Shaina Taub’s new musical at the Public Theater tells the story of the women’s suffrage movement in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment.

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The success of an independent drive has organized labor asking whether it should take more of a back seat.

Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes

The Omicron subvariant BA.2 is causing an increase in infections, especially in Manhattan. But hospitalizations have yet to rise.

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When the right to control your own body and the right to dress how you like intersect.

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Services that put a name to a face, including Clearview AI, are being used to identify Russian soldiers, living or dead, and to verify that travelers in Ukraine are who they claim.

Facial Recognition Goes to War

The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in American history.

U.T. Austin Acquires Archives That Give Insight Into the 1960s

Bird-watchers love to see vagrants, or birds that have traveled far outside their range. But scientists say they have a lot to teach us in a world facing ecological change.

These Birds Aren’t Lost. They’re Adapting.

Britain’s commander of the churning waves was also a painter of technology and industry. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston shows how he reshaped an art form.

J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist

A show of masterworks at the Met snaps into sharp focus the great American artist’s contemporary relevance.

Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist

As artillery shells fall, pregnant women are delivering prematurely, being shuttled in and out of bomb shelters or having babies in basements without even a midwife to help. Tens of thousands more are displaced.

‘He Is a Child of War’: Giving Birth Amid Chaos in Ukraine

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will help make the Supreme Court look like the nation but will have little power to halt its rightward trajectory.

A Transformative Justice Whose Impact May Be Limited

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first budget also includes billions in child care funding, a green light for three casinos and a return of to-go drinks.

New York Toughens Bail Law in $220 Billion Budget Agreement

Officials cited data showing the new Alzheimer’s drug has serious safety risks and may not help patients.

Medicare Officially Limits Coverage of Aduhelm to Patients in Clinical Trials

The vote was a bipartisan rejection of Republican attempts to paint her as a liberal extremist who had coddled criminals.

Jackson Confirmed as First Black Woman to Sit on Supreme Court

Apoorva Mandavilli has covered the coronavirus since the pandemic started. But contracting the virus herself taught her something no research paper could.

I Reported on Covid for Two Years. Then I Got It.

I often have to ask my students to keep quiet — all in the name of open and free expression.

I’m a Conservative Professor Who Opposed Safe Spaces. I Was Wrong.

Straight People Need Better Rules for Sex

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

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Remote workers may consider a move to another city if they want to save on rent.

How Many Square Feet Does a $1,500 Monthly Rent Get You?

A team of Italian scientists describe what they believe is a gaping scar from one of these ancient battles on the neck frill of the Triceratops.

‘Big John,’ a High-Profile Triceratops, Locked Horns With Its Own Kind, Study Suggests

The Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures shaped into whole and fragmented trophies that reference historical works in the museum’s collection.

Hew Locke to Create Artworks for Met Museum Facade

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Quotation of the Day for Thursday, April 7, 2022.

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Is the object a galaxy of primordial stars or a black hole knocking on the door of time? The Webb space telescope may help answer that question.

Astronomers Find What Might Be the Most Distant Galaxy Yet

The government said it aimed to fulfill a quarter of the estimated electricity demand in Britain with nuclear power by 2050.

April 7, 2022

Headlines from April 7, 2022

‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote

Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes

As Yet Another Wave of Covid Looms, New Yorkers Ask: Should I Worry?

The Politics of Rihanna’s Pregnancy Style

Facial Recognition Goes to War

Billboard 200

Mainstream Sellout

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Encanto

Dangerous: The Double Album

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Historical Context for April 7, 2022