As President Joe Biden prepares to sign the sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID relief package into law, we speak with economist Stephanie Kelton, author of “The Deficit Myth,” about how the bill could help cut child poverty in half and provide a historic economic boost to the poorest people in the United States.
It isn’t dystopian. It’s creative reuse.
Parenting advice on sudden SAHMs, name disagreements, and ableism in the group chat.
Go outside. Take a small trip. Don’t interact with that one guy.
I like to think of this exercise as “productivity defined downward.
The company rebranded as WW in 2018, but it’s still selling the same unhealthy diet culture.
Our memories are stored up in the places we couldn’t go.
Oh good, the Democrats are avoiding the obvious political disaster they were loudly warned about.
The Biden administration put the highly anticipated guidelines on hold last week in part over concerns about the wording and the recommendations around quarantining.
The expansion in vaccine supply marks a critical time to confront deep skepticism among large numbers of rural whites and Republicans.
But Mike DeWine and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson both decline to attack fellow GOP governors who have lifted them.
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
“I mean, Shaq has a SPAC. What could go wrong?” one economist says of the euphoria rippling through Wall Street and raising a new round of worries.
Only businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be able to apply for aid through the massive Paycheck Protection Program.
Allies laud Brian Deese’s leadership on the stimulus negotiations, but he’s rubbed some the wrong way.
A new feature film, “The Mauritanian,” tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held without charge for 14 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo and repeatedly tortured. We speak with Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who says the film is not just about his struggle. “This is not my movie. This is the movie of so many people,” he says. “Some of the people who were kidnapped after 9/11 were tortured to death.
“Please don’t patronize me by telling me that the oil and gas industry doesn’t have any special tax provisions,” the California Democrat told the company chief.
As the American Rescue Plan inches towards becoming law (a final vote in the House is expected tomorrow), the Biden administration continues to undo Trump damage and federal investigators continue to warn of the dangers posed by the insurrectionist far-right. Meanwhile, the interminable world focus on Britain’s royalty has finally achieved at least something worthwhile: booting the still-insufferable Piers Morgan into self-exile.
Supporters hope the new law will force the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider legal abortion.
Supporters hope the new law will force the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider legal abortion.
This is why you don’t take medical advice from failed meat-mongers who stare directly into the sun. As he was preparing to have his ass handed to him by Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
My dearest Republicans, I know that somewhere, way back deep in the recesses of your memories, when you ran for elected office—maybe not all, but at least some of you—had some sense that you might actually do something good for the country. That you had something—it may not have been much, but something, at least—to contribute to make this country just a little bit better.
The unnamed aide claimed the New York governor inappropriately touched her late last year at the governor’s mansion, the Times Union reported.
The Ohio Democrat implored Republicans to stop with the culture war and “start working with us” to pass legislation to help Americans.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, like many politicians (and people for that matter), has embellished his personal history at points. Cawthorn, unlike most people, has seemingly generated an almost entirely fact-free mythology about himself. He’s lied about being accepted into schools. He’s lied about anonymously running a racist website that attacked his opponent in the North Carolina District 11 elections. He’s lied about his pursuit of Olympic excellence.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
Not one but three professors from the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos of them dressed in racially insensitive Halloween costumes surfaced. According to the Associated Press, the photos are from a 2014 on-campus party, in which one professor identified as Bob Wood dressed as a Confederate soldier while the other two identified as Alex Sharland and Teresa Weldy posed with whips and nooses.
He wouldn’t nuke it. But his ideas might help neutralize it.
The legislation prohibits abortion in the state unless a pregnancy poses a risk to the mother’s life. A legal challenge to the bill is virtually certain.
The portraits were removed from the White House’s grand foyer during the Trump administration and relegated to a little-used room, far from Trump’s sight.