Welcome back!
… to school or work or a crushing sense of existential dread or whatever, everyone’s living their own life.
But most schools in most places are back in (some sort of) session, which affects pretty much everybody in one way or another.
Anti-maskers just won’t learn. Since the start of the pandemic, videos of anti-maskers resorting to violence when asked to wear a mask, licking items at grocery stores, and coughing on customers have circulated through social media.
While one would hope these incidents were becoming less common, given how far along in the pandemic we have come, they are not.
Afghanistan! Delta variant! Hurricanes! Wildfires! Chaos, chaos, chaos! Hie thee to thine lifeboats, fellow Americans! The good ship Biden is sinking!
The evidence? President Joe Biden’s approval ratings have now sunk to a roughly 45% average based on FiveThirtyEight’s latest aggregate of polls. As usual, the media is doing its news cycle tango, questioning Biden’s ability to push through his agenda in the face of these numbers.
In 1846, the Danish physician Peter Ludvig Panum traveled to the Faroe Islands in search of measles. The rocky archipelago, which sits some 200 miles north of Scotland, had been slammed with an outbreak, and Panum was dispatched by his government to investigate.
Things are different when you’re hot.
Palin slammed the New York Democrat’s criticisms of Gov. Greg Abbott and his defense of Texas’ abortion law.
“I have so much information in there – it’s nuts,” Kellye SoRelle told HuffPost about her iPhone.
The Atlantic has hired Roye Segal to lead Atlantic Re:think, Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Hayley Romer announced today. Segal joins The Atlantic to head the award-winning creative studio, which is part of Atlantic Brand Partners, an interdisciplinary collective within The Atlantic that offers brands an integrated experience across platforms. Segal was most recently at NBCUniversal, where he was senior creative director.
#NoPawsLeftBehind. Last Tuesday, I glanced at the “What’s happening” sidebar on Twitter and saw that nearly 32,000 people were tweeting about this topic; therefore, it was “trending.” A description of the trend, presented just beneath the hashtag, explained that it was “commemorating the service dogs left behind following the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.”Clicking through the hashtag, I found a slightly more irritating story.
The agency has deferred its decision on the largest vaping companies, including Juul.
The law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that passed in response to protests against racial injustice violates the First Amendment, the judge said.
Large companies will have to require workers to either get vaccinated or show a negative COVID-19 test result at least weekly.
“You had 11-, 12-year-olds being like, ‘Aymann, what is jihad? And why does your family want to kill my family?
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he will pursue legal action against one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S.
My granddaughters are no longer speaking to each other.
The six-part plan includes an order that all executive branch federal workers get vaccinated.
The plan — developed by DHHS — largely backs Democrats’ ongoing efforts to lower drug prices.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is confronting the toughest challenge Democrats may face in next year’s midterm election—and guiding his party toward a possible solution as the Republican-driven recall against him enters its final days.One key reason the president’s party historically fares so poorly in midterm elections is that its supporters turn out at lower rates than voters of the party not in the White House.
In his new book, Yale historian Samuel Moyn explores whether the push to make U.S. wars more “humane” by banning torture and limiting civilian casualties has helped fuel more military interventions around the world. He looks in detail at the role of President Obama in expanding the use of drones even as he received the Nobel Peace Prize. “What happened after 2001 is that, in the midst of an extremely brutal war on terror, a new kind of war emerged.
As this week marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., we look at a new five-part documentary series on Netflix about the attacks and the response from the United States, both at home and abroad. “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror” features a wide range of interviews with survivors of the attacks, U.S.
Doing a solid for voters who won’t notice you helped them for years.
My husband thinks it’s just boys being boys. I’m not so sure.
Teacher advice on class assignments, food insecurity, and boredom at school.
We could use the one next door, but his family ruins the experience.
“Infotainment” systems are increasingly flashy and distracting—and the auto industry is just getting started.
The lefty case against Jerome Powell almost makes sense. Almost.
The agency is reviewing millions of applications from e-cigarette makers, and must decide by Sept. 9 whether their products are “appropriate for the protection of public health.
Politicians have joined anxious parents and some public health groups in calling on federal regulators to accelerate their process for authorizing shots for the youngest Americans.
This caught me by surprise.
