Trump Shifting Authority Over Military Operations Back to Pentagon

The change reverses what aides say was the Obama administration’s tendency to micromanage, but it could raise questions of whether the president is exercising enough oversight.

New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality

By ALEXANDRA ALTER March 19, 2017 Angie Thomas started writing her young-adult novel, “The Hate U Give,” in reaction to a fatal shooting that took place some 2,000 miles away. But to her it felt deeply personal. Ms. Thomas was a college student...