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The Feminist Power of Embroidery

A Hmong story cloth at the Kansas Historical Society.

Trump Arms an Adversary

Turkey took delivery of its first F-35 fighter jet in Fort Worth on Thursday.

Department of Injustice

Jeff Sessions at the Justice Department in December. On Thursday he rescinded an Obama-era policy that had discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges of marijuana-related crimes in states that have legalized sales of the drug.

You Don’t Need a Daughter to Want a Better World

Many at the Women’s March last year rallied with this message: I’m doing this for my daughter.

Trump: Our Cartoon Nobel Laureate

President Trump and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea in New York City in September.

France Fails to Face Up to Racism

The French journalist Rokhaya Diallo has been ousted from a government advisory council, a move that has been condemned by the French Human Rights League.

Mike Pence, Holy Terror

Trump’s ‘Purple’ Family Values

Trump supporters at a campaign event at the Delaware County Fair in Delaware, Ohio.

Anthony Bourdain Was the Kind of ‘Bad Boy’ We Need More Of

Anthony Bourdain on New York’s Pier 57, where he was planning on building The Bourdain Market, a 100,000-square-foot food hall, in 2015.

The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia

Until its recent retirement, the J.M. Stuart Station provided electricity largely by burning coal from the banks of the Ohio River in Aberdeen, Ohio.

Israel’s Violent Response to Nonviolent Protests

Mourners of the Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja carried his body during his funeral in Gaza City.

Stop Giving Trump the Benefit of the Doubt

President Trump at the White House last week.

This Is No Time for Liberal Despair

Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court the day after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement.

Worried About Turkey’s Economic Problems? China’s Could Be Worse

A currency exchange shop in Istanbul on Monday. The Turkish lira has plunged in value in the last week.

Can the German Left Save Itself?

Kevin Kühnert, head of the Jusos youth organization, which has tried to drag Germany’s Social Democrats to the left. “We need a people’s party in the opposition to stand up to the AfD,” he said.

How Trump Gets Into Your Bed

President Trump at the Susan B. Anthony List gala on Tuesday.