Growth Has Lifted Counties That Voted for Trump. Mostly, It’s the Wealthy Ones.
President Trump’s economy has left the most distressed swaths of the country waiting for their share of the good times.
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CreditIlana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times A Year After Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s Poorest Neighborhoods Are Slowest to Recover
Texas has made progress recuperating from Hurricane Harvey, but low-income and minority residents have had a much harder time.
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CreditSocial Media, via Reuters Mollie Tibbetts’s Father Asks That Her Death Not Be Exploited to Promote Racism
The call by Rob Tibbetts to not politicize his daughter’s murder came a day after the president’s eldest son blamed Democrats for her death.
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CreditCig Harvey for The New York Times Being Women: Poetry and Imagery
This summer, we selected six poems by women and asked photographers to let the poems inspire them.
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CreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times Who’d Be on Your Spaceship? A School Exercise Backfires in Ohio
Children were asked to decide life or death for a group that included a gay athlete, an Asian orphan and a racist police officer.
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CreditLibrary of Congress What Is Labor Day? A History of the Workers’ Holiday
President Grover Cleveland made it a national holiday in 1894, during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers.
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CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times Meghan McCain Rebukes Trump in Powerful Eulogy for Her Father
John McCain’s daughter reproached President Trump at the senator’s funeral as the president left the White House wearing golf gear and a “Make America Great Again” hat.
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CreditSaul Martinez for The New York Times Government Can Stop Paying to House Puerto Rico Hurricane Victims, Judge Rules
After months of temporary reprieves, the judge says temporary housing vouchers for victims of Hurricane Maria staying in hotels can be ended on Sept. 13.
