Assorted retailers The holidays are a time of transactional love where, for year-long gift shoppers, exchanging presents brings unalloyed joy and, for the rest of us last-minute men, unending anxiety. Thankfully there are occasions like the so-called “White Elephant” exchange (also “Yankee swap” and “Dirty Santa” and whatever else just means “gifting your friends weird…
Even before a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, leading to a renewed national conversation about racial inequality, white Democrats were already pretty “woke” on some issues. An overwhelming majority of white Democrats said that racial discrimination was a major barrier to Black people getting ahead in America, that the police and the broader criminal…
Two blood-splattered Freedom Riders, John Lewis and James Zwerg, stand together after segregationists attacked them in the early 1960s in Montgomery, Ala. Lewis, then a young civil rights activist, would later become a member of Congress from Georgia. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Two blood-splattered Freedom Riders, John Lewis and…
ImageClockwise from bottom left: Nathan Saoudi, Sam Toms, Adam J. Harmer, Alex White, Adam Brennan and Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family.CreditCreditSuzanne Plunkett for The New York TimesLONDON — On a recent afternoon, four members of the band Fat White Family were sitting in an East London cafe, dressed, as always, like they’ve been riffling…
