadly show more than 50 years later.
The incumbent defeated Rep. Joe Kennedy III, the first loss in the state for one of the Democratic Party’s most storied dynasties.
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey prevailed in an expensive Democratic primary battle on Tuesday by winning renomination against Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who is a member of what is arguably America’s most prominent political family. While many votes remain to be counted, Kennedy’s campaign has confirmed that he has conceded to the incumbent. Markey will have no trouble in the general election in this very blue state.
Kennedy, who is the grandson of Robert F.
