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Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
Bring on Trump’s Half-Baked Executive Orders
Two of the president’s ideas are useless, and none will rescue the economy. But some could actually help.
We’re Officially Living Through a Drunken-Square-Root Recovery
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
What Democrats Have to Do to Save the Postal Service in Time for the Election
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
Poll: Voters much more likely to trust family, Fauci than Trump on vaccine
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump signs order aimed at boosting rural health care, telehealth
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Vaccine project contract raises transparency questions
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
Why That Falwell Jr. Yacht Photo Was the Final Straw
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
The Roving Evangelical Preacher Who Travels From One Site of Racial Unrest to Another
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.
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Trump’s economic comeback is becoming a slowdown and likely a stall-out
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
Landmark Fed business rescue struggles amid economy’s woes
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
Coronavirus’ lost generation
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
“The World’s Most Dangerous Man”: Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak,” says Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, a clinical psychologist and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood.
“The Beginning of Our End”: On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.
Cartoon: the protest pundit
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Trump Using COVID-19 As A Cover To Gut Social Security And Medicare, Critics Charge
Americans were looking for “relief,” instead the president promised to defund Social Security and Medicare, said a Florida lawmaker.
3 of the 4 ‘executive orders’ Trump signed weren’t actually executive orders
If you didn’t know, Donald Trump is golfing and hanging out with rich people in New Jersey this weekend, so of course, high on flattery, he’s holding media events. Saturday’s press conference took Trump away from the links for less than half an hour, ending abruptly when a CBS News reporter challenged the impeached president on one of his favorite falsehoods.
A blueprint for an ultra-partisan, progressive Biden presidency that keeps the Democrats in charge
MIT’s emeritus professor Noam Chomsky once described the Republican Party as “the most dangerous organization in human history.” Saturday’s issue of The New York Times confirms it, as one story offers a glimpse of how dismal this moment in time is for millions of Americans whose lives are now hanging by a slender thread, thanks to the deliberate action (or in this case inaction) of Senate Republicans.
‘Yo Semite’ T-Shirts Sell Bigly At Jewish Museum After Trump Gaffe
Trump’s embarrassing Yosemite blooper pays off for National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
Black workers are hurt most as Congress doesn’t extend unemployment, this week in the war on workers
One mostly unintended—definitely on the Republican side—aspect of the $600 in added unemployment benefits is that it reduced racial disparities. But that means that one aspect of the $600 expiring is that those same racial disparities have come roaring back. Why? Because, for one thing “Black workers disproportionately live in states with the lowest benefit levels and the highest barriers to receiving them,” The New York Times reports.
College football players pressured by the NCAA, schools, to play despite the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some ugly aspects about the inherent social disparities that many Americans simply tolerated—until the intrusion of a deadly, equal-opportunity virus seeped into virtually every corner of American life, making those disparities so obvious that ignoring them has become impossible.
College football is no exception.