The heroes of Judd Apatow’s movies always have some growing up to do. The director’s early television work on comedies such as Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared dealt with the growing pains of adolescence. His filmmaking debut, 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin, focused on a grown man (played by Steve Carell) whose life was frozen in place because of his sexual inexperience.
He then claimed he was joking and that I had “never loved him.
The past two weeks have seen no shortage of enraging events—from the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white police officer to the continued police brutality during the ensuing protests across the country. But some have directed their outrage elsewhere: at public-health experts, whose choice to support the anti-racism demonstrations has been called the latest example of liberal hypocrisy.
Iconic images from the 1970s show long lines at gas stations across the United States—a group of Arab nations had imposed an oil embargo on the U.S. for supporting Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The price of oil nearly quadrupled, causing gas shortages that hit Americans badly, while leaving countries such as Saudi Arabia so rich that they dismantled their tax bureaucracies. In the following decades, Saudi citizens paid virtually no taxes.
He then claimed he was joking and that I had “never loved him.
“Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups?” asked Ohio state Sen. Steve Huffman.
The president is honoring those who fought “to preserve slavery and uphold white supremacy,” the Lincoln Project says.
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.
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has come under fire for information that has been seen as “fanciful or manipulated.
Pharmaceutical companies are using the media to tout treatments that are still under review.
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.
Despite the drop in the unemployment rate in May, many economists feel further aid is needed.
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.
The grim milestone comes as the outbreak spikes in numerous states.
The grim milestone comes as the outbreak spikes in numerous states.
The president called the demonstrators “anarchists” and said they “must be stooped.
Monuments honoring Confederate figures or Christopher Columbus have been vandalized, set on fire and thrown in lakes this week.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
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.
As the United States tries once again to reconcile its white supremacist systems and the toll it has taken on millions of American citizens, Las Vegas continues having bizarre Republican operatives saying wackadoo racist things. Meet Michele Fiore. Fiore is the Las Vegas mayor pro tem you might remember as the lawmaker who during previous BLM protests said she supported shooting protesters, and subsequently clarified she meant just the Black Lives Matters ones.
The Trump administration’s Stephen Miller-pushed public health order that has now resulted in the deportation of hundreds of migrant children back to possible danger is now facing its first court challenge, CNN reports. Advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have sued the administration over its attempt to deport a 16-year-old boy who fled Honduras after witnessing a gang murder, the report said.
On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the 22nd Air Force chief of staff. This is a historic moment as Brown becomes the first Black military service chief in the United States. He is only the second Black officer to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Donald Trump nominated Brown on March 2, but Republican Sen.
