A devastating email breach of the D.N.C. roiled Democrats in the final months of 2016. An unassuming security official made it his mission to prevent a recurrence.
May 29, 2021, 9:02 a.m. ET
When Land Oâ Lakes redesigned its packaging last year to remove a decades-old illustration of a Native America woman, it seemed like just another dust-up in the culture wars. Liberal activists and politicians praised the company for abandoning stereotypical imagery. The conservative National Review ran a story titled âLand OâLakes Cancels Its Century-Old Native American âButter Maiden.ââ Some customers boycotted the company for its âvirtue signaling.â
But according to the Land Oâ Lakes chief executive, Beth Ford, the decision had nothing to do with any of that. Rather, the decision to replace the âbutter maidenâ with images of fields, lakes and farmers was an attempt to play up the companyâs distinguishing feature: that Land Oâ Lakes is a cooperative, owned not by public market shareholders but by the farmers who make its butter, animal feed and more.
E L James, whose new book, “Freed,” continues the “Fifty Shades” story from the man’s perspective, talks about spicy romances, joining Clubhouse and reconnecting with Christian and Anastasia.
He Came to Berlin to Change the World. Then the World Changed Berlin.
The Volksbühne theater’s longtime musical director Sir Henry arrived amid a post-Cold War artistic flowering in the city. The musician bemoans what followed.
“We had a job to explain socialism to the encroaching West in Berlin,” John Henry Nijenhuis said.Credit.Lena Mucha for The New York Times
May 28, 2021, 5:37 a.m. ET
BERLIN Not long ago, Sir Henry stood on the main stage of the Volksbühne theater in what was once East Berlin and conducted the cosmos.
In “Quarantine, For Solo Human,” Sir Henry, whose given name is John Henry Nijenhuis, did so as part of an interactive musical installation that sent a planet spiraling through a computer-animated universe using motion-sensor technology.