Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. A week after FDA and CDC advisory committees clashed on the nuances of when and whether to recommend COVID-19 booster shots, Anthony Fauci told my colleague Ed Yong that he still believes third doses of the mRNA vaccines are crucial, suggesting once again that they will eventually be part of a standard regimen.
This is an excerpt from The Atlantic’s climate newsletter, The Weekly Planet. Subscribe today.One theme of this newsletter is that the world’s physical infrastructure will have to massively change if we want to decarbonize the economy by 2050, which the United Nations has said is necessary to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Judge Emmet Sullivan, accepting a guilty plea from Trump supporter Dawn Bancroft, called her comments about wanting to shoot Nancy Pelosi “outrageous.
Either the senator from Massachusetts is playing some four-dimensional chess, or she really loathes him.
Chalk up one more anomaly to These Unprecedented Times: Something genuinely weird is happening on an NFL broadcast. For this season of its marquee Monday Night Football program, ESPN is airing an additional broadcast featuring the brothers and retired Super Bowl–winning quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning.
“I think he’ll be welcomed back into Chicago as a person who can be redeemed,” the Illinois lawmaker said.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is threatening to revolt if Democratic leaders don’t make good on their promises.
How do I even respond?
Officials said the number of unvaccinated workers in the city is small enough that it shouldn’t cause big disruptions.
The sheer breadth of qualifying medical conditions and occupations, plus the lack of any proof requirements, means just about anyone who got the Pfizer vaccine can now seek out a booster.
We go to Chicago for an update on workers at El Milagro tortilla plants who staged a temporary walkout last week to protest low pay, staff shortages and abusive working conditions, including intimidation and sexual harassment. El Milagro claims an ongoing tortilla shortage is due to supply chain issues, but organizers say the company has lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers, including their mishandling of the pandemic, resulting in dozens of infections and five deaths.
Did the CIA under the Trump administration plan to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a shootout in London? That is one of the explosive findings in a new exposé by Yahoo News that details how the CIA considered abducting and possibly murdering Assange while he took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid being extradited to Sweden for rape allegations, charges that were dropped in 2017.
R&B singer R. Kelly is guilty of a series of charges, including racketeering based on sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping, forced labor and transporting people across state lines for sex. Jurors in the federal trial returned their verdict Monday after 11 accusers — nine women and two men — and 34 other witnesses detailed Kelly’s pattern of sexual and other abuse against dozens of women and underage girls for nearly two decades.
Bill has no remorse or compassion.
Parenting advice on abortion, race, and being an auntie.
Whether to eat the plant-based pig substitute is a real quandary for Muslims like me. (It looks delicious.
Beijing concluded it was an energy sucking money laundering tool, among other things.
Business owners and conservatives insisted on yanking away benefits. If it wasn’t productive, then it was just cruel.
He’s too sick to live independently and too toxic to let him move in.
The GOP is risking the full faith and credit of the United States to score points. Democrats don’t have to play the game.
He denies it, but I don’t believe him.
The Biden administration last week announced that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine will be available to parts of the population.
Staff described a summer marked by demands to digest complex data in record time as the government raced to update policies in the face of Delta.
“We have the tools to beat Covid if we come together as a country and use the tools we have,” Biden said.
It’s not just about the sex.
With the deadline looming, the White House is starting to ramp up pressure on Republicans.
The central bank said it’s making progress toward its goals of averaging 2 percent inflation over time and reaching maximum employment.
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
Longtime diplomat Daniel Foote, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, has resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s mass deportation of Haitian asylum seekers and meddling in Haiti’s political affairs. The resignation comes days after U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas.