Today’s Paper

Highlights

1. Family Values or Fighting Valor? Russia Grapples With Women’s Wartime Role.

   Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s conservative agenda.

    By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ekaterina Bodyagina

   

   

2. From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest

   The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

    By Richard Fausset

   

   

3. 1. Dozens Arrested at U.Va. as Other Protests Disrupt Graduations

      Police officers in riot gear cleared an encampment in Virginia, and protesters walked out of a commencement at Indiana University.

       By Emily Cochrane, Ryan Patrick Hooper, Kevin Williams and Jackson Landers

      

      

   2. Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

      All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

       By Apoorva Mandavilli