Black Activist Athlete Gwen Berry Turns Back On Flag During Anthem At Olympic Trials
“The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has,” said the hammer thrower, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
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News Roundup: Mike Gravel dies at 91; William Barr wants redemption; Republicans defunding police
In the news today: Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel, most known for his courage in exposing the Pentagon Papers that detailed the truth of the U.S. war in Vietnam, has died at 91. William Barr begins his redemption tour with a self-serving version of why he left Trump’s orbit—too late to stop Trump from goading a violent insurrection.
The Trump Organization Has One More Day To Convince Prosecutors Against Charges
The company, which New York prosecutors are probing over its financial dealings, has until Monday to persuade them against filing criminal charges.
How an American family raised on GE wages copes with income inequality
‘Why would I put my kids in a place where there is no future?’
By Jessica Goodheart, for Capital and Main
Kathleen DeSisto has a good job, a house, four kids and, as she affectionately puts it, “a man-child” at home—a husband who is also gainfully employed as a manager at a club in downtown Boston. But she’s uneasy.
Most Men’s Favorite Way of Having Sex Is My Personal Nightmare
It’s actually caused me to pass out from anxiety.
Chris Wallace Accuses GOP Of Defunding Police In Testy Fox Interview
“You and every other Republican voted against” the American Rescue Plan with $350 billion for local law enforcement, Wallace noted to GOP Rep. Jim Banks.
The U.S. owes vulnerable Afghans more than a hasty exit
This story was originally published at Prism.
by E. Lily Yu
After over a decade of covert and overt involvement in Afghanistan that cost billions of dollars under multiple administrations, the U.S. exited Afghanistan in 1992, claiming its primary objective had been met. Daniel Berger declared in The Baltimore Sun that “Afghanistan may be safely … left to the Afghans.
Biden Orders Airstrikes Against Iran-Backed Militias In Iraq, Syria, Pentagon Says
A Defense Department spokesperson said the actions were “necessary to address the threat and appropriately limited in scope.
This is the photo that will define Dr. Jill Biden as first lady
Dr. Jill Biden truly is a remarkable person. She was a public school teacher, a child advocate, and became a loving mom to Beau and Hunter—Joe Biden’s two young sons who’d lost their mom and sister in a horrific car accident. Republicans have given up trying to smear her, because they can’t. They certainly can’t make the case that she doesn’t care.
I forgot what it’s like to have a classy, compassionate woman as our first lady.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign: Plan to message critical race theory?
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Over the last week, there have been a lot of discussions in Democratic campaign circles regarding messaging.
Arkansas governor trying to reverse his state’s trends on vaccination
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
Bill Barr On Trump’s Election Fraud Lies: ‘It Was All Bulls**t’
The former attorney general spoke to The Atlantic about his tense final few months working for the Trump administration.
Christian America’s Must-See TV Show
Have you heard about the hit Jesus TV show? The one that launched with a more than $10 million crowdfunding drive? And that streams for free from its own app, where the view counter has surpassed 194 million as of this writing? And that is honestly much better than I expected?By the standards of independent media, The Chosen is a success.
Letter From Prague 1968-1978
When Carolyn Forché used the term “poetry of witness” in her introduction to a 1993 anthology, Against Forgetting, she was the first. By then, she’d spent time in the years from 1978 to 1980 in El Salvador, where she had witnessed violence at the hands of the country’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
Help! My Wife Commissioned a Portrait of Me. It’s Hideous.
I’m not sure how to live with it in my home.
We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries
Since 2012, most of the humans on Earth have been given a nearly annual reminder that there are entire nations of people who are measurably happier than they are. This uplifting yearly notification is known as the World Happiness Report.With the release of each report, which is published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the question is not which country will appear at the top of the rankings, but rather which Northern European country will.
The Real Threat to American Catholicism
Should Catholics who support legal abortion receive Communion, or have they separated themselves from the body of Christ by departing from what the Church teaches? The question took on new urgency, at least for some of the country’s Catholic bishops, when Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic who has promised to protect legal abortion, was elected president.
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.
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.