I thought I saw something in the road.It was after 1 a.m. one night in April 2016, and I was heading home from a friend’s house on the outskirts of Atlanta. From a distance, the dark spot looked like an oil stain. Then she turned her head and my headlights lit her face. A woman in dark clothing was standing in my lane on Interstate 75. I pounded the brake, but I was too late.
Editor’s Note: With Lori Gottlieb on book leave, Rebecca J. Rosen, the editor of “Dear Therapist,” begins another month as The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” archivist, pointing readers to some of Lori’s most beloved columns. For this month’s “Dear Therapist” roundup, I’ve gathered together a set of columns on one of the topics Lori covers often: parenthood.Parents write to Lori frequently.
The White House expected vaccination rates to drop off in rural communities and among younger people who are hesitant about the shot.
Let’s talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
And what the gig economy really has to fear.
One group has too much power over what gets built—or, more often, what doesn’t.
The American Families Plan is really a plan to give us what other industrialized countries already have.
A sensible, way overdue idea for fixing the welfare state.
The comments from the commander in chief come as the Pentagon has sounded the alarm about service members refusing the shots in large numbers.
The challenge for Biden, his response team and state health officials will be managing the rolling series of outbreaks possibly driven by more dangerous virus variants.
The agency has long faced calls to act on menthol cigarettes, which are disproportionately smoked by Black Americans and teens just starting to use tobacco.
The menthol ban would be one of FDA’s most aggressive tobacco reform efforts since the agency first began regulating the industry in 2009.
The announcement Monday followed a call between President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“There were elements of growth in the balance from what I can see and understand,” Carney said in a long response that didn’t directly answer the question.
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Revelations the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton hold the remains of a child killed by Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing are the latest development in a conversation about demanding respectful treatment of African American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved.
Following protests, two Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University — have issued apologies for their handling of the remains of an African American child killed by the Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
A major new report by Human Rights Watch says for the first time that Israel is committing crimes of apartheid and persecution in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The international human rights group says Israeli authorities dispossessed, confined and forcibly separated Palestinians. “For years, prominent voices have warned that apartheid lurked just around the corner.
On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Joe Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress and proposed trillions of dollars in new economic measures. He unveiled his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which includes $1 trillion in new spending and $800 billion in tax credits aimed at expanding access to education and child care.
Some Republicans now want to “move on” from a profound division they created, the CNN host noted.
Union officials called the money grab a “scandal” and are calling for a government investigation.
In today’s news: The Republican Party continues to go off the rails. What rails? All the rails. Every single rail. And there’s no hint of it getting better anytime soon.
The big push is on to blame the American Rescue Plan for businesses not being able to find enough workers to fill their jobs. Business owners—restaurant owners in particular—are lining up to tell reporters how those darn lazy workers would rather stay home and collect unemployment than go back to work.
One hundred days into Joe Biden’s presidency, everyone living in a reality-based world is getting the sense that the 46th president of the United States might be on the way to making history.
The potential for Biden to enact historic change has been fueled by a confluence of factors, including a catastrophic pandemic that has arguably become the nation’s deadliest public health crisis in a century and has devastated the economy in the process.
A Black Georgia librarian filed a federal lawsuit last month after she said North Carolina law enforcement officers pulled her by her hair, tore her rotator cuff, and unlawfully searched her purse and vehicle for going 10 miles over the speed limit.
It’s sometimes easy to think of Daily Kos as a place that reacts to the news, digesting and analyzing reporting done elsewhere rather than generating original content. That’s never been true.
Walter Shaub’s castigation came after the Republican said his party will no longer give special treatment to deep-pocket corporate donors if they get too “woke.
It’s hard to overstate how large the rapture looms for many evangelicals in America,
Earlier in the day, the Republican senator was booed while speaking at the Utah GOP’s annual convention.
