More school employees are carrying guns to defend against school shootings. In Ohio, a contentious new law requires no more than 24 hours of training.

Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.

A Times critic at large traveled to Ukraine to see how artists “defend what we have taken for granted.”

What’s a Critic Doing in a War Zone?

Meta reported its first-ever revenue decline. The Fed agreed on another supersize rate increase. And oil company earnings are booming.

This Week in Business: Recession Fears

Quotation of the Day for Sunday, July 31, 2022.

Quotation of the Day: Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.

To tap into the creativity of younger workers, and to offset a labor shortage, companies are offering four-day weeks, club memberships and work-from-anywhere flexibility.

Gen Z Knows What It Wants From Employers. And Employers Want Them.

A walk-up ritual goes awry, balloons at Queens Plaza and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

‘Unfortunately, the Packet Got Caught in the Branch of a Tree’

All six of the region’s largest economies could soon be run by presidents elected on leftist platforms. Their challenge? Inflation, war in Europe and growing poverty at home.

As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon

The best looks from the “Uncoupled” premiere, All Star Code benefit and the Polo Hamptons match.

Polo Season in the Hamptons

The Environmental Protection Agency found that water at a mobile home park that mostly serves agricultural workers contained almost 10 times the allowable limit of arsenic. But housing alternatives are hard to find.

When There’s Arsenic in the Water, but ‘We Have Nowhere to Go’

On Tuesday, Kansans will decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment that could lead to far-reaching abortion restrictions or an outright ban on the procedure.

Kansas Abortion Vote Tests Political Energy in Post-Roe America

Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, July 31, 2022.

Corrections: July 31, 2022

The suspect, a 52-year-old man from Minnesota, had left the scene but was taken into custody after a witness identified him, the authorities said. A motive was not immediately clear.

A 17-Year-Old Is Killed and 4 Are Hospitalized in River Tubing Stabbing

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Spelling Bee Forum

In “Acceptance,” Emi Nietfeld pushes back against the American presumption that survival should depend on personal excellence.

The Problem With Survivor Memoirs

The dignity of disabled lives and a woman’s right to choose are two separate issues. 

Leave My Disability Out of Your Anti-Abortion Propaganda

The Biden administration is suing to block Penguin Random House from buying Simon & Schuster. A United States District Court will decide if the sale can proceed.

Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger?

In his latest book, the French author celebrated for his deeply personal accounts of tragic events embraces meditation as a means of learning to write “without fabrication.” But telling the truth is complicated.

In ‘Yoga,’ Emmanuel Carrère Tries, Fitfully, to Capture Thought’s Flow

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Homes That Sold for Around $750,000

Representative Nicole Malliotakis, the city’s lone Republican House member, has tried to maintain some distance from the Supreme Court ruling on abortion.

A New Yorker’s Opposition to Abortion Clouds Her House Re-Election Bid

After his predecessors’ imprisonment, the union’s president is being challenged for re-election in the first direct vote by its membership.

United Auto Workers Seek to Shed a Legacy of Corruption

At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.

A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy

The Baseball Reliquary in Los Angeles, a mischievous cousin of the Hall of Fame, took its share of blows but is set for a comeback. Its artifacts remain as real as your imagination.

A Baseball Museum That Is ‘Better Than True’

Speculation about a stop in Taiwan, where she would be the highest-ranking U.S. visitor in decades, has jangled nerves in both Beijing and Washington.

Pelosi Heads for Singapore, but Is Silent on Taiwan

The complex nature of death when machines keep us alive.

In the I.C.U., Dying Sometimes Feels Like a Choice

At some point, toeing the line can’t excuse sketchy, creepy, violent and possibly illegal behavior.

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Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.

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Quotation of the Day: Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.

Gen Z Knows What It Wants From Employers. And Employers Want Them.

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