Anti-inflammatory drug may shorten Covid-19 recovery time
Eli Lilly said it planned to discuss with regulators the possible emergency use of baricitinib for hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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25 years wiped out in 25 weeks: Pandemic sets the world back decades
Progress on global health and the worldwide economy has regressed, Gates Foundation report finds.
Trump and Pence try a messaging reboot on economic recovery
After months of setbacks amid Covid-19, the White House used Labor Day to focus on worker resilience and tout pre-pandemic conditions.
‘A tale of 2 recessions’: As rich Americans get richer, the bottom half struggles
The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.
Trump’s rebound story meets mounting bankruptcies
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
“Trump Is Criminality Personified”: Rev. William Barber on Protecting the Vote & Mobilizing the Poor
With less than two months before November, the Poor People’s Campaign has launched a push to register tens of millions of poor and low-income voters, who could decide the fate of the election. “Voting is power unleashed,” says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach.
Trump Blames Biden, Who Isn’t President, For Not Instituting Mask Mandate
“To be clear: I am not currently president,” Biden wrote moments later. “But if you chip in now, we can change that.
Tuesday Night Owls. Study: Richest 1% has snatched $50 trillion from bottom 90% in past four decades
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week.
At CommonDreams, Brett Wilkins writes—’$2.5 Trillion Theft’: Study Shows Richest 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From Bottom 90% in Recent Decades:
New research published Monday found that the top 1% of U.S.
‘Let Me Finish My Question’: Voter Confronts Trump Over Efforts To Undermine Obamacare
The moment highlighted Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects those with preexisting conditions.
Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into John Bolton over his anti-Trump book
Donald Trump is good for literature. Actually … that’s overstating it. A lot. But Trump is certainly good for publishers, and for dramatic titles. In one-word titles alone, it’s possible to build a pretty decent description of Trump using Rage, Unhinged, Disloyal, Fear, Hoax. You certainly don’t have to go to Insane Clown President, but … that’s also not a bad description.
Senators Introduce Last-Minute, Bipartisan Bill To Prevent A Census Disaster
They want to give the Census Bureau more time to finish the 2020 count, which is being rushed and is leaving communities of color behind.
Utah anti-mask rally goes viral after attendees spout conspiracies and comparisons to George Floyd
As health experts continue to encourage mask-wearing across the country, some anti-maskers just won’t give up. They have been refusing to wear masks since the start of the pandemic, despite research supporting that masks significantly prevent the spread of COVID-19. In Utah, maskless demonstrators have crowded city sidewalks and school-related meetings to protest mask mandates in and out of schools.
Democrats roll out enhanced online voting portal to get out all the votes
Democrats, as usual, want to make sure that every eligible person is registered and able to vote in November’s general election, and they’ve beefed up their online tool, called I Will Vote, to make that simpler and safer for voters around the country. The site is also available in Spanish.
Trump Interview On Fox News Comes To An Awkward End
“Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy refuted Trump’s claim that he’ll be calling in to the show every week until Election Day.
The Trump administration is skipping out on the bill for mailing Trump-praising postcards
Since approximately forever, Republicans have been demanding we run the United States government “like a business,” and Donald Trump has been quick to embrace that advice.
Biden wants to restore Obamacare. He may have trouble.
Trump has steered the health care system right in ways that Biden could find hard to untangle, especially with an uncooperative Congress.
Trump Campaign Hiding Payments To Top Adviser Embroiled In Child Support Battle
Jason Miller has claimed he speaks to the president daily, yet filings do not show him receiving any money from the reelection campaign.
The Most Important Number for the West’s Hideous Fire Season
Updated at 7:07 p.m. ET on Sept. 15, 2020.To understand the ravenous wildfire season in the American West this year, boil some ravioli. Put the heat on high. After about 10 minutes, the pasta will go limp and start to break apart. Keep boiling. When the pot holds a shallow puddle of water and a pile of soggy debris, keep going. Don’t turn down the heat until the last bubbles of water sizzle and vanish.
The Atlantic Daily: Fires Don’t Care About Swing States
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.CreditBy the time President Trump flew West—and by the time his 2020 opponent, Joe Biden, gave his first speech on the matter—the fires had been burning for weeks.
A Paranoid Rant Says a Lot About Where Trumpism Is Headed
No matter how often he’s asked, Donald Trump can’t articulate what his second term as president would look like. He doesn’t need to, because Americans can see for themselves. It looks like Michael Caputo.Caputo is the top spokesperson at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is a job in which you’re supposed to shape the news, not make it. But Caputo has had a busy few days.
Released Today: The Atlantic’s THE AMERICAN CRISIS from Simon & Schuster
The past four years have been among the most turbulent in U.S. history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of nationwide protest against police violence. How did we get here?Today The Atlantic and Simon & Schuster release The American Crisis, an urgent look at a country in chaos, drawn from the pathbreaking recent work of The Atlantic’s journalists.
Life in the Wake of COVID-19
In April, José Collantes contracted the new coronavirus and quarantined himself in a hotel set up by the government in Santiago, Chile, away from his wife and young daughter. The 36-year-old Peruvian migrant showed only mild symptoms, and returned home in May, only to discover his wife, Silvia Cano, had also fallen ill. Silvia’s condition worsened quickly, and she was taken to a nearby hospital with pneumonia.
When Talking to Your Mother-in-Law Is a Minefield
Avoidance speech requires speakers to refrain from using certain words when addressing in-laws.
Pandemic Profiteering: Amazon Caught Price Gouging as Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soared to $200 Billion
The online giant Amazon has made an extraordinary amount of money during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people shelter at home and shop online. A new Public Citizen report documents how Amazon set prices for essential products during the crisis at levels that would violate price gouging laws in many states, and marked up some products by as much as 1,000%. “This is an ongoing thing. They are doing this currently.
Why the Kids Are Definitely Not All Right
Instead of trying to plan where you ultimately want to end up, focus on taking the next best step.
Colonization Made California a Tinderbox: Why Indigenous Land Stewardship Would Help Combat Climate Fires
We examine California’s history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes in California would regularly burn the landscape to steward the land, but colonization led to the suppression of these tactics and decades of misguided policy.
“Mass Voter Disenfranchisement”: GOP Ramps Up Assault on Voting Rights Across U.S. Ahead of Election
With just seven weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, the battle for the White House is increasingly being fought in courts across the country. From Wisconsin to Florida, Pennsylvania to Colorado, judges are making major rulings deciding who gets on the ballot, how a record number of mail-in ballots are handled and distributed, and who ultimately gets to vote on November 3.