In the late 19th century, a satiric weekly stoked fears about how Jewish immigrants would change New York City’s character.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that you have a constitutional right to have a gun in your home. Now, the justices will consider how far outside of the home that right extends.
At issue is the right to carry handguns in public, not just keep them at home.
While surveys have shown a large share of unvaccinated workers threatening to quit over a mandate, the reality is few actually do.
Images of water gushing into subway stations filled social media following heavy rain in New York City. Solutions are at hand – but it takes money and political will, an expert explains.
The need for social distancing sparked a cycling boom, cutting air pollution and boosting city dwellers’ mental and physical health. But when the pandemic ends, will it be back to life as usual?
The story of the Scottish diaspora has been well told in print. Now a new audio book brings emigrant stories to life in their own words.
Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but a New York appeals court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.
Only one American president – Grover Cleveland – has lost reelection and then won back his office.
The coronavirus epidemic has made us all rethink our workspaces. But the needs of the times have always influenced the office space – whether for the colonial empire or a growing commerce.
States have been experimenting with more targeted approaches to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Two strategies stand out.
Authorities have closed schools in some ultra-Orthodox areas of New York. The reasons for apparent noncompliance with public health guidelines are complicated, explains a cultural anthropologist.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
The recent spike in new coronavirus cases in the US is not due to a second wave, but simply the virus moving into new populations or surging in places that opened up too soon.
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.
Incarcerated Americans have been tasked with washing hospital laundry, manufacturing protective equipment, disinfecting cleaning supplies and digging mass graves.
It brought panic, fear and huge pressure on healthcare. Will we get it wrong again?
Who can and can’t move and why is crucial to understanding the virus.
The use and support for telehealth has never been higher in the US. Hospitals and patients are flocking to adopt the technology but regulatory roadblocks remain.
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