We continue our conversation with medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, whose new book, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” tells the story of his efforts to fight Ebola in 2014 and how the history of slavery, colonialism and violence in West Africa exacerbated the outbreak. “Care for Ebola is not rocket science,” says Dr. Farmer, who notes that doctors know how to treat sick patients.
As the United States sets new records for COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations, we speak with one of the world’s leading experts on infectious diseases, Dr. Paul Farmer, who says the devastating death toll in the U.S. reflects decades of underinvestment in public health and centuries of social inequality. “All the social pathologies of our nation come to the fore during epidemics,” says Dr.
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
She could end up on the streets otherwise.
The majority leader wants to send Americans a big lump of coal.
There’s a good-enough relief proposal with support from some Republicans. Dems should seize it.
Janet Yellen is back. That’s good news for the economy.
In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill.
New Mexico’s governor is no longer the favorite to lead the department at the center of Biden’s pandemic response.
Joe Biden will emphasize treatment and prevention, not law enforcement, in addressing a drug epidemic that’s only grown more dire during the pandemic.
Different countries are coming up with different answers to that question.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne.
Aquarium dining in Singapore, the damaged Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, starlings over Rome, increasing COVID-19 cases worldwide, a drive-through Santa experience in Los Angeles, an aggressive woodpecker in New York, Christmas lights in in London, snow-making in Switzerland, and much more.
An investigation into an alleged bribery-for-pardons scheme reportedly scrutinized a lawyer for Jared Kushner and a top Trump campaign fundraiser.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
At The American Prospect, Alexander Salmon writes—Prosecuting Trump Is the Only Way to Heal the Nation. Letting him off the hook for multiple crimes would reinforce Trump’s own contempt for the rule of law:
Going out as it came in, the Trump campaign’s last days were ablaze with misconduct, corruption, and illegal activity with no regard for the law and no fear of consequence.
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide goes to Nevada, which once again backed the Democratic ticket in a tight race. You can find our complete data set here, which we’re updating continuously as the precinct-level election returns we need for our calculations become available.
A discussion about the struggle of making money as a creative during the pandemic.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared Wednesday in front of the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing on the handling of American taxpayer money during our current economic and public health crisis. Many Americans would like to know why Mnuchin is trying to sabotage the economy by cutting off the emergency lending programs and clawing back $455 billion into the General Fund.
Donald Trump has lost bigly. Since the day after the election Trump, along with his lawyer Rudolph Giuliani and a few other people who are really way out in Conspiracyville, have tried to spin a tale of massive voter fraud. The hope is that they can overturn millions of votes and, in so doing, successfully accomplish a coup d’etat of our democracy.
The solution to reaching Indigenous farm workers in the U.S. who are unable to fully access novel coronavirus pandemic information due to language barrier issues may start as simply as turning on the radio.
CNN reports that a pair of radio hosts in California have used their show to help educate Indigenous migrants who make up part of the state’s farmworkers about the pandemic. Radio Indígena 94.
The fundraising figure underscores the president’s fierce grip on the Republican Party, even after his loss to Joe Biden.
Officials said the attorney tried to register to vote in Georgia’s Senate run-off election and urged other Floridians to join him.
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Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. As expected, our picture of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in the past week is muddied by incomplete and delayed data, the result of the Thanksgiving holiday and long weekend.
