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White House Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Hosted Large Wedding Despite COVID-19 Restrictions
About 70 people attended his daughter’s wedding. Many did not wear masks, multiple outlets reported.
Welsh Politicians Hit Back After Trump Criticizes Wales’ COVID-19 Lockdowns
“No country in the world is going to take public health lessons from President Trump,” said one political leader in Wales.
The Atlantic Daily: The Week in Politics
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.GETTY / THE ATLANTICIn a week beset by unthinkable political drama, the vice-presidential debate offered a wormhole back to 2012—to a different moment in American politics. Specifically, one wherein Donald Trump did not sit center stage.
Mitch McConnell Whacks White House Over Lax Coronavirus Protocols
The Kentucky Republican said the Trump administration is “paying the price” for not socially distancing and wearing masks.
‘I’m Aware of Everything That I Need to Do to Remove This Evil’
When Lin-Manuel Miranda started writing a musical about an ambitious, irresistible Caribbean-born striver who takes the New York political world by storm, he didn’t have to look far for a real-life model of relentlessness. “That’s Luis Miranda as much as it is Alexander Hamilton,” he explains in Siempre, Luis, a new documentary about his father’s journey from a Puerto Rican hill town to the centers of Democratic Party leadership on the mainland.
Abby Wambach’s Three Things You Should Always Ask Your Young Athlete After a Game
Parents, stop coaching your kids from the sideline. Instead, ask them what they learned from the game.
Kamala Harris Claims Her Power
Before last night’s vice-presidential debate, the hype, at least among Democrats, was that Kamala Harris was going to knock Mike Pence out. You might have thought it was 1988 again, and the debate was that year’s most anticipated prizefight, with the senator from California playing the role of Mike Tyson and the sitting vice president cast as Michael Spinks.Tyson knocked out Spinks in 91 seconds.
Health officials scrambling to produce Trump’s ‘last-minute’ drug cards by Election Day
As officials debate how to get Trump’s name on the cards, health officials warn of a taxpayer-funded boondoggle to bolster president’s flagging poll numbers.
Where Harris Succeeded and Pence Failed
Will this latest debate make a measurable difference in the outcome of the election? Probably not; vice-presidential debates rarely do. But something significant may have happened last night, and it involves what usually turns out to matter, if anything does, from televised debates. Namely, the parts of their personalities and identities each candidate purposefully or unintentionally conveyed.
Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression: Republicans Know They Can’t Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot
During Wednesday’s debate, Vice President Mike Pence refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Biden wins the election. Instead, he referenced the Trump administration’s legal efforts to restrict mail-in voting. Rev. William Barber says the Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.
Rev. William Barber: Millions Are Struggling. So Why Do the Debates Ignore Poverty?
Rev. William Barber says the 2020 election debates have steadfastly ignored the subject of poverty, even though it affected almost half the United States population before the COVID-19 pandemic and millions more people are struggling since then. “We have to stop saying that things were well before COVID,” Barber says. “The reality is, Wall Street was well.” Barber is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach.
The Greatest Failure in Presidential History: Kamala Harris Slams Trump/Pence’s Handling of COVID-19
Separated by two plates of plexiglass, Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris met Wednesday in the only vice-presidential debate of the campaign season. Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, repeatedly defended the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 212,000 and millions of people remain out of work.
Help! A Close Friend Shamed Me for My “Relationship” With My High School Coach.
Was I groomed or just reckless?
Ask a Teacher: I’ve Been Watching My Kid’s Teacher on Zoom, and I’m Horrified
She’s way too strict for a first grade teacher.
Why COVID Was the Final Straw for Brooks Brothers
Suddenly, no one needed a suit—or even pants—for work meetings.
Director Phil Alden Robinson on the Making of His Cult Classic Sneakers
“They saved the world, but it wasn’t enough.
The President Is Sick and So Is the Economic Recovery
As if there wasn’t enough troubling news on this Friday.
Fauci: There could be 300,000 to 400,000 Covid deaths unless precautions taken
He added that a vaccine likely won’t be widely available until next summer or fall.
HHS whistleblower Rick Bright resigns from government
Bright alleges that he was demoted because he opposed political pressure linked to an unproven Covid-19 treatment.
House Democrats seek to block funds for ‘defeat despair’ Covid ads
House Democrats will introduce a bill intended to limit the administration’s ability to spend federal funds on certain coronavirus-related advertisements before the election.
White House lifts block on FDA’s stricter vaccine requirements
The agency’s decision to hold vaccine developers to the stricter criteria will likely push any vaccine authorization beyond Election Day.
CDC says coronavirus is airborne, but weakens language from earlier warning
The updated guidance comes just days after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Why Trump lost his battle against the trade deficit
The monthly deficit in U.S. goods trade with all other countries set a record high in August at more than $83 billion.
Trump campaign looks to small victories on trade to win the farmer vote
His campaign is targeting swing state voters by highlighting specific trade deal wins.
Trump is fuzzy on tax policy as Biden goes all in
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Meet the College Senior Who Built a COVID Tracker After CDC Blocked from Tracing Trump’s Contacts
As the number of people in President Trump’s orbit who test positive for COVID-19 continues to grow, we meet a student journalist who is doing what the White House doesn’t want the CDC to do: tracing the contacts of people who may have infected or been infected by President Trump. Benjy Renton, a Middlebury College senior, helped develop a real-time tracking tool to monitor the growing number of people in President Trump’s circle who were exposed or infected with COVID-19.
Activist Who Lost Father to COVID Says Trump’s White House Photo Op Was Like “Sci-Fi Horror Film”
As the highest-profile coronavirus patient in the world returns to the White House while still infectious and a danger to others, we speak with activist Kristin Urquiza, whose father died from COVID-19 earlier this year. She says President Trump’s minimizing of the disease is a slap in the face to families who have lost loved ones. “I was appalled,” says Urquiza.
Without Trump Onstage, There Is No Chaos
In perhaps the most chaotic week of a chaotic presidency, what was most surprising about tonight’s vice-presidential debate was how oddly normal it felt.Five days ago, the president of the United States was hospitalized after contracting a virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans. There were legitimate questions about whether Donald Trump could execute the powers of his office.