The April jobs report was strong, with 428,000 new jobs and unemployment holding steady at 3.6%. Black unemployment ticked down to 5.9%, which, while it’s far above white unemployment the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould notes is the first time it’s been under 6% in the pandemic recovery.
That’s the good news. There are key areas of weakness:
The private sector has now gained back 97.
Sagebrush Rebellion PAC, led by former Trump officials, is making a documentary starring the most rabid opponents of the “30×30” initiative.
The former National Security Council analyst predicted how the invasion would have played out had Donald Trump succeeded in overturning the 2020 election.
Every Supreme Court nominee is asked about their views of the landmark abortion rights ruling that has stood for a half-century.
A recent study calculated that in the first year of a baby’s life, parents face 1,750 difficult decisions. These include what to name the baby, whether to breastfeed the baby, how to sleep-train the baby, what pediatrician to take the baby to, and whether to post pictures of the baby on social media. And that is only year one.
How strange it is, the condition of having a body, of being a body. Consider the sponge of the marrow that makes your blood, the skeleton frame that holds in your organs, the tendons that attach your muscles to bone, the heart that pumps blood through your veins, the electrical signals that travel along the optic nerve from your retinas, the neural networks that light up the galaxies of your brain like constellations.
The single-shot Covid-19 vaccine will now only be available for adults who cannot or will not receive an mRNA vaccine.
The push to develop daily oral contraceptives without prescription has been years in the making.
Rates this year could reach their highest levels since before the 2008 Wall Street crash if surging prices continue.
The government said gross domestic product shrank at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the first quarter.
The steady spending suggested the economy could keep expanding this year even though the Federal Reserve plans to raise rates aggressively to fight the inflation surge.
The war in Ukraine will “severely” set back the global recovery from Covid-19, according to the IMF.
The Fed’s campaign to raise interest rates — designed to reduce spending and curb inflation — will slow growth, which will have consequences for American workers.
We speak to Yale University historian Timothy Snyder about his latest article for The New Yorker, “The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War.” Snyder writes about the colonial history that laid the foundations for the Russian war in Ukraine, such as Russia’s imperial vision and how leaders including Hitler and Stalin have aimed to conquer Ukrainian soil on different premises. “The whole history of colonialism … involves denying that another people is real.
A protester made his feelings about the Texas Republican crystal clear in uncensored footage that made it to air.
“You had to have been there” when the pressure campaign against Ukraine to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden rolled out, he tells The Washington Post.
Three seismic events have occurred in one go in Northern Ireland. One, for the first time in Northern Ireland’s 100-year existence, an Irish nationalist party placed first in an election—and not just any nationalist party, but Sinn Fein, the longtime political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
The more I’ve gotten to know her, the more I’ve come to think that Wang Tzu-Hsuan exemplifies some of the best qualities of the younger Taiwanese I’ve met here in Taipei: open-minded, serious but not too serious, spontaneous, and thoughtful. At 33, she is unlike most surgeons in Taiwan—who are typically older, and male—and while many of her medical-school classmates sought more lucrative careers in the United States, she opted to stay, out of a sense of duty.
Three seismic events have occurred in one go in Northern Ireland. One, for the first time in Northern Ireland’s 100-year existence, an Irish nationalist party placed first in an election—and not just any nationalist party, but Sinn Fein, the longtime political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
The more I’ve gotten to know her, the more I’ve come to think that Wang Tzu-Hsuan exemplifies some of the best qualities of the younger Taiwanese I’ve met here in Taipei: open-minded, serious but not too serious, spontaneous, and thoughtful. At 33, she is unlike most surgeons in Taiwan—who are typically older, and male—and while many of her medical-school classmates sought more lucrative careers in the United States, she opted to stay, out of a sense of duty.
Some Republicans continue to question Mehmet Oz’s conservative bona fides.
The Supreme Court won’t be an “institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want,” Justice Thomas said at a judicial conference, according to Reuters.
Oz voted in the last Turkish presidential election, his spokesperson confirmed.
It is Friday. This has been a doozy of a week. The Republican Party, the hypocritical evangelicals, and Christian conservatives who follow them are now on the precipice of receiving the deliverance they have been looking for: no rights for people who can get pregnant and no reproductive rights for anyone. The GOP is doing the doublespeak and doublethink of telling America that nothing has changed and nothing drastic will come of the overturning of Roe v.
This past Monday, a local Telegram account gave us the first inkling something was happening near Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast. The account claimed that Ukraine had pushed Russians out of Staryi Saltiv, well east of the last known Ukrainian positions around Kharkiv (as well as complained that withdrawing Russians had run over his aviary). It’s as if Ukraine had leap-frogged a whole string of villages en route to the key city on the Donets.
Despite Donald Trump’s early assurances that he beat Chiiiii-na all the time, one of his favorite pastimes as president was losing to the country—while encouraging its worst excesses.
Trump made a big show of acting tough toward China—imposing tariffs that succeeded in punishing our own citizens far more than Xi Jinping’s—but he ultimately lost his trade war, and rather decisively at that.
If you hadn’t heard, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is stepping down from her duties today after a solid year and a half of service. Replacing her will be current Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Psaki and Jean-Pierre appeared together in front of the podium in the White House briefing room on Thursday for that announcement.
But on Thursday, Psaki was still the acting White House press secretary and that means answering some bad questions.
As Daily Kos has covered at length, Republicans are making it exceptionally difficult for LGBTQ+ students, teachers, families, and frankly, people in general. This sad fact is unfortunately especially true in the state of Florida, with a special thanks to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the discriminatory Don’t Say Gay bill into law. In short, the legislation bars public school staff, including teachers, from discussing LGBTQ+ topics or identities in the classroom.
The nation’s top medical adviser expressed private frustration that elite D.C. no longer seems to take the Covid threat seriously.
The case numbers in the U.S. and globally are still relatively low, but their severity has clinicians worried.