Pat yourself on the back if you sized Donald Trump up in two minutes, like a normal person. You could have instead been Ethan Nordean, who wasted years of his life and squandered his precious freedom for a guy who’d likely feed him to alligators—or a marginally more reptilian creature such as Roger Stone—if he ever showed up at one of his golf courses.
The Florida congressman said he is being accused of paying for “naughty favors” and claimed the allegations are similar to legislators who write earmarks into bills. He’s very wrong.
“Covid-19 has shown a bright light on our own society’s failings,” he said during a commencement address.
“His continued attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law is dangerous and we all have an obligation to stand up against that,” she said.
Carter, a Republican from Ooltewah in eastern Tennessee, announced his cancer diagnosis in November.
“If you are vaccinated, we are saying you are safe,” Rochelle Walensky said.
In a strip mall just off Houston’s NASA Parkway is a restaurant called Frenchie’s Italian Cuisine. You wouldn’t know it from the unassuming beige storefront, but inside, Frenchie’s looks like a museum. The walls are covered in framed pictures of smiling astronauts, in their blue jumpsuits and puffy spacesuits, holding up bubble helmets and model spaceships.
Editor’s Note: Read Morgan Thomas’s new short story, “Bump.” “Bump” is a new short story by Morgan Thomas. To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic, Thomas and Amy Weiss-Meyer, a deputy managing editor at the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.Amy Weiss-Meyer: “Bump” begins with a confrontation of sorts, addressed “to those who accuse me of immoderate desire.
Electricity was late and expensive
Coming to Appalachia
Knoxville especially so
Twice a month the coal
Man would come to fill the cellar
For warmth and sometimes food
And what I loved most was the fireplace
Where Grandmother and Grandpapa would sit
Near to tell stories but
Oak Ridge came for the war
Or maybe the war came for Oak Ridge
And atomic energy replaced coal
And the cellar became a home for mice
And maybe some insects that we never
Needed to bother since they didn’t bother usOne su
Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Morgan Thomas about their writing process. This story was published online on May 16, 2021.To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.
I don’t know what to say to him.
The aim is to help survivors who can’t shake symptoms months after infection, but some experts worry that marginalized groups could get left behind.
The White House’s reaction to unexpected jobs and price data has opened the administration up to GOP attacks.
Very few Americans are allowing themselves to feel anything about Afghanistan anymore. A triple bombing in Kabul left 80 people, many of them schoolgirls, dead last week. In photographs, you see the physical devastation of the bombing—a crater, twisted metal, gouged walls—but the more visceral devastation is in the faces of family members, the contorted, grief-stricken expressions of mothers and fathers at the gates of the school as they search for their daughters.
Parenting advice on only children, transgender kids, and COVID.
Checking in on the New York City mayoral race—and the regrettable candidates leading it.
A farcical tale of city planning.
Things are getting weird in the late-pandemic economy.
I want to leave, but he wouldn’t have any income.
The moves came a day after the CDC said it is safe for fully vaccinated people to go maskless in any type of group gathering.
Rochelle Walensky also said vaccinated parents and teachers “may want to continue wearing masks to model behavior” for unvaccinated children.
Exasperation among diplomats reflects global pressure on the U.S. to begin sharing some of its Covid-19 vaccines.
The announcement marks the first time the Biden administration has said it is safe for vaccinated people to remove masks in any kind of group gathering.
Gov. Mike DeWine said the lotteries would be paid from existing federal coronavirus relief funds.
Parenting advice on dog disagreements, video hangouts, and stepchild resentment.
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo on why whites—even progressives—are often angry, irrational, and hostile in discussing race.
Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says things should get better as people overcome fears related to the pandemic.
“There were elements of growth in the balance from what I can see and understand,” Carney said in a long response that didn’t directly answer the question.
