Two months into the pandemic, I gave in and tried Zoom dating. After a few days of chatting on OKCupid, I found myself across the screen from a perfectly nice match. It was one hour in hell: Trapped in a two-way-hostage video, I was hyperaware of everything that was missing—the smell of her perfume, how she moved through space, seeing the way she ordered a drink.If I was going to date, it had to be in person.
A few months after losing the White House, Republicans across the country have had a revelation: The Electoral College could use some improvements. The problem is that they have contradictory proposals for how to fix it—and contradictory arguments for why those proposals would help Americans pick their president. In Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Hampshire, GOP lawmakers want to award Electoral College votes by congressional district, just like Nebraska and Maine currently do.
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday morning that its results were based on an interim analysis of data before Feb. 17, more than a month ago.
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are in the final days of voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States. Ballots have been sent to nearly 6,000 workers, most of whom are Black, in one of the most closely watched union elections in decades.
As thousands of asylum seekers continue to wait in Mexico for a chance to enter the United States, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero says Mexican social media influencers connected to right-wing U.S. media outlets and political figures are whipping up “hysteria” about the southern border.
There are now over 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody as the number of people seeking asylum at the southern border shows no sign of slowing down. The Biden administration has sharpened its rhetoric in recent weeks, insisting that the “border is closed” and pushing Mexico and Guatemala to stem the flow of migrants. The Biden administration has also maintained one of the most controversial Trump policies, which allows the U.S.
Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com.Dear Abby and Brian,I don’t know if it has to do with remote learning or if this would have come up anyway, but my sixth grader, whom I’ll call “Tom,” immediately seems to forget everything he studies. He remembers non-school-related information fine.
I’m nervous (paranoid?) that I might get in trouble.
Democrats’ next big bill could include drug price negotiations and other industry curbs. Pharma may not be able to fight it off this time.
As the president once put it: Come on!
They’re considering restoring a tax deduction that once benefited the upper-middle class and rich. Bad idea.
Former NBA player Shawn Bradley was paralyzed after he was struck by a car.
A metaphor if you were looking for one.
Pressure mounts on Biden to approve telemedicine for the use of abortion pills.
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
Amid a national reckoning with structural racism and the dangers of white supremacy, author Heather McGhee’s new book details how racism in the United States hurts not just people of color but also white people. In “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” McGhee details how zero-sum thinking has worsened inequality and robbed people of all stripes of the public goods and support they need to thrive.
Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights.
Today, Israel will hold its fourth election in two years. This is a sign not of democracy on steroids, but instead of acute dysfunction, a semipermanent paralysis brought about, strangely, by the extreme stability of Israeli voting patterns: Neither the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, nor his various opponents have been able to change enough minds to build a durable parliamentary majority.
In today’s news, the House hears arguments for Washington, D.C., statehood, a House Republican announced he would no longer run for reelection after accusations of sexual assault, and some corporate promises to distance themselves from politicians who voted to overturn election results are turning out to have some big, big loopholes.
Voting rights are under attack by Republicans all across the country—especially in states like Georgia, where first-time Democratic voters were the margin of victory.
And now there is something you can do to help urge these voters to hang in there and remind them how crucial they were in the last election and what the stakes are going forward.
Some of the most deplorable of the deplorables have made it clear that they have dropped all pretense of democracy. That’s the only way to describe the talk among some rabidly pro-Trump “prophets” who have foretold that Trump will return to power.
One of the most outrageous examples of this comes from Johnny Enlow, a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia.
The full tranche of vaccine Johnson & Johnson committed in February to delivering may not be ready to ship until the third week of April.
How do you write a report about police tactics in response to protests over police racism without ever mentioning racism in your report?
There was just “insufficient training,” we’re told. The police “mishandled” the response. There were “major law enforcement agencies across the country” in total “disarray.”
That’s all it was. Really.
Despite a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, all of the administration’s Cabinet secretaries are in office.
In a surprise, Democratic Rep. Filemón Vela said Monday that he would not seek a sixth term in Texas’ 34th Congressional District, a heavily Latino seat that snapped hard to the right last year. Vela is the second Democratic House member to announce his retirement following Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who made her 2022 plans known earlier this month.
Trump’s campaign lawyer baselessly claimed that Dominion Voting Systems machines were rigged to weigh Biden votes more heavily than Trump votes.