Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.
Four Slate staffers attempt to unpack what happened this week with the rapper, Twitter, the White House, and swollen testicles.
Today's Liberal News
New York’s Delivery Workers Have Been Exploited for Years. Now They’re Fighting Back.
Workers are banding together to support one another and demand better pay and protections.
DeSantis flirts with the anti-vaccine crowd
The GOP governor has been drifting toward the movement for months.
El Salvador Becomes First Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender Amid Growing Authoritarianism
Thousands in El Salvador took to the streets Wednesday to protest President Nayib Bukele’s growing consolidation of power and a new law making El Salvador the world’s first country to recognize the highly volatile cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender. Protesters in El Salvador are also criticizing a recent court ruling that paves the way for Bukele to run for reelection in 2024.
As Wealthy Nations Debate Giving Booster Vaccine Shots, Calls Grow for Global Vaccine Equity
As the debate over booster vaccine shots heats up in the United States, global health leaders have issued an urgent call for global vaccine equity. The WHO reports vaccination rates on the African continent fall far below its target for 70% of the population of all countries to be vaccinated by mid-2022. “The science is not completely behind the need for booster shots yet,” says Zane Dangor, special adviser to the foreign minister of South Africa, who has called on the U.S.
The Other Afghan Women: Rural Areas Hope Taliban Rule Will End Decades of U.S. & Warlord Violence
Violence in Afghanistan’s countryside has reportedly dropped after the Taliban takeover and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but the country continues to face an ongoing humanitarian and economic crisis, with millions of children at risk of starvation. Joining us from Kabul, New Yorker reporter Anand Gopal says he was shocked by the “sheer level of violence” Afghan women outside the cities have experienced in the last two decades of war.
The Atlantic Devotes Chapter 3 of ‘Inheritance’ Project to ‘What the Body Holds’
Today The Atlantic is publishing a collection of stories, poetry, and photography that serves as a recognition, a celebration, and a reclamation of the Black body. “What the Body Holds” is the third chapter of “Inheritance,” The Atlantic’s ongoing reporting project to fill the blank pages of Black history: to piece together, through reporting and data, the crucial events and conversations that have been intentionally left out of America’s story.
Joe Biden’s New World Order
A new world is beginning to take shape, even if it remains disguised in the clothes of the old.The United States, Britain, and Australia have announced what is in effect a new “Anglo” military alliance. The basics are these: In 2016, Australia struck a deal with France to buy a fleet of diesel-powered submarines, rejecting an Anglo-American alternative for nuclear-powered vessels.
Help! My COVID-Conspiracist Husband Made an Ominous Threat if I Get the Vaccine.
I want to keep our kids safe but don’t know what to do.
Is It Normal That My First Grader Watches Multiple Videos in Class?
Teacher advice on screen time, supporting your trans child, and bullies.
You Can’t Stop Evictions if You Don’t Pay People’s Rent
Some states have botched rental aid so badly they may never catch up.
How the Pandemic Helped Us Recover From the Great Recession
Some industries are having their best years since 2006, but will it last?
Biden’s team tightens grip on state use of Covid antibody treatments
Federal health officials plan to allocate specific amounts to each state under the new approach.
Centrists throw wrench in House Democrats’ drug pricing plans
The standoff is threatening the entire health plank of the party’s mammoth social spending proposal.
AOC’s Met Gala Dress Is Not the Statement She Thinks It Is
The empty spectacle of that TAX THE RICH gown.
My Husband Is Suddenly Very “Well Endowed”—and That’s Presented a Problem
I have one worry in particular.
Biden hails ‘strong’ economic recovery despite disappointing jobs numbers
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Powell walks high wire as Fed plans to ease support for Biden’s economy
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
U.S. jobless claims near pandemic low as economy strengthens
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
House Dem campaign chief warns the majority at risk without message reboot
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Biden’s economic gains come with newer worries about the future
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
News Roundup: Republicans threaten debt standoff; Mike Pence is no hero; Texas vs. tech companies
In the news today: The nation slides towards another self-inflicted crisis as Republicans once again vow to block a debt ceiling boost. The reason? So their party can campaign against Democrats for keeping America’s bills paid. Yet another book of the Trump era explores the depth of the Trump team’s depravity, including the effort Mike Pence went to to try to meet Trump’s demand that the United States presidential election be nullified so that Trump could maintain power.
Northern Idaho hospitals allowed to save beds and ventilators for those ‘most likely to survive’
As hospital workers desperately try to save lives with limited resources and dwindling available beds during the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials Idaho activated a “crisis standards of care” for northern hospitals last week that would in rare cases allow hospitals to save beds and ventilators “for those who are most likely to survive,” The Associated Press reported of the guidelines dated last year.
Inspiration4 is another space tourism venture, but it’s not like the ones we’ve seen before
In the last two months, we’ve watched two billionaires fly their personal rockets on suborbital flights that they celebrated with lots of self-aggrandizement. On Wednesday evening, another billionaire will launch, not on his personal rocket, but on one he’s renting from billionaire No. 4 for another tourist flight. Which, on the face of it, seems like more of the same.
Advocates call for hate crime charges after white woman calls ‘visibly Muslim woman’ a ‘terrorist’
I’m sure we’ve all heard the horror stories about Spirit Airlines, which are primarily known for their cheap but often unpleasant flights. In this case, though, the story isn’t about the inconveniences of flying with Spirit; it deals with the issues of flying while Muslim.
While the phrase is often associated with security and service staff mistreating Muslim travelers, a Muslim woman was harassed and mistreated by another traveler in this incident.
The Space Tourists Are in Control Now
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Before liftoff, the moon was the brightest object in the sky, followed by the tiny, shining pinpricks of Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. Then the rocket rose with a roar, a white-hot needle casting the dark evening in a soft gold. A crew of four sat atop it, strapped inside a small capsule. And none of them—not one—were professional astronauts.The passengers who launched today are SpaceX’s first-ever private crew.
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: A terrifying blow-by-blow recap of a COVID illness
Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist right-wing rhetoric.