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A moment of zen (or hours-long time suck) for your holiday
It’s that season: the season when you’re supposed to be counting your blessings, thinking of the things for which you’re thankful, and generally being full of peace and goodwill to all. Thinking about 2020 makes that a particularly surreal activity. It could make your brain hurt.
Trying to get all serious about this just made me exhausted.
Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court’s N.Y. Pandemic Ruling A ‘Deadly Game’
In a fiery dissent, the justice said the court’s decision to block COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings “will only exacerbate the nation’s suffering.
An 89-Year-Old Barber on What the Pandemic Has Done to Our Hair
“Haircuts today are the worst in the world.
Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Recently, over the course of just one week, the Houston Health Department received more than 110,000 lab reports of COVID-19 test results. In a city of 2.3 million people, “it’s quite a high volume,” says Beau J. Mitts, the department’s bureau chief.
Bree Newsome & Prof. Eddie Glaude: The Black Lives Matter Movement Helped the Democrats Defeat Trump
As President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris prepare to take power, we continue to look at the growing debate over the direction of the Democratic Party. House Majority Whip James Clyburn recently criticized calls to “defund the police” and argued the phrase hurt Democratic congressional candidates.
Juan González: Mainstream Media Has Missed the Real Story About Latinx Voter Turnout
About 160 million voters cast ballots in this election, setting a new record, and President-elect Joe Biden’s lead in the popular vote has jumped to over 6 million. Much of the increased turnout was powered by people of color, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election.
A Tragic Beginning to the Holiday Season
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection . City health officials on Wednesday released a report estimating that one in 145 people in Los Angeles County—population 10 million—are infected with the coronavirus. A week ago, the report says, that metric was 1 in 250 people.
As COVID Devastates Native Communities, Indigenous Voters Played Key Role in Defeating Trump
As COVID-19 rampages through the U.S., we look at how the rapid spread of the disease is affecting Native American communities, which have already faced disproportionate infection and death rates throughout the pandemic. We speak to Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Obama for Native American affairs. We also speak with Protect the Sacred founder Allie Young of the Navajo Nation.
When Your Hometown Team Gets a New Identity
Three years ago, the Washington Football Team hosted its first-ever Thanksgiving Day game. The franchise had played—and lost—on the holiday many times before. But the 2017 game wasn’t notable just because the team, then known as the Redskins, actually won. That afternoon, a small group of Native American activists gathered outside FedEx Field, the Maryland arena where Washington plays, to educate D.C.
Denial Isn’t Working Out for College Football
College football is now the epitome of the way dysfunction becomes normalized in America. Fans of the sport woke up to the news Saturday morning that the Clemson–Florida State game was postponed because a Clemson offensive lineman had tested positive for the coronavirus the day before. The matchup was one of 18 games that had to be canceled or postponed last week because of COVID-19.
How Klancy Miller Designs Recipes for Single People
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
It’s Hard to Be Grateful for 2020. But Here’s What We are Thankful For.
Sometimes it’s as simple as a yellow sweatshirt.
Help! My Colleague Undressed on a Work Call.
I’m not sure whether to say something.I’m not sure whether to say something.
So You’re Flying This Thanksgiving? Here’s Which Parts Are the Riskiest.
What to expect, and what risks you’ll take, from the moment you enter the airport.
The Steve Mnuchin and Jay Powell Breakup
Slate Money talks Steve Mnuchin, Affirm, DoorDash and Airbnb.
Steve Mnuchin Is Doing His Part to Sabotage the Biden Administration on His Way out the Door
The Treasury secretary is kicking the crutches out from under the economy before it’s ready.
Azar says states will decide who gets first Covid-19 shots
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
AstraZeneca to seek FDA authorization for vaccine based on foreign trial data
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
Biden to spotlight CDC officials shunned by Trump
Nancy Messonnier, who enraged the president with her public warning of “severe” Covid-19 consequences, is slated to reemerge as a key adviser.
Fauci: Vaccines are an incentive to ‘double down’ on precautions
“We are in a very serious situation, but we can do something about it,” said Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
U.S. consumer confidence tumbles as virus spreads
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
Trump strips Biden’s options to boost the economy
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
What the Yellen choice means for Biden and the economy
Biden’s pick for Treasury will give him a close partner, steeped in knowledge of the Fed, who can navigate the wishes of progressive Democrats and the sensitivities of financial markets.
Biden’s big challenge: A growing racial wealth gap
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
The hangover awaiting Biden: Deep wounds from Covid-19
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
As 2020 Sets Grim Record for Trans Killings, Advocates Call for Holistic & Uplifting Media Coverage
At least 37 transgender and gender nonconforming people were violently killed in 2020, making it the deadliest year for trans and gender nonconforming people on record, according to a new Human Rights Campaign report. Of those killed, 22 were Black, and seven were Latinx. More than 200 trans and gender nonconforming people have lost their lives to violence since 2013, when HRC began recording and reporting violence toward trans people.
Wednesday Night Owls: Principles for relief, recovery, and rebuilding the U.S. economy
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute writes in Principles for the relief and recovery phase of rebuilding the U.S. economy that “an overwhelmingly policy response” is need to address the shock of the coronavirus pandemic and recession.
David Dinkins, whose 1989 win made him New York City’s first Black mayor, dies at 93
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, a Democrat whose 1989 victory made him the first Black leader of America’s largest city, died Monday at the age of 93.
Dinkins, who was close to a number of influential Harlem politicos, including future Rep. Charlie Rangel, was elected to a single term in the Assembly in 1965 before redistricting cost him his seat.