Attorneys seeking to overturn a Virginia law requiring couples to list their races on marriage licenses has released one county’s official list of acceptable races, which includes over 200 options — from “Assyrian” to “Zoroastrian.” The federal suit, filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, claims that the race requirement is “offensive,” “unconstitutional” and…
Where others saw a riveting upset that made sports history, “alt-right” founder Richard Spencer saw a victory for white supremacy, hailing the Patriots’ win in the Super Bowl via a series of tweets that linked the team to his own ideology. Brady and Belichick are about to win bigly for Trump, the #AltRight, and White…
When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was selected as a Nazi poster child. Her flawless Aryan face was plastered on postcards and magazines throughout the Third Reich. But there was one crucial detail the Nazi propaganda machine had overlooked: Taft was a Jew. “Had they found out their mistake at the time, I…
● Trieste By Daša Drndić, Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 368 pages. $27 In Gorizia, near Trieste, near Italy’s border with Slovenia, an 83-year-old woman named Haya Tedeschi has been waiting 62 years — since 1944 — for the return of her abducted little boy, Antonio. For years she has…
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NPR Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg in conversation with Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren. To benefit the Forward.
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