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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
Order my new book, We Should Improve Society Somewhat, 184 pages of political cartoons on the last few years of our dystopian world!
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.
Trump Attempts To Sidestep Congress By Ordering 4 Points Of Coronavirus Relief
In a legally ambiguous move, the president turned to executive orders while negotiations between Democrats and Republicans remain at an impasse.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine again tests negative for coronavirus
The governor initially tested positive for the virus ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump.
Vote-By-Mail Worries Mount As Election Nears
Running a vote-by-mail election is surprisingly complicated and there’s a “leaky” pipeline for mail-in votes in many states, experts have warned.
Trump Seeks To Go It Alone After Coronavirus Stimulus Talks Break Down
A White House source revealed Donald Trump’s plans to sign an executive order involving economic relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
What to Do About William Faulkner
William Faulkner and his wife, Estelle, stand outside their home, in Oxford, Mississippi, in the spring of 1955. (Bettmann / Getty)In June 2005, Oprah Winfrey announced a surprising choice as the 55th selection for her influential book club. The coming months would be, she proclaimed, a “Summer of Faulkner,” focused on three of his novels—As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August, available in a special 1,100-page box set weighing in at two pounds.
Elena Ferrante’s Master Class on Deceit
Simone Noronha“To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves,” Elena Ferrante observed in a 2002 interview. “Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.
This Is Exactly What Susan Rice Feared
A few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice held a press briefing in her office to talk about the threats she saw on the horizon as Barack Obama’s presidency drew to a close. “What keeps you up at night? one reporter asked toward the end of the meeting. Her answer: a pandemic that spirals out of control.
America’s Authoritarian Governor
America has botched its coronavirus response in so, so many ways since the pandemic began. Even in a country that stands apart from the world for its horrific failures, there have been as many leadership bungles as there are states: Some failed to heed early warnings. Others refused to learn the lessons of outbreaks that came before theirs. Still others played politics instead of following science. And then there’s Georgia.Georgia’s response to the pandemic has not been going well.
Cancel College
Despite the continued spread of the coronavirus, many colleges around the country plan to welcome students back to campus over the coming weeks.Colleges want to reopen for good, nontrivial reasons. Administrators believe that most students learn better when they are physically assembled in the same place. And they know that the American college experience, at any rate, has long been about more than the classroom.
The Riches of This Land
Jim Tankersley visits Slate Money to talk about his book on America’s middle class.
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.
The Immersive Sounds of Audio Drama
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.