This is supposed to be the season of unleashed, exuberant exhibitionism. Many of us have swaddled our pale bodies in Lycra and terry cloth for more than a year; the theory of Hot Vax Summer is that we’re long overdue to expose them to the cruel light of other people’s eyes. In the music video for “Solar Power,” Lorde basks on the beach in a lemon-yellow crop top, the symmetry of her rib cage its own work of art.
Parenting advice on in-law favoritism, Disney costumes, and birthday gifts.
“This has the potential to create a houseless generation.
They just have to pay for the interest.
New documents and interviews show how the president and his senior aides cherry-picked evidence and sidelined the government’s own virus sleuths.
Aduhelm is the first drug to target Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years and will have cascading effects on health care costs.
Anti-vaccine fervor spread more widely during the pandemic as the U.S. government urged people to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
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.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
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.
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.
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Geneva for a closely watched summit between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. Topics expected to be discussed include nuclear arms, cybersecurity, Syria, the Iranian nuclear deal, Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Korean Peninsula, Putin’s crackdown on dissent inside Russia and the U.S. military presence near the Russian border.
It is Thursday! We are going into a historic weekend, commemorating the day when the news of slavery’s end finally came to Texas. It is a reminder that Texas lost the war, and for all of their pretend independence, they were Civil War losers who have always needed the United States’ support in order to exist with any autonomy.
It’s not all that hard to influence Rep. Louie Gohmert. He’ll believe just about anything you tell him, so long as it’s outlandish, false, and simple enough for a 3-year-old child—or dog, or dining room table—to understand.
I’m guessing the number of Nigerian princes he’s helped out over the years approaches a baker’s dozen.
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is a very well-known dirtbag bigot. He has been one of the leading vacuous blobs of hate that has taken up the space left by fellow white nationalist former Rep. Steve King. Along with fellow fascist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gosar has founded the America First Caucus—which is exactly the kind of racist and xenophobic drivel you might imagine it to be.
Disgruntled business owners around the country have been complaining loudly about the lack of hired help available to them as the nation slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
But he did add ominously: “Let’s see what happens on that.
LGBTQ people of color—and especially trans people of color—face disproportionate levels of harm, discrimination, and oppression when compared to cisgender, heterosexual populations—especially, white, cisgender, heterosexual populations. LGBTQ folks of color, however, also endure more harm than their white queer peers. For many of us, that information isn’t terribly surprising, though it is of course disturbing.
Republican Ronny Jackson thinks the president should follow in Trump’s footsteps to “document and demonstrate sound mental abilities.
“I don’t care that you don’t care,” Goldberg snapped on “The View.
The new Supreme Court ruling guarantees the law’s survival, but Democrats and Republicans are set to clash over efforts to expand government health coverage.
Debates over critical race theory and women pastors dominated this year’s Southern Baptist Convention meeting, but most votes went for the moderates.
A federal grand jury charged Guy Reffitt with transporting firearms knowing they’d be used unlawfully “in furtherance of a civil disorder.
Somewhere, Samantha is flirting with Jeff Bezos on the moon.
The West Virginia Democrat again expressed hope that “there’s enough good Republicans” who will support a bipartisan outcome on federal voting changes.
I’m not sure where to start with this.
