White House struggle to define its vaccine diplomacy leaves Ukraine hanging
Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration has been pressing Washington for help obtaining vaccines since December, before Donald Trump left office.
Today's Liberal News
Greenland’s Rare-Earth Election
Tunulliarfik Fjord has always played an outsize role in global history. One thousand years ago, the Viking Erik the Red settled there, the last outpost in the Norse expansion into North America. When the United States established a protectorate over Greenland during World War II, it built one of its first airports in what is now Narsarsuaq, a large town on the fjord. And now Tunulliarfik is the site of a mining project that has overturned politics on Greenland.
Biden Announces New Refugee Cap 1 Month After Backlash
The administration announced it was formally raising the cap to 62,500 for the remainder of this fiscal year after blowback last month.
6 Questions for the Boss Who Wants You Back in Your Cubicle
Lidia Morawska has been working in her office for months. You might think that’s because she’s an aerosols expert, and her work is crucial for helping bring the pandemic to heel. But really, it’s because she’s an aerosols expert at Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. The country has recorded only three cases of community transmission of the coronavirus in the past week.
Help! My Roommate Didn’t Come Home One Night. So I Told Her Family She Was Missing.
Did I step over a line here?
China Is a Paper Dragon
China was mentioned only four times in Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, but it shadowed almost every line of the speech. “We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century,” Biden said. His aides describe the president as preoccupied with the challenge from China.
Liz Cheney Slaps Down Trump’s Attempt To Redefine 2020 Election As ‘THE BIG LIE’
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” the Wyoming Republican correctly noted on Monday.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Teen Is About to Fall Down the Male-Power Incel Rabbit Hole
Parenting advice on masculinity, mean girls, and undermining moms.
As Global Pandemic Worsens, U.S. Keeps Blocking Vaccine Patent Waivers Amid Big Pharma Lobbying
Big Pharma has hired an army of lobbyists to pressure U.S. lawmakers to block an effort at the World Trade Organization to loosen intellectual property rules on COVID-19 vaccines, which would allow countries around the world to ramp up production, vaccinate more people and bring the pandemic to an end sooner. Dozens of countries from the Global South, led by India and South Africa, are demanding a temporary waiver on vaccine patents, but rich countries, including the U.S.
May Day 1971: Daniel Ellsberg on Joining Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn at Historic Antiwar Direct Action
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the 1971 May Day protests, when tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., and brought much of the capital to a standstill through acts of civil disobedience. The mass demonstrations terrified the Nixon administration, and police would arrest over 12,000 people — the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.
Chicago Police Need “Overhaul” After Foot Chases Led to Alvarez & Toledo Killings Within 48 Hours
More than 100 people marched alongside the family of Anthony Alvarez in Chicago Saturday, calling for the police officer who shot and killed him to be charged. Newly released video reveals police killed 22-year-old Alvarez while he was running away during a foot chase. Police have not said why they initially confronted and then chased Alvarez, who was killed just two days after Chicago police shot dead another young Latinx male, 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving
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.
12 Pieces of Advice for Better Parenting
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.
Feds rethink vaccination strategy as slowing demand reveals stark divide
The White House expected vaccination rates to drop off in rural communities and among younger people who are hesitant about the shot.
FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days
Let’s talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
What Uber and DoorDash’s Investors Are Suddenly Afraid Of
And what the gig economy really has to fear.
The Real Villains of the Housing Crisis
One group has too much power over what gets built—or, more often, what doesn’t.
Joe Biden Just Wants to Make the U.S. a Normal Country That Isn’t Horrible for Parents
The American Families Plan is really a plan to give us what other industrialized countries already have.
Joe Biden’s Ambitious Plan to Audit the Filthy Rich
A sensible, way overdue idea for fixing the welfare state.
‘A tough call’: Biden considering mandatory Covid vaccines for U.S. troops
The comments from the commander in chief come as the Pentagon has sounded the alarm about service members refusing the shots in large numbers.
Biden’s next pandemic challenge: Getting Americans to accept the virus
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bone Rooms: How Elite Schools and Museums Amassed Black and Native Human Remains Without Consent
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.
After Protests over Unauthorized Use of MOVE Child’s Bones, U. of Pennsylvania & Princeton Apologize
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 Threshold Crossed”: Israel Is Guilty of Apartheid, Human Rights Watch Says for First Time
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.