New York’s Ridiculous Elections Are Why We Could Have Mayor Andrew Yang
In a system designed to suppress turnout, he just might be the low-turnout candidate.
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What HBO’s New Crime Show Gets Exactly Right
There’s a scene in the second episode of Mare of Easttown, HBO’s new crime series, that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since I watched it. Mare, the show’s titular police detective (played by Kate Winslet), visits a rural spot where a girl’s body has been found and prepares to inform the girl’s father.
Biden Hopes Tax Credit Will Encourage Vaccine-Hesitant Americans To Get One Anyway
The money was included in the American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed and Biden signed into law last month.
My Wife Has Declared We Will Never Have Sex Again
She gave me permission to sleep with other women, but she wouldn’t approve of my approach.
FDA inspection report casts doubt on J&J vaccine contractor’s ability to restart production
The FDA said the size and design of Emergent’s manufacturing facilities could prevent its bid to deliver millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines this year.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Wife Refuses to Stop Posting About Our Kids on Social Media
Parenting advice on social media, adoption, and teaching consent.
What Grief Tastes Like
The musician Michelle Zauner’s mother died on October 18, 2014, a date that Zauner would have trouble remembering in the years that followed. She wasn’t quite sure why she was always forgetting it. Maybe this amnesia was her mind’s way of protecting itself. Maybe she scrubbed the detail from memory because it seemed so minute compared to all else she endured as her mother succumbed to cancer.But Zauner hasn’t been able to forget what her mother ate.
We Are Turning COVID-19 Into a Young Person’s Disease
Like many parents, Jason Newland, a pediatrician at Washington University in St. Louis and a dad to three teens ages 19, 17, and 15, now lives in a mixed-vaccination household. His 19-year-old got vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson’s shot two weeks ago and the 17-year-old with Pfizer’s, which is available to teens as young as 16.The 15-year-old is still waiting for her shot, though—a bit impatiently now.
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Policing in U.S. Was Built on Racism & Should Be Put on Trial
A Minnesota jury’s conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. “We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case,” Muhammad says.
Black Visions Collective: We Need to Abolish the Police & End Militarized Occupations of Our Cities
The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities.
Guilty on All Counts: Derek Chauvin Verdict Triggers Relief & Determination to Keep Fighting
A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last year. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in two months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the most serious charge, second-degree murder. He is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black man.
States have a new Covid problem: Too much vaccine
Millions of Americans are still getting shots each day — but, in a jarring twist after months of scarcity, too many slots remain open as skeptics hold out.
Yeah, I Bought Some Dogecoin Today
If the financial and crypto markets are going to be so dumb, count me in.
The Hard-Fought Award for the Most Irresponsible Vaccine Coverage Goes To …
Just impressively terrible.
Are Unemployment Benefits Really Making It Impossible for Restaurants to Hire?
Weighing the evidence in a late-pandemic mystery.
FDA orders J&J contractor Emergent to stop vaccine production during inspection
News of the FDA’s order is the latest roadblock toward J&J’s efforts to ramp up production of its vaccine.
Half of U.S. adults now have received at least 1 Covid shot
Almost 84 million adults have been fully vaccinated.
‘I doubt very seriously if they just cancel’ paused J&J vaccine, Fauci says
He said he expects the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will return, though possibly with restrictions or warnings.
Data gap threatens to complicate Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause
The current investigation could intensify concerns by state officials that the public will lose overall confidence in Covid-19 vaccines.
Help! I Regained My Smell After COVID. Now I Can’t Stand My Fiancé’s Scent.
It’s lessening my attraction to him.
My Girlfriend Just Gave Me an “Honest” Evaluation of Our Sex Life. Yikes!
I’m crumbling under the pressure!
Dear Care and Feeding: My Superstrong Beast of a Toddler Won’t Let Me Brush His Teeth!
Parenting advice on strong toddlers, grandparent introductions, and gift-giving worries.
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.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
Rep. Val Demings Goes Off On Jim Jordan In Fiery Shouting Match About Policing
“Did I strike a nerve?” the Florida Democrat, who’s a former police officer, shouted at her Republican colleague.
News Roundup: Chauvin guilty; India in crisis; Republicans still blocking insurrection probe
In the news today: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, on trial for the murder of George Floyd, was found guilty on all counts. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage—as do new climate dangers for Texas’ power grid. And the proposed independent probe of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection continue to be blocked by the same Republican lawmakers whose disinformation and conspiracy theories led to the violence in the first place.
Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges against him, Judge Peter Cahill announced on Tuesday. Chauvin was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter after kneeling on the neck of 46-year-old George Floyd for more than nine minutes on May 25, 2020, outside of the Cup Foods corner store in Minneapolis.
Cheers could be heard outside the courthouse seconds after the verdict was read.
Happy 4/20! Almost 7 in 10 Americans want cannabis legalized
The problem with having Christmas every day, as the folks behind these weird Christmas-themed attractions surely know by now, is that when Dec. 25 actually comes around, Christmas doesn’t seem that special.
That’s a bit how I feel on 4/20. What am I gonna do? Get higher? I’m not sure that’s possible. Outside of putting myself on a hash oil IV drip, I don’t know how I could cram any more THC into my body.