AstraZeneca to seek FDA authorization for vaccine based on foreign trial data
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
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A Fantasy-Football League Unafraid to Commit to the Bit
Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.This week she talks with five representatives of a 12-person fantasy-football league called Raccoon Nation. Their commitment to the league has led to an elaborate infrastructure of regulations and statistics, a trophy for the winners, punishments for the losers, and even merch.
The Books Briefing: How to Tell the Story of a Family
The poet Marianne Moore had a deeply close—perhaps too close—relationship with her mother, Mary. This idiosyncratic bond intrigued Moore’s contemporaries and her biographer Linda Leavell, who trains her eye on it in Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore.
A Horror Movie Where Wealth Is the Demon
In The Nest, a family moves into an English mansion in the countryside filled with opulent rooms, creaky staircases, and secret passages. The setup is familiar for a horror film: A happy couple buys a mysterious property and discovers, upon arrival, that something is terribly wrong with the house. The movie, directed by Sean Durkin, opens with appropriate portentousness, a discordant piano score clanging over the title card.
The One Thing Every Dog Owner and Runner Should Buy on Black Friday
These visibility vests will keep you and your pup safe in the dark.
What to Get People Who Love Exercise
Perfect gifts for the runner, biker, lifter, or yogi in your life.
Help! My 5-Year-Old Refuses to Fold Laundry for Me.
She does it for her dad, but when I try the same tactics, she does nothing.
What Are the Rules for Sleepovers When Your Teen Is Bisexual?
Parenting advice on bisexual sleepover rules, puberty guidance, and standardized testing.
U.S. consumer confidence tumbles as virus spreads
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
Trump strips Biden’s options to boost the economy
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
What the Yellen choice means for Biden and the economy
Biden’s pick for Treasury will give him a close partner, steeped in knowledge of the Fed, who can navigate the wishes of progressive Democrats and the sensitivities of financial markets.
Biden’s big challenge: A growing racial wealth gap
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
The hangover awaiting Biden: Deep wounds from Covid-19
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends
In this special rebroadcast of a Democracy Now! exclusive documentary, we break the media blockade and go to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco’s violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation.
Bree Newsome & Prof. Eddie Glaude: The Black Lives Matter Movement Helped the Democrats Defeat Trump
As President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris prepare to take power, we continue to look at the growing debate over the direction of the Democratic Party. House Majority Whip James Clyburn recently criticized calls to “defund the police” and argued the phrase hurt Democratic congressional candidates.
Juan González: Mainstream Media Has Missed the Real Story About Latinx Voter Turnout
About 160 million voters cast ballots in this election, setting a new record, and President-elect Joe Biden’s lead in the popular vote has jumped to over 6 million. Much of the increased turnout was powered by people of color, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election.
As COVID Devastates Native Communities, Indigenous Voters Played Key Role in Defeating Trump
As COVID-19 rampages through the U.S., we look at how the rapid spread of the disease is affecting Native American communities, which have already faced disproportionate infection and death rates throughout the pandemic. We speak to Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Obama for Native American affairs. We also speak with Protect the Sacred founder Allie Young of the Navajo Nation.
Indigenous Groups Vow to Keep Resisting as Construction Is Approved for Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
A massive fight is brewing in Minnesota against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit for the project this week. After years of resistance, pipeline construction is now set to begin by the end of the month despite the concerns of Indigenous communities, who say it would violate tribal sovereignty and contaminate the land and water.
Saturday Night Owls: Sen. Murphy calls on Biden to review ties with Saudi Arabia over women’s rights
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Juan Cole at Informed Consent writes—Hyper-Patriarchal Saudi Arabia equates mild feminism with terrorism, as Sen.
Rich Trump allies want a new ‘Fox News’ competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry
The notion of Donald Trump “creating” a new “news network,” as his allies keep vaguely threatening, is a pipe dream. It’s not going to happen. It would require enormous amounts of money he doesn’t have, and it would require work. If the so-called Trump administration has taught us anything, it is that Donald Trump cannot stand doing work. He likes people praising him, and he likes golf.
Biden’s plans to return to nuclear deal with Tehran could be nixed by assassination of scientist
In an August interview, Jake Sullivan—deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and an aide to then-Vice President Joe Biden who is now Biden’s pick for his national security adviser—hinted that rejoining the Iran Nuclear Agreement would be a priority for the new administration’s first 100 days in office.
In Another Legal Blow To Trump, Pa. Supreme Court Tosses Suit Challenging Mail-In Ballots
Pennsylvania’s highest court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Rep. Mike Kelly and other Republicans who’d questioned the legitimacy of the state’s election results.
Cindy McCain Is Reportedly Biden’s Top Pick To Be Ambassador To The U.K.
The job is “hers if she wants it,” an insider told the London Times.
Scotland becomes first country to make period products free; U.S. taxes them like luxury items
Scotland just became the first country in the world to pass legislation making feminine menstrual hygiene products free to “anyone who needs them.” The BBC reports that the legislation—Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill—which was first introduced by Labor MSP Monica Lennon in April of 2019, passed unanimously in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.
Lennon has been working on the movement to end “period poverty” for years now.
Kamala Harris Gets A Big Laugh Out Of Another Trump Run: ‘Please’
Harris is not worried about a possible Trump run in 2024 as she speaks up for small businesses at a D.C. holiday market.
12 times Trump really did say that awful, racist thing you thought had to be fake news
President Donald Trump has truly been a president for racists and white supremacists, often sparking violent reactions and liberating this group of what is arguably the country’s most hateful people. Just this summer, more than 360 tracked counterprotests surfaced in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, with 40 of them, or almost 12%, ending in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project nonprofit’s U.S. Crisis Monitor.
With Inaction By Washington, States Scramble To Offer Virus Aid
Elected officials are spending the last of a spring federal COVID relief package as an end-of-year deadline approaches.
Distributing The Coronavirus Vaccine Will Require Planning — And A Lot More Money
The challenges will be as much logistical as they’ll be scientific.
Biden’s other health crisis: A resurgent drug epidemic
Joe Biden will emphasize treatment and prevention, not law enforcement, in addressing a drug epidemic that’s only grown more dire during the pandemic.