The $7,000 Covid test: Why states are stepping in to shield consumers
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
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.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation official on Monday.
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Amid calls to “defund the police,” Donald Trump and most on the right have come out decidedly against transferring funds from law enforcement to social programs. They’re apparently fine with defunding everything else, though.
Education, environmental regulation and financial policing are just fine to defund of course.
There is a unique quality to this day-by-day pandemic sadness, this quarantine depression that with the protests is edging into despair. I’m not referring to those adults who seemed, in the early, pre-protest days, to be inexplicably thriving. “I’ve never been so busy!” one friend, a computer consultant, giddily enthused.
“War is about money. Money is about war. Every time I walk out my front door, I see cops patrolling my neighborhood like it’s some kind of police state. I can feel just how much I ain’t worth.” So says Stormin’ Norman (played by Chadwick Boseman), the mythic figure at the center of Spike Lee’s bombastic war epic Da 5 Bloods (out on Netflix today).
It’s remarkable that more than 150 years after the Civil War ended, Republicans are still fighting a rearguard action.
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Senate chairman vows fight over Confederacy issue
Inhofe plans to water down language requiring name change for bases honoring Confederate generals
Oklahoma Republican James M.
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Well, not yet, we’re not. But soon enough! And to be honest, you’d probably prefer this fictionalized version of what’s actually going on at 9 AM ET, if you know what I mean. And if you listened to yesterday’s show, you do know.
I’ve always thought that he was hiding things from me.
I’ve always thought that he was hiding things from me.
In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center called out Reddit as home to “the most violently racist” content on the internet, citing a constellation of antiblack forums, or subreddits, that had adopted the name “the Chimpire” and racked up tens of thousands of members before they were taken down that year. Reddit’s content policy prohibits inciting violence, as well as bullying and harassment, but it has never been very specific about where the lines are drawn.
David Dee Delgado; John Lamparski / Getty; Paul Spella / The AtlanticThe clash between police and protesters that, once and for all, seemed to sever Bill de Blasio from the city that twice elected him mayor occurred on a Brooklyn street corner just over a mile from where he used to live.
In December 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. interrupted himself during a speech on desegregation to discuss an event on the other side of the world: the prodemocracy uprising then being quashed in Hungary. “Our minds leap the mighty Atlantic,” he told the National Committee for Rural Schools, because we are “concerned about the Hungarians as they confront the desperate situation that they stand amid everyday.
Parenting advice on stepchildren challenges, pregnancy news, and abusive marriages.
Parenting advice on stepchildren challenges, pregnancy news, and abusive marriages.
“None of this is beautiful. End this ugly presidency,” ends the montage released by a new progressive PAC.
The CNN host slammed the president as a “relic” for denying racism.
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.
Think about how to help the person you’re trying to network with, rather than helping yourself.
State officials, reluctant to damage reopening economies, contend they are better equipped for a new wave of cases.
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.