Rush to close vaccination gap for Hispanics
Hispanic communities are among those most eager to get Covid shots, but officials have struggled to address longstanding barriers to care.
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Inside William Barr’s Breakup With Trump
Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him. To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward and declared that there had been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, just as the president was trying to overturn Joe Biden’s victory by claiming that the election had been stolen.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Cousin Has the Most Atrocious Table Manners
Parenting advice on etiquette, bookworms, and teen privacy.
The Miami Building Collapse Is a Warning
Waiting to trace the exact lines of causation misses the point.
How to Make Peter Thiel Pay Taxes on His Shady $5 Billion Roth IRA
It’s probably legal, but it shouldn’t be.
My Mother Told My Sister She’d Make Her the Sole Heir to Her Millions
She’s played us against each other our entire lives.
We Already Know One Winner of the New York City Mayoral Race
Even if we’re still waiting for a new mayor.
States Have Cut Off Unemployment. So Why Aren’t More People Looking for Jobs?
Republicans yanked away federal help to nudge people back to work. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working.
College vaccine mandates rile GOP states
The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
The Supreme Court saved Obamacare. Now supporters want Biden to fix the law.
Pressure is building on Biden to address the law’s underlying problems now that it has survived the latest Supreme Court challenge.
FDA to add warning about rare heart inflammation to Moderna, Pfizer vaccine fact sheets
A CDC safety panel has determined there is a “likely association” between the Pfizer and Moderna shots and cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccine recipients.
The Atlantic Daily: Pride Is Expanding Exactly as It Should
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Lucy Jones
The first Pride marches were intended to be a radical reclaiming of personhood and power by a community that society had shunned.
No One Imagined Giant Lizard Nests Would Be This Weird
After many futile hours of shoveling dirt under the scorching Australian sun, Sean Doody began to think that he had made an embarrassing mistake and was—quite literally—digging himself into a hole. Doody is a herpetologist from the University of South Florida who has spent years studying Australia’s yellow-spotted goanna—a predatory monitor lizard with long claws, a whiplike tail, and a sinuous, muscular body that can reach five feet in length.
Dear Care and Feeding: When Did Parents Stop Parenting in Public?
Parenting advice on kids in adult spaces, teenage dating, and hiring cleaning help.
The Right May Be Giving Up the “Lost Cause,” but What’s Next Could Be Worse
The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.
Is It Legal That Britney Spears Can’t Remove Her IUD? Can’t See Her Friends? An Expert Explains What She Should Do Next.
It was probably a good idea for her to speak out.
Sniffing Around for Quick, Cruisy “Connections” This Hot Vax Summer?
Sniffies—an upstart, very upfront gay hookup site—is here to help.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Meet the Father Who Tricked Ex-NRA Head into Addressing 3,044 Empty Chairs for Gun Violence Victims
The parents of a student killed in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School duped a former president of the National Rifle Association into giving a high school graduation speech defending gun rights in front of 3,044 empty white chairs — one chair for each student who could not graduate this year because they were killed by gun violence.
Afghan President Ghani Visits White House as His Government Nears Collapse
The Taliban have continued seizing districts in Afghanistan ahead of the U.S. military pullout set for September 11, now holding twice as much territory as they did two months ago. According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the government of Afghanistan could collapse within six months of the U.S. withdrawal. The Biden administration is reportedly planning to keep 650 troops in Afghanistan after the September 11 deadline, and the U.S.
A Political Solution Is the Only Way: Crisis Escalates in Ethiopia Amid War, Famine & Elections
An Ethiopian military bombing of a marketplace in the Tigray region killed at least 64 people in one of the deadliest attacks since government forces invaded the region last November. The bombing came just a day after Ethiopians voted in national and regional elections, but polls could not open in some areas due to ongoing fighting. The country is still waiting for results that will determine if the ruling coalition, led by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, stays in power.
Sen. Merkley on Voting Rights, the Filibuster & Why Infrastructure Deal Must Address Climate Crisis
Pressure is growing on Democrats to abolish the Senate filibuster in order to pass a major voting rights bill and other legislation. Republicans this week used the filibuster to prevent debate on the For the People Act, which would restore the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act gutted by the Supreme Court eight years ago.
A bad law could do something good: Prosecute Jan. 6 speakers and insurgents using the Smith Act
There are laws whose purpose is an unalloyed good, such as the Civil Rights Act. There are others whose origins are definitively gray, and whose utilization has put them in support of both justice and injustice, and whose use is more a measure of the person wielding the law than the contents of the legislation. Consider the uses of the Insurrection Act.
Then there are laws that seem at best misguided, and at worse, simply bad—like the Smith Act.
Collapsed Florida condo had ‘major structural damage’ that was reported to HOA in 2018
At least 159 people remain unaccounted for in the Champlain Towers South condo collapse, with four reported dead as of this writing.
Biden outplayed Republicans on infrastructure, but it only counts if he gets a reconciliation deal
“We have a deal,” President Joe Biden announced Thursday, celebrating the framework of a bipartisan infrastructure deal worth $1.2 trillion, only about $580 billion of which would be new spending.
“They have my word, I’ll stick with what they’ve proposed,” Biden said, flanked by a core group of Senate Democrats and Republicans. “And they’ve given me their word as well. Where I come from, that’s good enough for me.
It could have been worse—Trump wanted to use active duty military to clear the streets of D.C.
The Insurrection Act, allowing the president to deploy military forces within the United States, was signed into law in 1807. Of the course of that 214 history, the law has been used for vastly different purposes. In 1871, Ulysses Grant used it to position federal forces against the Klu Klux Klan after Klansmen conducted waves of lynchings killing thousands, including hundreds of Black politicians, across the South.