Biden shakes up vaccine strategy as he sets new goal
He’s aiming to vaccinate at least 70 percent of adults by July 4 as the pace of vaccinations has been slowing.
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I Just Left My Religion and Am Ready for Sex—but I Already Have a Problem
I can’t even think about it without gagging.
The Era of Mass Vaccinations Is Ending
At its peak, in late March, the mass-vaccination site at Nashville’s Music City Center was giving out 2,100 doses a day. It was all hands on deck: Local nurses, volunteers, FEMA employees, and even U.S. Forest Service EMTs were redeployed to help give COVID-19 shots. But last week, the number of daily doses dropped to less than 1,300—about 1,100 second doses and only 190 first doses.
“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Filmmaker Raoul Peck Explores Colonialism & Origins of White Supremacy
A new four-part documentary series, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” delves deeply into the legacy of European colonialism from the Americas to Africa. It has been described as an unflinching narrative of genocide and exploitation, beginning with the colonizing of Indigenous land that is now called the United States.
Help! My Friend Is in an Abusive Relationship With Her Dog.
I’m genuinely worried she is going to get severely or fatally injured.
Dear Care and Feeding: My In-Laws Want My Son to Call Them Names I Despise
Parenting advice on what to call relatives, diversity, and shared hobbies.
The 1980s Tear-Jerker That Helped My Mother and I Talk, Finally, About My Dad
An excerpt from Michael Koresky’s memoir about rewatching ’80s movies with his mom.
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.
Fear of the Rapture Consumed Everyone I Knew as an Evangelical Kid. It Took Me Years to See Exactly Why.
It’s hard to overstate how large the rapture looms for many evangelicals in America,
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.
FDA Reportedly Set To Approve Pfizer Vaccine For 12- To 15-Year-Olds
Millions of kids would be eligible for the vaccine under the shift, alleviating some fears before the next school year begins.
Right-Wing Pundit’s Attempt To Whitewash The Capitol Insurrection Backfires
Dinesh D’Souza claimed rioters weren’t rioters, using an image of one stealing property to make his argument.
Pharma-Backed Democrats Decline To Support COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver
A new letter to President Biden calling for a temporary patent waiver doesn’t have the signatures of Congress’s biggest recipients of pharmaceutical industry money.
News Roundup: ‘Herd immunity’ slips out of reach; Republican ultimatums; judge reprimands police
In today’s news: Experts now believe high levels of vaccine hesitancy will make it impossible to reach COVID-19 “herd immunity” through vaccinations. That means the virus—and whatever new variants arise as the virus continues to mutate—will now pose a public health threat indefinitely. And yes: Republicans did that. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gives an ultimatum to Biden.
‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye would like a word with anti-vaxxers
With over 100 million American adults fully vaccinated, the possibility of our country’s public health situation returning to a baseline of normality felt like it was within reach. Key word: was. Unfortunately, the same crew of people thwarting our progress toward normalcy are the same people who botched the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, continued to promote anti-science sentiments, and amplified the anti-vaxxer movement.
Watch memorial for Andrew Brown Jr. after deputies ‘recklessly’ shot and killed him
The day before the family and friends of slain father Andrew Brown Jr. paid their respects on Monday in a North Carolina museum, a journalist walked through the home Brown was shot just outside of. Brown’s neighbor Michael Gordon told journalist Hunter Walker that Brown’s car crashed into the crepe myrtle tree in his front yard.
Two dozen groups call on Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to support legalization for TPS holders
Dozens of groups, including organizations that advocate for Venezuelan immigrants, are calling on Florida Republicans Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to support legislation reintroduced to the Senate earlier this year that would put Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients onto a path to legalization and citizenship.
Proud Boys mark their public return with a threatening Oregon rally, and no police presence
When the Proud Boys and their far-right cohorts led the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, they did so largely operating under their longstanding belief that the police were on their side. This weekend, breaking their weeks of quiet amid a stream of post-Jan. 6 arrests, they held an armed “Second Amendment” rally in Salem, Oregon—without a whiff of police presence.
Hermit nation: Australia locks out its citizens in extreme new Covid policy
The Australian government announced it will jail and fine citizens attempting to return from India.
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.
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.