My Partner’s Food Addiction Is Breaking Our Budget
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The Perverse Reason It’s Easier to Build New Highways Than New Subways
A well-meaning rule is working completely backward.
I Want to Make Sure My Girlfriend’s Daughter Doesn’t Get a Penny When I Die
And I would rather they find out after I’m gone.
The Stock Market Is Still Weird From GameStop
From literally pantsless CEOs to the Reddit mob’s muscle, we’re still living in the meme-stock moment.
Kentucky governor suffers legal defeat in combating Covid surge
The state’s high court on Saturday cleared the way for laws reining in his emergency powers to take effect.
FDA approval of Pfizer Covid shot could come next week
The decision would apply to people 16 and older. Officials hope it will convince some vaccine holdouts to get inoculated.
Help! My Husband Cheated—and Now the Woman Just Became His Co-Worker.
I want to believe that it really is coincidence, but I’m struggling.
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.
U.S. economy surpasses prepandemic size with 6.5% Q2 growth
The growth is another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.
Virus resurgence menaces economy just as rescue programs unravel
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.
Spencer Ackerman on How the U.S. War on Terror Fueled and Excused Right-Wing Extremism at Home
As Republicans raise concerns that Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops will turn Afghanistan “back to a pre-9/11 state — a breeding ground for terrorism,” Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter Spencer Ackerman lays out how the U.S. war on terror after the September 2001 attacks actually fueled white, right-wing extremism. Ackerman says U.S.
Spencer Ackerman: Today’s Crisis in Kabul Is Direct Result of Decades of U.S. War & Destabilization
As thousands of Afghans try to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control, we look at the roots of the longest U.S. war in history and spend the hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter Spencer Ackerman.
Alex Jones Flips On Trump, Decides Maybe ‘He’s A Dumbass’
The Infowars conspiracy theorist raged at the former president for recommending the COVID-19 vaccines.
News Roundup: Full FDA approval for COVID-19 vaccine; Americans support asylum for Afghan allies
In the news today: The first COVID-19 vaccine gets full FDA approval—and a truly terrible brand name. A new poll shows near-universal American support for allowing Afghans who aided U.S. war efforts to come to the United States. The fascist pro-violence group Proud Boys continue their violent riots, and Portland, Oregon’s police department continues to assist them in doing it.
New Jersey advocates applaud law banning new ICE contracts, urge release of detained immigrants
With the stroke of a pen, New Jersey has become the fifth state in the nation to severely limit or outright ban federal immigration detention. Advocates across the state (and country) celebrated when Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed a historic bill that bans new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts in the state and prohibits the renewal of existing agreements.
Texas Republican says the best way to handle climate change is to ‘turn the damn air conditioner up’
Whether you believe it is branded better as climate change or global warming, one thing is clear: Human-driven environmental disasters are a very real thing, and it is only going to get worse. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a truly disastrous report at the beginning of August.
Vaccine Mandates Start Rolling Out After FDA Gives Pfizer Shot Full Approval
Governments, school districts and businesses are all proceeding with new vaccine requirements.
Racist former ice-cream shop owner made to pay BLM protesters he tried to weaponize police against
After falsely accusing Black Lives Matter protesters of a crime, a former New York ice cream shop owner has been ordered to pay each of the protesters $500, amounting to $4,500.
U.S. Troops Surge Evacuations Out Of Kabul But Threats Persist
About 10,400 people were ferried out of Afghanistan on 28 U.S. military flights over a period of 24 hours.
The FDA Really Did Have to Take This Long
After months of anticipation, Americans have a fully licensed COVID-19 vaccine. Today, the FDA announced the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s shot for people 16 and older—the first complete thumbs-up among the three vaccines available in the U.S.The pervasive mood has been: Finally. Pfizer’s shot was given its emergency use authorization—the vaccine’s training wheels—back in December, and the company submitted its application for full approval in May.
Doctors stage walkout in Florida, beg the public to get vaccinated amid COVID-19 pandemic
Since the novel coronavirus pandemic first hit the United States, people on all sides of the political aisle have praised physicians—as well as others in health care, like nurses and janitorial and cooking staffs—for their tireless work and dedication in the face of increased workload and, frankly, increased trauma.
The Death Toll of Delay
This morning, the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine for use in people 16 and older. Although “the vaccine approval was the fastest in the agency’s history,” as The Washington Post noted, serious side effects have proved extremely rare. Nevertheless, anti-vaccine activists—and the politicians and pundits pandering to them—have criticized the accelerated approval process as rushed.
Online Sleuths Identify Second Jan. 6 Rioter Seen Battling DC Cop Who Died By Suicide
The online “Sedition Hunters” helped an officer’s widow untangle a web of evidence that tells the story of what happened to her husband that day.
Biden urges employers to require Covid vaccination
The president’s call for schools and business to require vaccination comes amid stiff resistance by some Republican governors and lawmakers.
Help! I’m Going Through IVF. I Can’t Stand the Way My Pregnant Friend Treats Me.
Infertility is hard, but it is actually not my entire life or identity.
It Appears My New Boyfriend Never Got a Crucial Lesson About His Penis
I’m not sure how a grown man doesn’t know this.
Nancy Pelosi In Showdown With Centrist Democrats Over Infrastructure Bill
Democrats are fighting among themselves over the order in which they pass bills they say they all support.