How to make Black lives matter in every neighborhood.
How often do you wander around a place and consider the way its history has shaped — and will go on to shape — the lives of those who call it home? In the Sunday Review cover essay, Richard Rothstein argues that we all need to get much better at it. He writes about San Mateo, Calif., a “segregated Silicon Valley city,” where exclusionary policies established the Hillsdale neighborhood as a white-only community. Today, housing restrictions in certain parts of the city ensure that only single-family homes can be built. To break down such restrictive barriers, he says, will take “extraordinary” persistence. But it’s vital we do so. As Gus Wezerek’s analysis showed this week, more equal access to better housing, for a start, could have profound implications for the state of Black Americans’ health. |
The Undertold, Undersold Story of Kamala Harris |
 | | Ben Wiseman |
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“Harris the prosecutor can find the holes in your argument and make you tremble. But can Harris the history-making vice-presidential candidate find the cracks in your heart and make you cry?” |
What if Everyone Had Voted by Mail in 2016? |
The Improbable Journey of the Suffragist Sash |
 | | Na Kim |
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Some suffragists would be appalled by the most common, modern-day usage for a sash. “They would, however, be pleased that all these bachelorettes and pageant queens could vote,” Hilary Levey Friedman writes. |
The British Monarchy Is a Game. Harry and Meghan Didn’t Want to Play. |
 | | Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at Westminster Abbey in London in March.Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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“It is hard for outsiders to know what British people want from the royal family. Sometimes even members of the family do not.” |
‘The Wounds Are Still Fresh’ |
New York City may have brought its coronavirus case count under control, but these front-line medical workers have been left to grapple with a unbearable question: Did they do enough? |
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