NEW YORK — Hundreds of parents and students were sitting on folding chairs or standing against the wall in dimly lit linoleum floored party hall underneath the elevated train on a gray day in Queens. They were there, they said, to rally on behalf of public schools and against charter schools, to learn about how to opt-out of high-stakes testing and how to make more schools less segregated and more equitable. These kinds of civic meetings occur every day in New York, but they don’t attract the kind of attention this one has: half-a-dozen television cameras, a line around the block to get in, reporters from the local press and from national magazines.Story Continued Below “I know you are not here to see me,” said Diane Ravitch, the author of more than a dozen books and one of the leading thinkers on education policy over the last 40 years. “But to see AOC.” And sitting off in the corner, wearing a black blazer pinned with the official congressional … [Read more...] about How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Broke All the Rules of New York Politics
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Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Business Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Business | Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown Supported by ByPaul Mozur Jan. 10, 2019 SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another’s family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation. Their offense: posting on Twitter. Chinese police, in a sharp escalation of the country’s online censorship efforts, are questioning and detaining a growing number of Twitter users even though the social media platform is blocked in China and the vast majority of people there cannot see it. The crackdown is the latest front in President Xi Jinping’s campaign to expand the government’s suppression of internet activity beyond China’s borders. In effect, the authorities are extending their control … [Read more...] about Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Technology Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Technology | Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis Supported by BySheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas Nov. 14, 2018 Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to disrupt the 2016 American election. Congressional and federal investigators were closing in on evidence that would implicate the company. But it wasn’t the looming disaster at Facebook that angered Ms. Sandberg. It was the social network’s security chief, Alex … [Read more...] about Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
President Trump on Christine Blasey Ford, his relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and more
When Americans vote in next month's midterm elections, it's likely President Trump and his agenda will be motivating them as much as any candidate or local issue on the ballot. Almost two years ago when we last interviewed then-President-Elect Trump, he seemed surprised he had won. Not that he'd ever admit that to us. Well, when we sat down with him this past Thursday in the White House, we found him confident and boastful, as he told us he's learned on the job. He was eager to joust over the issues of the day: the economy, China and Russia and of course "fake news." But we started with very real news. The suspected murder of a Saudi journalist and the catastrophe of Hurricane Michael. Which has devastated parts of the Florida Panhandle. Claiming at least 19 lives and leaving hundreds of thousands without power across the Southeast. Michael comes on the heels of a series of super storms: Florence in the Carolinas, Maria in Puerto Rico, Harvey in Texas. Lesley Stahl: Do you still think … [Read more...] about President Trump on Christine Blasey Ford, his relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and more
How Red and Green Slime (Really) Could Swing Florida’s Senate Race
John Moran is a Florida nature photographer, but lately he sees himself as a Florida crime photographer. The crime, he likes to say, is the slime. Moran has chronicled the blooms of toxic algae that have shrouded the peninsula in recent months — the neon guacamole glop that ravaged Lake Okeechobee and the sparkling estuaries of the east coast before oozing its way to the west coast, as well as the rust-colored red tide that massacred millions of fish along the white-sand beaches of the west coast before arriving last week on the east coast. Moran’s images are stomach-churning, yet strangely beautiful. One overhead shot of a swirly vortex of algae looks like a fluorescent green version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. His portrait of two men on a fishing boat in Sarasota Bay, overlooking a floating expanse of snapper and eel corpses, has the feel of a Renaissance masterpiece.Story Continued Below But one of Moran’s most popular images, a grinning man relaxing on a … [Read more...] about How Red and Green Slime (Really) Could Swing Florida’s Senate Race