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Life & Arts
‘A hero to me’: Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge’s first African-American student
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
June 24, 2022
US race relations
Thousands gather for civil-rights march in Washington
...This year’s demonstration was planned following the widespread protests this summer in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier this year....
August 28, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Coronavirus
Surge in US Covid-19 cases dampens July 4 celebrations
...US media reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle, partner of the president’s son Donald Trump Jr, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday before the Mount Rushmore event....
July 4, 2020
FT Magazine
The fight to overcome vaccine hesitancy among African Americans
...“What about vitamin C? What about sea moss [a type of red seaweed made popular by celebrity Kim Kardashian]?” he asks Fitzpatrick....
February 24, 2021
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
June 5, 2020
FT Swamp Notes
Will Democrats sweep Washington and Wall Street? Premium content
...Only individuals can create the environment for change through their thoughts, actions, and votes.” — Robert S Hatfield Jr, Portland, Oregon...
June 12, 2020
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
UK business
UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
January 3, 2021
ExplainerTrump Russia ties
Mueller report: Here are the key revelations
...Finally, the report lists three completed prosecutions, including cases against George Papadopoulos, Alex van der Zwaan and Richard Pinedo, who was convicted for selling fake IDs to Russians indicted by...
April 18, 2019
Sport
Patriot games: the rebirth of the activist athlete
...On a visit to the White House in 1992, he gave President George HW Bush a letter urging him to address the concerns of the poor and minorities....
October 6, 2017
Life & Arts
Diversity on Broadway: is ‘Hamilton’ the exception?
...Meanwhile, Eustis’s immediate predecessor George C Wolfe directed and wrote the book for Shuffle Along. “The Public has been working towards this moment for 60 years,” says Eustis....
July 1, 2016
ObituaryGun control
James Brady, presidential official, 1940-2014
...The gun was fired by John W Hinckley Jr, a young man apparently out to impress the actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity....
August 8, 2014
ObituaryUS & Canadian companies
Paul Desmarais Sr, Canadian billionaire
...Guests at Sagard have included former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former US President George H.W. Bush....
October 9, 2013
FT Magazine
Washington: a tale of two cities
...“Our share of the pie has gone up like nowhere else in the country,” said Stephen Fuller, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia, who compiled the figures....
May 24, 2013
News in-depthThe Big Read
US taxes: Certain as death, complicated as hell
...They show some of his company’s most prized projects, such as retrofitting the city’s buses with real-time data equipment and building the surveillance system for the Martin Luther King Jr memorial in the...
January 24, 2013
Janan Ganesh
Tories may regret their disdain of Romney
...Their successors, John Major and George H.W. Bush, were not much less friendly as they fought the first Gulf war together....
September 10, 2012
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Climate change
Green goes mainstream in the hunt for yield
...So do the exclusion criteria; Hollands notes that F&C Global Climate Opportunities has a position in Monsanto, the US developer of genetically modified seeds....
May 10, 2013
The World blogEsther Bintliff
Ten key moments in the history of US gun control
...Church and General George Wingate, veterans of the Civil war who had fought for the North and who felt that soldiers should be trained to shoot more accurately....
January 16, 2013
FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack
In America, bigger is better, especially when you’re a bank, and also defaulting
...Which overall puts us in agreement with George Washington University Law Professor Arthur E....
February 18, 2013
US & Canadian companies
Seeking the right pitch over EMI
...Edgar Bronfman Jr of Warner Music, who long pursued an EMI merger, told senators that Mr Grainge’s deal risked creating “one innovation-stifling dominant player”....
July 10, 2012
US politics & policy
Bush notable by absence in Romney campaign
...The last thing Mr Romney, whose path to the Republican nomination is proving slow and gruelling, needs is to be lumbered with the legacy of Mr Bush Jr, analysts say. “George W....
April 3, 2012
News in-depthWorld
Instability of dynastic shift
...Victor Cha, a professor at Georgetown university and former Korea adviser to George W. Bush when US president, says he may not be up to the job....
December 19, 2011
Life & Arts
White House to carriage house
...And lining the wall are a slew of framed political photographs: Frum with former boss George W. Bush – and several Republican activists....
September 16, 2011
Hedge funds
How Smokin’ Joe Frazier defined an era
...B beats C. So when A fights C, surely it is a foregone conclusion? C may have lost to B, but may still have the means of defeating A in an upset that shocks the world....
November 11, 2011
Occupy protests
Corporate leaders say they understand protests
...Everyone is culpable, even going back a president or two before George W. Bush,” said Gilbert Harrison, chief executive of Financo, a boutique bank specialising in retail....
October 17, 2011
US politics & policy
Income levy plan divides richest residents
...The Washington ballot could also be a bellwether for the looming debate in Congress over the expiry of individual tax cuts enacted under George W....
October 27, 2010

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