On Saturday Donald Trump announced, in a bizarre golf clubhouse speech to an audience of millionaires, a series of “executive orders” that he will (attempt to) undertake as substitute for negotiating new pandemic aid packages with Congress.
If Democrats don’t flip the Senate in November, we might as well just crown Sen. Mitch McConnell king of America, because he alone will control our country’s future. The progressive priorities we’ve waited to advance for years and the massive effort we’ll need to rectify the vast wrongs of the Trump years: All of this will die by McConnell’s scythe.
Trump wasn’t joking when he told South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem he wanted his face on Mount Rushmore, she said.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis can save lives, but patients seeking the medications face numerous obstacles.
By Larry Buhl, for Capital and Main
In 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada to prevent HIV in a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a potential life-saving game changer for people at risk of contracting the virus.
For those of you who were literally just born, let us explain a bit of history from the before-times of the Barack Obama presidency. During those years, Republicans, conservatives, and racists—but I repeat myself—were all absolutely certain that President Barack Obama’s executive orders on take-your-pick were “tyranny.
The creator stepped in “because of partisan bickering and divided government,” Navarro said on “Meet the Press.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Hundreds of frustrated voters were turned away from centers across Puerto Rico that never received ballots.
Alex Morse, the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, used his position of power for “sexual gain,” the College Democrats of Massachusetts allege.
In 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state in the United States. Today, more than 3 million residents live in the state’s diverse terrain, from the rugged Ozark mountains to the plains along the Mississippi River. Here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Arkansas and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
As president and chancellor of the country’s largest Christian university and the son of one of the founding fathers of the religious right, Jerry Falwell Jr. has come to serve as a stand-in for American evangelicals. But to those inside the Liberty University community, Falwell’s leading role has lately seemed more like a liability than an asset. On Friday, the executive committee of the school’s board announced that Falwell will take an indefinite leave of absence.
The House speaker, however, stopped short of saying whether Democrats would mount legal challenges against the measures.
Underlying ConditionsIn America, George Packer wrote, the coronavirus has revealed a sick and unequal society incapable of self-government (June).I shall chew on this article for several days. The taste is bitter. However, it should be swallowed and digested; hopefully its nutrients will be absorbed.Ian McHughMattapoisett, Mass.As I read this excellent article, I was struck by the clarity of the writer’s vision.
Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; Fox Searchlight Pictures; GettyThe child and the writer are born at the same moment, to the same mother, each to his separate destiny. The child’s is to see everything, feel everything, be everything, and live in the scraps and sparks of language by which he understands everything; the writer’s is to wait, and hide, and grow, until the day when he steps in—pen in hand—to take possession.
Photo illustration by Miki LoweYusef Komunyakaa’s love for poetry began with his grandparents. They were dedicated churchgoers, and he’s said that “the Old Testament informed the cadences of their speech.” Komunyakaa spent his childhood at home in Louisiana, reading and rereading the Bible—and listening to jazz and blues on the wooden radio in his mother’s living room.
Parenting advice on newborn visitation, the return to school, and college majors.
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
Two of the president’s ideas are useless, and none will rescue the economy. But some could actually help.
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.
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