Both Georgia business leaders and top Republican officials in the state are opposing proposed legislation to restrict voting rights after the GOP suffered a well-earned triple loss in state Senate runoffs as well as the presidential election.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to another discussion of 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.
A Texas mother is reportedly facing threats after she went public about allegations her son was bullied for more than a year, targeted because of his race, and tricked into drinking urine at a sleepover. Summer Smith told NBC DFW she allowed her 13-year-old Black son, a student at Haggard Middle School, to attend the sleepover in mid-February without knowing his bullies, former football teammates, would be there.
The $1.9 trillion stimulus package dramatically expands tax credits for families, bolsters unemployment benefits and reduces taxes on student loan debt.
He says I can’t know I don’t like it unless I try it.
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
“To pull back now, prematurely, would be ill-advised,” Anthony Fauci said.
Special medical planes dispatched patients from the Paris area to less-saturated regions over the weekend.
We come across a ridge and hear
a cowbell in the cove beyond,
a tinkle sweetening the air
with vague rubato as the breeze
erases tones and then the notes
resume like echoes from the past
or from a cave inside the cliff,
a still, calm voice in dialect
and keeping its own company,
both out of time and long as time,
both here and from a higher sphere,
as if the voice of history
were intimate as memory.
Advice about parenting and education.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann is anxious about President Joe Biden’s soul. The two men are in some ways similar: cradle Catholics born in the 1940s who witnessed John F. Kennedy become America’s first Catholic president. Both found a natural home in the Democratic Party—in Naumann’s midwestern family, asking Catholics if they were Democrats was a redundancy. Naumann became a priest and Biden became a politician, but their paths really diverged over the issue of abortion.
Katie Martin
This article was published online on March 14, 2021.Last spring, early in the pandemic, the host of a radio food program called to ask whether I thought the lockdown would catapult women back to the 1950s. That sure looked likely: Families were home demanding three meals a day, and most of that food was coming from their own kitchens. I started wondering whether the pandemic would succeed where years of cajoling on the part of cookbook writers had failed.
Last month, a public-school district that serves mostly elementary and middle-school students in Evanston, Illinois, held its third annual Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—using a curriculum, created in collaboration with Black Lives Matter activists and the local teachers’ union, that introduces children as young as 4 and 5 to some of America’s most complex and controversial subjects.
Parenting advice on racism, hair color, and adoption.
Pro-vax culture might be cheesy, but it will absolutely save lives.
The rich flee. The poor have nowhere to go. And there is important work to do in the aftermath.
It isn’t dystopian. It’s creative reuse.
He wouldn’t nuke it. But his ideas might help neutralize it.
This will appreciably improve the lives of Americans—and position the administration to do even more.
The former coronavirus coordinator’s new firm is seeking FDA clearance to market its tech as a coronavirus fighter.
Businesses warn the policy could create confusion and bring hefty new costs for employers.
Few others cast as long a shadow as Fauci — who over the past year has given America a crash course in epidemiology — especially with top health posts vacant.
As part of an address to the nation, the president announced the directive with the goal of getting the U.S. closer to normal by July 4.
The lack of detail has prompted questions and skepticism about how many of these shots will reach their intended recipients.
The Old Navy Fit & Flare Cami Mini Dress is now $24, or 25 percent off.
Parenting advice on familial alcoholism, bullying intervention, and baby registries.
I spend hours, days thinking about it.
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
