There is only one reason Republican lawmakers are blocking any investigations into the January 6 insurrection they can block: because it was a Republican insurrection to begin with. It was premised on hoaxes spread by the lawmakers themselves. The “march” to the Capitol was orchestrated, and in advance, by Donald Trump himself and by top allies.
“Some of the evidence was right in front of our faces,” said the former secretary of state, who served as national security adviser during the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Trump’s former campaign manager appeared to dismiss reports that Trump expects to be reinstalled this summer.
The West Virginia senator’s unwillingness to back legislation without Republican support could jeopardize Democrats’ ability to pass key bills.
2021 is on pace to be the worst year for U.S. voter suppression laws since 2011, and activists are worried that Democrats aren’t responding aggressively enough.
Photo illustrations by Miki LoweW. S. Merwin was a man of many callings. He was an incredibly prolific poet—he won the Pulitzer Prize twice, along with nearly every other major literary award. He also dedicated his life to environmentalism: After moving to a barren pineapple plantation in Hawaii in 1977, he painstakingly restored it to its natural state, growing back hundreds of species of palm.
Deep in the densely forested foothills of southern Oregon, near the town of Butte Falls, Lanette and Steve Martin lived with their son and his family—until last year, when a wildfire chased them away from their home. As embers the size of charcoal briquettes landed on their front deck, the retired couple and their family jumped into their cars, leaving behind five chickens and a cat.
Parenting advice on anxiety, wild toddlers, and single motherhood.
“I’m here to tell you that the United States will not let you stand alone,” Tammy Duckworth said.
She’s delusional, but it’s straining my relationship with my son.
A growing movement wants to scrap bus and subway fares. That’s not what riders need most.
He wants me to move in with him. I’m suspicious of his motives—but it sure would be nice not to have to worry about rent.
Get ready for HQ2, uh, part two.
Years ago, I pleaded with him to get health insurance. Now I’m being ostracized due to his carelessness.
Conservatives are amplifying attacks on Fauci after the release of his emails. And they’re fundraising off of it too.
New Jersey has been operating under a public health emergency for almost all of the pandemic.
The move comes after months of internal debate and external pressure.
Some spare Covid-19 vaccine doses — including tens of thousands of Johnson & Johnson shots — are set to expire at the end of this month.
Parenting advice on popularity contests, cosleeping, and a bullied little sister.
He failed to mention one thing in particular.
I’m torn between taking their job away or subjecting them to racist abuse.
Teachers on summer school, summer homework, and divorce.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
The study adds fuel to an intense national debate about what is behind a suspected worker shortage and what policy changes are needed to accelerate Americans’ return to work as the pandemic subsides.
The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in gender-based violence, job losses in female-dominated industries, greater parenting duties for mothers, and other pressures that primarily fall on women around the world. These effects amount to a kind of “disaster patriarchy” in which “men exploit a crisis to reassert control and dominance and rapidly erase the hard-earned rights of women,” says V, the artist and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler.
As Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to negotiate over an infrastructure bill, President Biden is reportedly considering dropping his demand to roll back the 2017 Trump tax cuts — which primarily benefited corporations and the richest people in the country — in order to gain support for infrastructure spending of at least $1 trillion.
