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SundayReview | Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living By RUTH BADER GINSBURGOCT. 1, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her Supreme Court nomination hearings in 1993. Credit Stephen Crowley “Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court justice?”…
Don’t let the wide Harlem avenues and neon-lit side streets fool you. Marvel’s Luke Cage is a Western. Its ex-con hero washes dishes and tends bar at a nightspot after dark and mops floors at a barbershop during the day. But in his heart, he’s a gunfighter who swears he’s left that life behind. He…
Highlights from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Manheim, Pa., on Oct. 1. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) MANHEIM, Pa. — Donald Trump’s campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. It was…
August 26, 2015, was, by all accounts, a stressful day at Blue Apron’s facility in Richmond, California. As the sun rose over what would be an unusually warm Wednesday, a 21-year-old employee made a phone call to a supervisor at the $2 billion food startup’s Bay Area fulfillment center, where tens of thousands of meal kits…
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by…
Last Friday, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill called the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, better known as JASTA. The bill, which enjoyed broad bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, would, among other things, have allowed plaintiffs to sue countries known to have sponsored terrorist acts for compensatory damages. Many of the bill’s…