The headline of the report read like the title of a 1950s horror film: “The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City.” As America’s densest city became the epicenter of a national pandemic in March, New York’s subway system, which carried 5.5 million people on an average workday in 2019, emerged as the villain from central casting.
Camp Mishawaka was founded in 1910 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and its motto is “Safety, health, happiness.
In the fall of 2016, a journalist popularized a catchy binary to describe the bizarre behavior of Donald Trump and the effect he had on his rapturous followers.Supporters of the then–Republican presidential nominee, Salena Zito wrote, take Trump “seriously but not literally.” Meanwhile, his detractors, including most of the mainstream press, “take him literally but not seriously.
His work is funny and dark and very, very gay.
His work is funny and dark and very, very gay.
On May 25, George Floyd died, calling for his mother and gasping for breath. Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, killed him, forcing his knee onto Floyd’s neck until the man stopped moving, and for several minutes after that. The agonizing moments were captured on camera and shared with the world.When black husbands, fathers, sons, and neighbors fall victim to law enforcement, often black wives, daughters, mothers, and girlfriends pick up the pieces.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
After years of scandal and declining sales, the iconic brand is struggling to survive the coronavirus.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
The WHO Africa chief said that community transmission has begun in more than half of Africa’s 54 countries and “this is a serious sign.
How a collision between libertarianism, pandemic, and protests brought down the leader of the fitness juggernaut CrossFit.
It turns out creating “fun” takes a lot of work.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
The Fed chief will likely keep up his persistent advice to Congress to spend more to spur a meaningful recovery.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans’ liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors.
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
“The last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with,” Trump tweeted.
Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis shrugs off bad coronavirus news as cases rocket 35% in a single day.
Angry protesters gathered after Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by a police officer outside a Wendy’s Friday. The officer was fired late Saturday.
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Delilah Friedler at Mother Jones writes—What Will Replace the Minneapolis Police? The City’s Native American Community Has Some Ideas: (Full disclosure: I was a member of AIM for 16 years—MB.
