Today's Liberal News
“All We Can Save”: As Climate Disasters Wreck Our Planet, Women Leaders Are Key to Solving the Crisis
As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men overwhelmingly dominate the airwaves on climate coverage. We speak with co-editors of the new book “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays by 60 women at the forefront of the climate justice movement. “We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media,” says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab.
Billionaires Race to Privatize & Monopolize Space as Earth Burns & Workers Organize
As the world’s richest man flies his Blue Origin rocket into suborbital space, here on Earth calls are growing to tax the rich and let Amazon unionize. Billionaire Jeff Bezos has faced strong criticism after Tuesday’s flight, for which he thanked Amazon workers and customers who “paid for all of this.” Bezos traveled to the edge of space just days after another billionaire, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, took a similar trip on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft.
Help! I Accidentally Told the Bridal Group Chat That the Bride Is Out of Control.
Should I just bow out of the wedding?
Dear Ask a Teacher: My Daughter Is So Bored at School. Should She Skip a Grade?
Teacher advice on skipping grades, pre-K, and red-shirting.
Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers
Even though Covid hospitalizations and deaths are surging in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just barred counties, cities and school districts from requiring masks.
The pandemic drove women out of the workforce. Will they come back?
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
Is Oatly Really Eco-Friendly?
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
Republicans Have Taken a Brave Stand in Defense of Tax Cheats
Even the GOP senators who are supposed to be the sane ones.
My Daughter Stole $127,000 From My Son’s Wrongful Death Settlement
She left me $6,000. I’m now homeless.
The Child Tax Credit Is Blowing Up On TikTok
Thank Democrats for the hottest meme this side of Cannes.
Japanese prime minister says the world needs to see a safe Olympics
But he acknowledged Japan’s path through the pandemic toward the Olympics had gone “sometimes backward at times.
Poll: Unvaccinated Americans least concerned about Delta variant
Less that half of those who have not been vaccinated are worried about the contagious Covid variant.
My Date Pointed at a Warehouse and Said, “What If I Murdered You in There?” My Reaction Worries Me.
I’m questioning my own judgment.
Help! I’m Afraid of What Will Happen When My Daughter Gets a DNA Test.
She’d be in for a big surprise.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband Thinks I’m Impacting My Daughters’ Body Image…for the Worse
Parenting advice on body image, neighbors, and excessive gift-giving.
Fed’s Powell feels heat from all sides as inflation spikes
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
China says it is shocked by WHO plan for Covid origins study
National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumor.
China says it is shocked by WHO plan for Covid origins study
National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumor.
News Roundup: Pandemic surge; Pelosi blocks GOP move to sabotage Jan. 6 probe; plea bargains mount
In the news today: Not only is the pandemic not over, the nation is in the middle of a new pandemic surge. Wear your masks, and get vaccinated as soon as possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today rejected the appointment of two Republicans to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection after signals that both of them were appointed to obstruct, rather than assist, the probe.
Cartoon: Space, the final F.U.
Space billionaires are on a mission to entertain themselves, without regard for the pressing problems on Planet Earth.
The pandemic made it even harder than usual for this marginalized group to get affirming care
Safe, age-appropriate, and affordable gender-affirming medical care is crucial for transgender and nonbinary folks. Affirming care can be a number of things, ranging from a medical professional supporting the use of pronouns to prescribing hormonal treatments to surgery. Sometimes trial and error are involved to find the best fit, and sometimes people pause and restart treatment over the course of a lifetime. All of that is normal and valid.
Mask requirements can’t exempt the vaccinated, because the unvaccinated will simply cheat
On July 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued recommendations that surprised many Americans. In looking ahead to the upcoming school year, the agency recommended that “masks should be worn indoors by all individuals (age 2 and older) who are not fully vaccinated,” but did not call for mask use by staff or older students who were fully vaccinated.
Louisiana Republicans Fail To Override Veto On Anti-Trans Sports Bill
“This bill will not protect our girls,” a Democrat opposed to the legislation argued.
Facebook is getting Americans killed. Biden saying so isn’t likely an accident
I had somehow missed that some in the press have been trying to relight the pilot light on the whole “Biden gaffe” narrative after Biden theoretically accidentally noted that Facebook, in becoming a fountain of anti-vaccine, anti-safety conspiracy theories, was “killing people.
The Republicans Have Already Given Biden What He Needs
The much-ballyhooed bipartisan infrastructure agreement was always a shaky proposition. When President Joe Biden announced the accord last month—“We have a deal,” the beaming president proclaimed outside the White House, flanked by 10 beaming senators—all the negotiators had agreed to was an outline, a three-page sketch of how to spend $1.2 trillion on roads, bridges, rail, and broadband, and a list of “options” of how to pay for it.
Kevin McCarthy Says GOP Will Do Its Own, More Partisan Capitol Riot Probe
The Republican leader suggested his investigation won’t look at Donald Trump’s role in the attack.
I Can’t Figure Out How to Tell My Boyfriend the Truth About Why I Won’t Have Sex With Him
It’s a habit he picked up during COVID.