Led by Joel Embiid - a dominant center with a sharp wit - the 76ers are the top seed in the Eastern Conference. The approach came to be known as “the process,” and now it’s paying off. The Philadelphia 76ers angered many fans by deliberately assembling a bad team for several seasons, which allowed them to draft top college players. 7 seed (out of eight) in the Western Conference - a position from which no team has won a title. Is LeBron back? The Los Angeles Lakers are the defending champions, but their stars - LeBron James and Anthony Davis - were hurt for much of this season. And the Knicks aren’t even New York’s best team: The star-filled Brooklyn Nets are. Now the Knicks and the Hawks - both with exciting young players - are tied at one game apiece in a first-round series. New York and Atlanta are basketball-mad cities whose teams have struggled for most of the 21st century. The government should help protect companies that control critical infrastructure, Sean Joyce, a former F.B.I. prevent the next ransomware attack?Ĭentralize defenses. Howard University will name its College of Fine Arts after the actor and alumnus Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer last year.Īfter Colonial Pipeline, how can the U.S. The airline industry is under pressure to reduce carbon emissions. New York City will increase rent subsidies for people who are homeless or facing eviction. has experienced a recent outbreak of anti-Semitic threats and violence. And California will give away $116.5 million to some vaccinated residents. adults may be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the summer, according to a poll. In Hong Kong, jails are filling up with dissidents.Ī Times visual investigation shows how the police in Colombia use deadly, indiscriminate force against protesters. Germany said it would recognize its 20th-century mass killings in Namibia as genocide. President Emmanuel Macron of France said his country had “a duty to confront history” and to acknowledge that it had enabled the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Paul Ryan, the Republican former House speaker, urged Republicans to reject “the populist appeal of one personality.” Senate Republicans countered Biden’s large infrastructure proposal with one that has one-seventh as much new spending. will not rejoin an agreement with Russia that allows the countries to monitor each other’s military movements.

Russia appears to be carrying out a cyberattack through an email system that the State Department’s international aid agency uses, according to Microsoft. We can fix what we broke.” THE LATEST NEWS Politics But San Francisco has shown that highways can be taken out and relocated.

On the same topic, Noah Smith of Bloomberg Opinion writes: “It’s difficult to overstate the damage that we did to our cities by putting giant highways right through the middle of neighborhoods.

“As recently as a decade ago,” said Peter Norton, a University of Virginia historian, “every transportation problem was a problem to be solved with new roads.” That’s not always the case anymore. One telling statistic comes from Michael Sivak of Sivak Applied Research: After decades of uninterrupted increases, the number of miles driven each year by the average American peaked in 2004. But it is realistic in cities, and more city residents and planners are starting to question whether they want major highways running through their neighborhoods. Mass transit is not a realistic option in less populated places. The automobile remains the dominant way that Americans move around, and that will not change anytime soon.

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