A Prison Death Highlights Russia’s LGBTQ Crackdown

A Prison Death Highlights Russia’s LGBTQ Crackdown

The travel agency offered tours aimed solely at men, and that was enough to attract the attention of the police enforcing new Russian laws that restrict the rights of gay people. One night in December, officers stormed the apartment of the agency’s owner and tied him up, he later told …

Read more

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

To hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters tell it, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are sidelined from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or having their land stolen by a corrupt, Black-led government that has left the …

Read more

Merle Oberon, a Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret

Merle Oberon, a Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret

The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is …

Read more

How Trump Is Gutting Regulatory Agencies Like the SEC, CFPB and EEOC

How Trump Is Gutting Regulatory Agencies Like the SEC, CFPB and EEOC

The Trump administration is rapidly delivering wins to American companies by rolling back regulations, pausing investigations and retreating from lawsuits accusing employers of discrimination. A combination of firings, stop-work orders and litigation pauses has hobbled regulators like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor …

Read more

After Trump’s DEI Order, Companies Navigate a Legal Minefield

After Trump’s DEI Order, Companies Navigate a Legal Minefield

Companies that just one year ago celebrated Black History Month and stocked Pride products on their shelves are in a new phase — what some lawyers refer to as “rainbow-hushing,” meaning dropping or quietly rebranding their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. They are retreating, or clamming up, as they brace …

Read more

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of subjects. In recent years, diversity, equity and inclusion — collectively known as D.E.I. — have been central to its agenda. But the Academies’ priorities changed abruptly …

Read more

Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution

Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution

For decades, some members of the white Afrikaner minority have been trying to convince anyone and everyone who would listen that they are the true victims in post-apartheid South Africa. They have made claims of mass killings of their people and widespread land grabs by a Black-led government that they …

Read more

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing

A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences,” the Rev. Al Sharpton led about 100 people into a Costco in East Harlem for a so-called buy-cott. The idea was to shop and support the company for maintaining its …

Read more