The Reason Starbucks Is Closing 400 Stores
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
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.
We look at the story of peace activist Martin Gugino, who was hospitalized in critical condition after being pushed to the ground by a police officer in Buffalo last week — an attack captured on video that has been viewed millions of times. On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the 75-year-old activist on Twitter, suggesting he staged his fall and was “an ANTIFA provocateur,” echoing baseless claims from a segment on the far-right channel One America News Network.
Protests in defense of Black lives and calls to defund the police continue across the U.S., from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and New York. We speak with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, about the significance of this moment and the history of policing in the U.S.
A private funeral was held in Houston Tuesday for George Floyd, two weeks after a Minneapolis police officer killed him by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s death has sparked protests against police brutality and racism across the United States and around the world. We play excerpts from the funeral service and hear from Floyd’s family and dignitaries.
We go to Minneapolis, where the community has taken over a Sheraton hotel to provide shelter to more than 200 unhoused people amid protests and the pandemic. Now they face eviction. “Using hotels for emergency housing is an obvious answer,” says Rosemary Fister, community organizer. “They are largely vacant as we enter an economic depression in the midst of a global pandemic.
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.
Think about how to help the person you’re trying to network with, rather than helping yourself.
The president’s message was misleading to begin with.
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Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect—Georgia on my mind:
Almost everything that could go wrong with an election did in Tuesday’s Georgia primary election. Is this a harbinger of November? At the very least, it’s a wake-up call.
The state had ordered 30,000 new machines, and these machines are tricky to use and prone to malfunction.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has come under fire for information that has been seen as “fanciful or manipulated.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.“People finally see it. White people too,” George Floyd’s younger brother Philonise told the reporter Wesley Lowery. “My brother is going to change the world.
Pharmaceutical companies are using the media to tout treatments that are still under review.
Parenting advice on dog care vs. child care, quitting soccer, and race in preschool.
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.
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The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation official on Monday.
Despite the drop in the unemployment rate in May, many economists feel further aid is needed.
The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million as states continue to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen their economies and more than a dozen see a surge in new infections. “I worry that what we’ve seen so far is an undercount and what we’re seeing now is really just the beginning of another wave of infections spreading across the country,” says Dr.
MAYBE you’ll join me in the Tom the Dancing Bug for Justice Fundraiser. Make a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and you might win the original art for this week’s comic (BLM-I-am) or a custom-made Ruben Bolling illustration. Info here.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic’s film, White Noise, premieres on June 20 at the AFI Docs documentary film festival. Tickets are available , which focuses on the lives of three far-right figures: Mike Cernovich, a conspiracy theorist and a sex blogger turned media entrepreneur; Lauren Southern, an anti-feminist, anti-immigration YouTube star; and Richard Spencer, a white-power ideologue.[J.M.
Important Netroots Nation Update
We pretty much knew this was coming, but now it’s official: due to the coronavirus pandemic, the in-person convention scheduled for Denver won’t be happening. But the good news is, we’ll still be meeting virtually August 13-15 through the wonder of Tim Berners-Lee’s mysteriously magical invention called the world wide web.
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Nobody knows exactly what calamities Trump has in store for us this weekend. Maybe not even Trump. But this week, Thursday will be our last chance to get together with Greg Dworkin, gather up the clues and see if we can take a guess at what outrage comes next.
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