Most Americans Would Take a Pay Cut to Keep Working From Home
The post-pandemic office is coming into view.
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FDA readies plan to bar menthol cigarettes nationwide
The menthol ban would be one of FDA’s most aggressive tobacco reform efforts since the agency first began regulating the industry in 2009.
Biden’s Covid team split over decision to send vaccine doses abroad
The announcement Monday followed a call between President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
CDC: Vaccinated Americans can go maskless outdoors in many situations
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the guidelines, saying the agency had made the changes after studying how likely vaccinated people are to transmit the virus.
HHS secretary: ‘A lot of folks would listen’ if Trump made vaccine PSA
Xavier Becerra’s remarks come as the U.S. vaccine supply is beginning to outpace demand.
Don’t Fall for Fertility Fearmongering About Trans Men
Calls to “protect healthy bodies” are just another form of transphobic control.
I’ve Kept a Horrible Secret From My Husband for Years. I Don’t How I Can Ever Tell Him.
It happened years ago.
Mark Carney on Canada’s economic growth: ‘It’s going to take more than one budget’
“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.
How the Trudeau government plans to meet its climate goals
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Biden’s spending plans collide with a resurgent U.S. economy
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
Rudy Giuliani’s First Interview About FBI Raid Goes Just As You’d Expect
Trump’s former personal lawyer joined forces with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to somehow make it about Hunter Biden.
Florida GOP Awaits Governor’s Signature On Draconian Voting Restrictions
Florida will likely join Georgia in restricting votes-by-mail, a move that particularly targets Democratic voters after Biden’s win in 2020.
News Roundup: Biden speech reactions; ‘bipartisan’ chances fade; new hate crime indictments
In today’s news: Reactions to President Joe Biden’s speech. Democrats warn Republican colleagues that patience for the usual stalling tactics is running thin. Federal hate crime charges are filed against the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery one year ago.
Ex-Georgia deputy boasted of charging Black people with felonies to make sure they lost their vote
In recent months, as less and less white people support voter suppression and more and more people of color organize around gaining political power, our country has once again reached an inflection point. Republican operatives across the country, long pushing for voter suppression laws that target Black and Latino communities, have decided to be even more overt in their attempts at returning to a pre-Brown v.
This Week in Statehouse Action: State of Mind edition
So the weather is getting warmer, we’re getting vaccinated, and … is this hope?
Nah, that’s indigestion.
Because even as federal politics is boring again, state-level political action remains a shitshow, and this week brought a reminder of the disaster to come next year.
Specifically, redistricting.
This week, the U.S.
Trump Launches Scathing Attack On Rudy Giuliani House Raid: ‘It Was, Like, So Unfair’
Trump called his former personal attorney, who was an unregistered foreign agent, a “great patriot.
‘You can do it, governor’: Dolores Huerta urges New Jersey leaders pass relief for excluded workers
Immigrants and allies who are three weeks into a hunger strike urging New Jersey leaders to act on a pandemic relief fund for excluded workers can now count a legendary labor leader and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate as some of their most recent supporters.
Michael Cohen Predicts Rudy Giuliani Will Flip On Trump
Trump’s former fixer gloated on CNN about the FBI raid on Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office.
‘Rudy, I told you so’: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has thoughts about Giuliani’s current situation
Former personal lawyer to twice impeached Donald Trump, is currently serving a 36-month house arrest sentence for his part in orchestrating a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The payments were done on behalf of Donald Trump and Michael Cohen’s deal with prosecutors to hand over more evidence of Trump’s dubious dealings has always been considered a ticking time bomb.
Donald Trump Jr. Comes For Rep. Liz Cheney After She Fist-Bumps President Biden
He can’t imagine people with disagreements being civil to each other.
Listen: The Consequences of Vaccine Nationalism
While wealthier countries reopen, India and the rest of the world face a terrifying new peak in the pandemic. How did it come to this? What can be done? And with new variants and limited supplies, how does the global vaccine strategy need to change to prevent more coronavirus spikes?Staff writer Yasmeen Serhan joins James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins on the podcast Social Distance to explain.
He Told Me He’d “Wanted Me Since the Day We Met.” When We Met, I Was 12.
Before he was Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me.
The Real Villains of the Housing Crisis
One group has too much power over what gets built—or, more often, what doesn’t.
The Fleeting Promise of a Peaceful Ethiopia
The morning after the 2020 presidential election, as ballots were still being counted in several battleground states and then-President Donald Trump drummed up dangerous conspiracy theories about the impending results, many Ethiopians in the U.S. woke up to distressing political news from back home, too. The Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, had announced a military offensive in Tigray, the northernmost region of the East African country.
Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real
Updated at 4:39 p.m. ET on April 29, 2021.On my kitchen wall hangs a very small and very adorable cat calendar, with May 23 circled in Sharpie. It’s the day my Pfizer vaccine will, at long last, blossom into “full vaccination,” as sanctioned by the CDC. I’ll be able to safely venture outdoors unmasked and skip post-exposure quarantines.
FDA says it will ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars
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.
“Rejection of the Neoliberal Framework”: Biden Proposes Trillions in New Spending, Taxes on the Rich
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.
How Lifting Intellectual Property Restrictions Could Help World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, overwhelming hospitals and crematories, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess supply of COVID-19 vaccines and to loosen intellectual property restrictions preventing more countries from making their own vaccines. We speak with economist Jayati Ghosh and Congressmember Ro Khanna of California.
New COVID-19 Variant, Linked to India’s Record Wave of Infections & Deaths, Now Seen in 19 Countries
As India faces 1 million new COVID-19 infections every three days, we look at how more infectious variants have been linked to a spread in cases. The so-called India variant has now been detected in at least 19 countries. “This virus behaves differently now, in that it’s much more infectious,” says Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, an infectious disease physician at the Mayo Clinic.
The Modi Surge: COVID-19 Cases Overwhelm India’s Healthcare System as Gov’t Censors Critics
India has topped 18.3 million COVID-19 cases, after adding 1 million cases in just the past three days amid shortages in vital supplies and overwhelmed hospitals across the country. Makeshift mass cremation facilities have been set up in parks and parking lots, with rows of bodies being burned on funeral pyres. With hospitals overflowing, some patients have been turned away and left to deal with their infections on their own.