Few guardrails to keep people from cutting in line for Covid shots
As soon as more doses become available to wider categories of people, much of the immunization program will rely on the honor system.
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Dear Care and Feeding: My Mom Will Only Buy Me Clothes in Her Style
Parenting advice on style disagreements, father figures, and stomach troubles.
How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart
In a district where parents are epidemiologists and health policy experts, the meltdown happened one Zoom meeting at a time.
Now Streaming: Jamilah Lemieux With The Wire Alum Brandon Young
Tune in for a conversation about making music and not being afraid of self-promotion.
When I Boarded My Cargo Ship Last Year, I Could Never Have Imagined What COVID Would Bring
First, we were trapped for six months off the American coast—and then it got even darker.
Fed sees less severe recession this year but warns of tough winter
Officials said they expect the U.S. economy to shrink by 2.4 percent this year, a brighter forecast than they offered just three months ago.
Biden faces a massive boom ahead — or maybe another recession first
Vaccine euphoria is giving economic forecasters hope for a blockbuster 2021 and stretching stock market valuations to historic highs. It’s a setup that leaves no room for error.
Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools in Campaign of Terror
A shocking exposé in The Intercept reveals CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan have killed children as young as 8 years old in a series of night raids, many targeting madrassas, Islamic religious schools. In December 2018, one of the death squads attacked a madrassa in Wardak province, killing 12 boys, of whom the youngest was 9 years old.
The Pandemic Pipeline: Land & Water Defenders Continue Resistance to Enbridge Line 3 in Minnesota
Indigenous and environmental activists have been holding daily protests against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin, cutting through Indigenous territory and running under more than 200 streams.
Winona LaDuke: Deb Haaland’s Nomination for Interior Sec. Is “Important Step” for Native Americans
President-elect Joe Biden has picked New Mexico Congressmember Deb Haaland to become secretary of the interior. If confirmed, Haaland will be the first Native American to serve in a Cabinet position. Haaland’s nomination was backed by progressives, as well as more than 120 tribal leaders, who sent a letter to Biden last month urging him to select her for the post.
Evictions Are Violence: Millions Could Lose Homes Amid COVID Pandemic If Federal Moratorium Expires
Millions across the U.S. could be forced from their homes in the middle of the pandemic if Congress does not extend the federal eviction moratorium that is due to expire at the end of December. Congress is expected to push the moratorium back by one month, to January 31, in the $900 billion stimulus bill being debated in Washington, but such an extension would only be a temporary fix to a much wider problem. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that one-third of U.S.
Path Cleared For $900 Billion COVID Relief Package As Fed Compromise Is Reached
Sen. Pat Toomey drops requirement restricting future Federal Reserve powers.
Fight Over Fed Powers Stalls $900 Billion Pandemic Relief Plan
Lawmakers on both sides said a provision by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., that would curb emergency Federal Reserve powers was the sticking point.
Saturday Night Owls: Lame duck White House occupant eager to kill Californians with Medicaid cuts
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
32 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Robyn Pennacchia at Wonkette writes—Well This Is Just A Swell Time For Trump To Cut Healthcare Funds To California Over Abortion:
California is having a difficult time. It’s had more cases of COVID-19 than any other state in the country, and trails only New York and Texas in total deaths.
Married Texas teachers die holding hands. COVID-19 was their killer
Texas teachers Paul Blackwell and Rose Mary Blackwell were married for 30 years before they died holding each other’’s hands and that of their children Sunday. They contracted COVID-19 about a week before Thanksgiving and spent two weeks in intensive care with the virus, NBC News reported.
Trump Alarms Aides As He Mulls Naming QAnon Lawyer Sidney Powell As Special Counsel
Michael Flynn, pardoned by the president after confessing to felonies, urged Trump to declare martial law at “raucous” meeting where Powell was discussed.
This is the real reason Trump is so upset
On Tuesday, I went to my local “club” store to do some pre-holiday stocking up. As I walked through the airy, warehouse-like atmosphere, I passed a table piled up with Barack Obama’s recent memoir, A Promised Land. Grabbing a copy for half the $50 list price, I then proceeded to walk around the store and pick up a few more items.
This Oregon House district was the tightest in the 2016 presidential race, but not this time
The Beaver State backed Joe Biden 57-41, which was a bit larger than Hillary Clinton’s still convincing 52-41 showing from four years ago, and he improved on Clinton’s margin in all five congressional districts. Biden, who likely benefited from a decline in third party voting, also took the same four congressional districts Clinton won, and he made important gains in the competitive 4th District. (You can find a larger version of our map here.
Trump Shrugs Off Massive Kremlin Cyberattack As No Biggie, Baselessly Points To China
“Russia, Russia, Russia is the chant when anything happens,” Trump tweeted after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the attack.
Q&A: Bronx-based organizer Elisa Crespo on public education, housing, and sex workers’ rights
When Bronx-based community organizer Elisa Crespo advocates for housing accessibility, investment in public education, and job security, it’s personal. The 30-year-old is fueled by memories of growing up in New York City, witnessing her single mother fighting to sustain herself and her four children.
Bernie Sanders: Trump’s An ‘Authoritarian,’ But Also ‘A Reflection Of The Democratic Party’
The Vermont senator argued that 73 million still voted for Trump, and the Democratic Party had to transform itself to “bring working class people on board.
For Subscribers: Our Health and Science Writers Reflect on This Pandemic Year
This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching, just for you.
The timeline of how COVID-19 took hold in America can feel disorienting.
An Ode to Naps
Tim LahanThis article was published online on December 19, 2020.With the nap, it can go either way.It can succeed, which is to say it can perform its function of refreshment and revival. Twenty minutes or so of light, untroubled sleep, just when you need it. After lunch, perhaps; nature gently makes the suggestion. So you settle; you sink. But not too far. A delicious shallowness. You open your eyes.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Liberating Power of Music
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom begins with what seems at first like a harrowing journey. Netflix’s new adaptation of the late August Wilson’s play opens with a foreboding shot of the woods; the only noises are of crickets chirping, dogs barking, and young Black men gasping for air as they sprint through the trees. But then, we hear the music.
The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
Illustration by Trevor Davis; family photos courtesy of Arun Venugopal; other images by Federico Benocci / Eyeem / Getty; Tim Abramowitz / Getty; Michelle Marsan / ShutterstockThis article was published online on December 19, 2020.In 1978, several years after leaving India and coming to Texas, my parents decided to move out of our middle-class neighborhood in southwest Houston.
Help! My Son Keeps Stealing My Flavored Condoms.
He’s been trading them for his friends’ lunches at school.
Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not
The day I visited St. Thomas the Apostle School in Peckham, South London, a new shutdown was announced for Britain’s capital. But the comprehensive—a public high-school, in American parlance—was open. It was freezing: Doors were propped open for ventilation. Pupils chattered in the playground while wearing face coverings emblazoned with the school logo. For all that, the experience felt surprisingly normal.