Videos showed officers using batons, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets on protesters and bystanders.

Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force

A decades-long Manhattan pickup basketball game is on hold because of the pandemic, creating an emotional void for its rotating cast of actors, executives and regular joes.

A Basketball Brotherhood Calls Timeout

Reid and Blake Ferguson are long snappers, housemates and training partners during an off-season that, so far, has no end date.

For Sidelined N.F.L. Brothers, Training Is a Snap

Officials fear disastrous gridlock if people turn to cars because they remain concerned about getting the coronavirus on the subway and other public transit.

Can 8 Million Daily Riders Be Lured Back to N.Y. Mass Transit?

The Midwestern city that has been the site of unrest views itself as embracing multiculturalism. But it also struggles with segregation and racial gaps on education.

How Minneapolis, One of America’s Most Liberal Cities, Struggles With Racism

A single day reveals divergent realities across the country: As cases drop in the Northeast and some cities reopen, other places report stubbornly high numbers.

Is America’s Pandemic Waning or Raging? Yes

While Twitter started labeling some of the president’s inflammatory messages, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.

Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts

In a Rose Garden speech shaded with anger, President Trump threatened to send the American military to states where governors could not bring under control the protests over police brutality.

As Trump Calls Protesters ‘Terrorists,’ Tear Gas Clears a Path for His Walk to a Church

Missing parties and parades during Pride Month? These movies will fill your screen with joy, history and rainbows.

Celebrating Pride on Film

The musical’s world tour, now in Seoul, weathered a cast outbreak to become perhaps the only major show running. Can theater learn from its example?

How ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Survived the Pandemic

Even as major chains boarded up stores and halted operations, they largely sought to convey empathy for demonstrators and did not condemn the damage to their businesses.

Retailers, Battered by Pandemic, Now Confront Protests

A demonstration that began at the Barclays Center drew New Yorkers from many backgrounds. They worried that their goals were being hijacked by looting and violence.

Inside a Huge Brooklyn Protest: ‘The World Is Watching’

These essays on American authors — some well known, some unjustly forgotten, some perpetually misunderstood — aim to restore a sense of the “complex fate” of being an American. Read more about the series.

Writers Who Show Us Who We Are

In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times, considers Wallace Stegner, the Western novelist who captured, and criticized, his region’s individualistic spirit.

Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West

In the universe of false online information, Mr. Floyd remains alive and George Soros is to blame for the protests.

Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media

Black employment rates are plummeting, and the evolving wealth and income hit could fall on the shoulders of those ill-equipped to bear it.

Black Workers, Already Lagging, Face Big Economic Risks

Quotation of the Day for Monday, June 1, 2020.

Quotation of the Day: Virus and Furor Put Inequality on Display

Dozens of countries that borrowed from private investors have debt payments coming due as their economies have crashed because of the coronavirus.

Poor Countries Face a Debt Crisis ‘Unlike Anything We Have Seen’

Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for June.

The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in June

Created as a family meal dish for the El Bulli staff a decade ago, this three-ingredient dish utilizes pantry staples.

Ferran Adrià’s Potato Chip Omelet Delights Beyond Expectation

While many in the country abhor the kind of harassment Hana Kimura endured before her apparent suicide, some warn that cracking down on it could also chill rising internet activism.

After Reality Star’s Death, Japan Vows to Rip the Mask Off Online Hate

The Off-White and Louis Vuitton designer has become a target of social media anger and frustration because of statements about the protests.

The Virgil Abloh Backlash

FinaMill grinds spices from coarse to fine, with removable pods that allow for quick swaps.

Spice Grinder, Batteries Not Included

Trade is raising money for its roasters’ communities with Come Together Coffee.

A Coffee Club Fund-Raises With Special Blends

Charlito’s Cocina is selling its trufa seca, a 1.5-pound black truffle salami, to the public.

June 1, 2020

Headlines from June 1, 2020

Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force

A Basketball Brotherhood Calls Timeout

For Sidelined N.F.L. Brothers, Training Is a Snap

Can 8 Million Daily Riders Be Lured Back to N.Y. Mass Transit?

How Minneapolis, One of America’s Most Liberal Cities, Struggles With Racism

Billboard 200

High Off Life

The GOAT

My Turn

Dark Lane Demo Tapes

BLAME IT ON BABY

Historical Context for June 1, 2020