In the news today: Senate Republicans aren’t budging from their vow to shut down the federal government—again—rather than voting with Democrats to keep it open. With the fall of Roe v. Wade in Texas, women in that state are now facing hours-long drives to out-of-state clinics.
Until this week, the most outrageous thing I’ve seen in my 29 years as a political junkie was the religious right’s four-year campaign to bully the American people into bowing down to Donald Trump. In hindsight, I got a foreshadowing of this when I spent the first six months of my freshman year at the University of North Carolina in the belly of the religious right beast.
by Bareerah Zafar
This story was originally published at Prism.
Pro-choice organizations across Texas are working to provide residents with access to free emergency contraception and other reproductive health needs in the wake of the state’s near-total ban on abortion.
We’re experiencing a global pandemic. Teachers, staff, and students who are back to in-person classrooms are trying their best to return to a degree of normal life and education while still being mindful of a potentially deadly virus. We know that countless parents have already protested mask requirements, and some, in fact, have even become physically violent over them.
The far-right lawmaker’s tweet drew ridicule from Democrats and Twitter critics.
Addressing Trump Jr., Navarro slams him as someone with “no talent or skill or significant accomplishment who’s living off your father’s fame, name and fortune.
When I see the Caribbean mentioned in U.S. headlines, it is most often brought up in passing in weather forecasts about storms forming in the Atlantic Ocean and heading towards the mainland U.S., or when there is a natural disaster, like the recent earthquake in Haiti, or last spring’s eruption of the La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The switch comes amid a growing sense of burnout and fatigue within the CDC after almost two years of fighting Covid-19.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. For some of us, booster shots have finally arrived. But they’ve charted quite a meandering course to get here. First, last month, President Joe Biden announced that most Americans would be able to nab third doses of mRNA vaccines eight months after their second shots.
Did these two really date, or was this just the strangest dream we’ve ever had?
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem met with her daughter and top state officials last year in the governor’s office while her daughter was pursuing a real estate certification.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. For years now, artificial intelligence has been hailed as both a savior and a destroyer. The technology really can make our lives easier, letting us summon our phones with a “Hey, Siri” and (more importantly) assisting doctors on the operating table.
I am blinded by my worry that something bad is going to happen.
Congress has only a few days to act before the federal government shuts down and begins furloughing workers in the middle of a pandemic.
For many people over the past year and a half, every social event—hugging a relative, eating with a friend—has become a complex and sometimes-awkward dance. They’ve determined their safety needs and wants, then verbalized them to others. They’ve had to ask permission for more things, after considering other people’s comfort and boundaries. Whether people have realized it or not, everyday pandemic-era interactions have frequently turned into consent conversations.
In the final days of Germany’s election campaign, the center-left Social Democrats appeared to focus their final message to voters on one idea: respect. The message was plastered across the country on vibrant red posters and featured in the closing campaign speech of the party’s candidate for chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who pledged that a Germany under his leadership would recognize the contributions of everyone in society, regardless of their professional or social merit.
Danielle Del Plato
In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb. His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a cosmocracy.Mark Zuckerberg, unlike Einstein, did not dream up Facebook out of a sense of moral duty, or a zeal for world peace.
We speak with Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was held at the military prison for 14 years without charge, an ordeal he details in his new memoir, “Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo.” Adayfi was 18 when he left his home in Yemen to do research in Afghanistan, where he was kidnapped by Afghan warlords, then sold to the CIA after the 9/11 attacks.
Parenting advice on single motherhood, dogs, and deciding to have children.
Meditation tips and yoga breaks aren’t helping.
Key aspects of the economy are doing better than before the pandemic, which supporters say shows how government spending can help.
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.
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 is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact,” Rochelle Walensky said.
People who have heard of LuLaRoe have usually come across it for one of two reasons.