Miami Beach Mayor Rips Ron DeSantis As ‘Pied Piper’ Of COVID-19, Leading State ‘Off A Cliff’
Mayor Dan Gelber went after the GOP governor as his state tallies the highest daily number of cases of the entire pandemic.
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Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign: What if the government actually encouraged voting?
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While Democrats find themselves stalled by their own in the U.S.
GOP Rep. Paul Gosar’s Siblings Tell Him To Resign: ‘Have You No Sense Of Decency?’
The far-right lawmaker’s brothers and sister said in a blistering op-ed that he betrayed his family and his country.
Kevin McCarthy Makes Sick Joke About Hitting Pelosi If He’s Ever Speaker Of The House
“I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down,” he told laughing GOP donors.
This immigrant police officer has proven to be more of an American than any of the Jan. 6 terrorists
It’s hard to overstate the body blow delivered to the entire right-wing project in the form of the four battle-scarred police officers who testified about their brutal experiences combating the mob of insurrectionists who Donald Trump unleashed against this country’s institutions on Jan. 6, 2021.
What I Heard in the White House Basement
One phone call changed my life.On Thursday, July 25, 2019, I was seated at the table in one of the two Situation Rooms in the basement of the West Wing. The bigger room is famous from movies and TV shows, but this room is smaller, more typically businesslike: a long wooden table with 10 chairs, maybe a dozen more chairs against wood-paneled walls, and a massive TV screen. This was the room where President Barack Obama and his team watched a feed of the Osama bin Laden raid.
Utility companies want everyone to believe the climate crisis caught them completely by surprise
There needs to be a word. A word that combines frustrating, terrifying, and infuriating. A word for a story that contains information that lets you know that the people who are not just riding on the bus, but steering it toward a cliff, have absolutely no plans for what comes next even as the front wheels leave the ground.
This article from The New York Times starts off describing a specific incident that’s frightening enough, but also strangely heartening.
In 2001, a Mysterious Invention Became a Viral Sensation—Then Went Down in Flames. I’ve Always Wondered: Was It All My Fault?
This was an entirely new kind of media frenzy—the birth of virality as we now know it.
Don’t Let Anyone Normalize January 6
While he was president of the United States, Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election of 2020, first by fraud, then by violence. His efforts were defeated in great part because of the integrity and courage of state-level Republican officials.Half a year has now passed since supporters of the president stormed Congress in an effort to coerce Vice President Mike Pence to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election.
Frustration As Biden, Congress Allow Eviction Ban To Expire
Millions of Americans face being forced from their homes with the midnight Saturday expiration of a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic.
Fauci: ‘I don’t think we’re going to see lockdowns’
Fauci also warned, however, that “things are going to get worse” as the Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.
A Crimson Tide of Debt
Weeks into his freshman year at the Marion Military Institute, a public two-year college in Alabama, Thomas was bored. The campus, in the sleepy, hard-luck town of Marion, lacked the glitzy amenities of modern-day universities. To escape the institute’s starchy military uniforms and rigid schedule, Thomas would jump in his truck on weekends and head to Tuscaloosa, home of the University of Alabama.
The Day the Space Station Lurched
Mission control in Houston first noticed it Thursday morning.The International Space Station was drifting. The station is always moving, of course, in a looping trajectory around Earth. But this, what mission control was seeing in the latest data, was unexpected, and unnerving. On Thursday morning, the space station was suddenly and mysteriously deviating from its course.
Stillwater Isn’t a Typical True-Crime Drama
Stillwater’s premise is simple: What if you were Amanda Knox’s father? This Matt Damon–starring project from the director Tom McCarthy is only loosely based on reality, but the dilemma facing roughneck Oklahoma dad Bill Baker (played by Damon) has the same sensational hook: His daughter is imprisoned in Europe after being found guilty of murdering her roommate in a splashy trial.
Help! I Didn’t Get a Job Because I Look Too Much Like a Dead Man.
As you can imagine, I’ve been in a real state.
Dear Care and Feeding: A Chasm Is Growing Between My Teen and Me. What Can I Do to Close It?
Parenting advice on racial differences, being nonbinary, and family names.
A Genius Plan to Improve Amtrak
What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress.
The Architect of Japan’s Olympic Stadium Thinks It Looks Just as Good Empty
It resembles a giant planter plopped in the middle of Tokyo. That’s on purpose.
You Don’t Care About the Infrastructure Bill, Which Is Why It Might Pass
The boring-Congress theory of getting things done.
My Parents Disowned My Brother After He Came Out. Do I Have to Split My Inheritance With Him?
He could use the money. But so could I.
CDC under fire for decision to limit tracking of Covid-19 cases in vaccinated people
The agency’s decision to limit its reporting of breakthrough cases has prompted wide variation in how states keep tabs on them.
CDC releases data behind latest mask guidelines
The hotly anticipated study helped convince the agency to revise its guidance on mask-wearing earlier this week.
‘Sellout’: Anti-vax conservatives come for DeSantis
The GOP governor is urging people to get vaccinated as Florida’s Covid infections spike. But some in DeSantis’ base are openly questioning him.
Government leaders to their workers: Get vaccinated or get tested
California, as well as much of the rest of the country, is on the brink of a fourth surge driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.
The Atlantic Daily: The Delta Whiplash Is Here
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.The Delta whiplash is here. A leaked CDC report, along with some new data released by the agency, put this week’s updated mask rules in context: This variant is more worrisome than previously thought.America is not back to square one.
Dear Care and Feeding: Our Teen Just Discovered Income Inequality and Won’t Stop Lecturing Us About Privilege
Parenting advice on privilege lectures, name appropriation, and nanny interference.
My Wife and I Had Sex With Our Friend One Night. No One Told Me What Would Happen After.
I’m not sure of protocol here.
Help! My Husband Won’t Speak to Me if I Don’t Pay a “Tithe.”
I get that I need to contribute to the finances, but this feels unfair.