Since the police killing of George Floyd in May sparked a nationwide uprising against police brutality, armed white supremacists have taken to the streets of U.S. cities in response to Black Lives Matter protests. Organizing against systemic racism has been met with apparent attempts by the Trump administration to cover up white supremacist violence.
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001. The Costs of War Project at Brown University also found more than 800,000 people have been killed since U.S. forces began fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen, at a cost of $6.4 trillion to U.S. taxpayers.
We look at the history of clinical vaccine trials and exploitation of vulnerable people in the U.S. and India, which recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second most infections worldwide. Kaushik Sunder Rajan, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, says there is a documented history of “ethical lapses” and lack of accountability in vaccine studies in India.
Steve Sisolak lambasted the president for endangering lives and acting as though rules don’t apply to him.
In a “60 Minutes” interview, the veteran journalist was asked why he went against his reputation of avoiding personal political judgments.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
At The Atlantic, Adam Serwer writes—The New Reconstruction. The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy:
[…] In 1955, the images of a mutilated Emmett Till helped spark the civil-rights movement.
“Ronna’s right, it’s time to vote President Biden out of office and elect Trump to fix the mess of the last four years,” one critic cracked.
David Neiwert, Daily Kos writer and author of Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us, recently joined NPR’s Here & Now to discuss the violence at the protests in Portland, Oregon and help contextualize the clashes between far-right militia groups and protesters across the country.
Since protests for justice and against police brutality have taken place across the nation (and in many places, continue), we have seen a number of individual athletes and sports teams take a stand. In fact, we’ve seen entire leagues take a stand. One powerhouse who hasn’t gotten nearly enough media coverage is tennis player Naomi Osaka. Osaka won the 2020 U.S. Open on Saturday and earned her third Grand Slam title.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing 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. For years I’ve built this guide around questions that get submitted, hoping to help small candidates field questions.
During the first week of September, Magic City Equality temporarily flew the rainbow flag of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning community beneath the U.S. flag in front of Minot City Hall, in North Dakota. The action was accompanied by Mayor Shaun Sipma signing a proclamation that June would henceforth be considered Pride Month in Minot.
“That’s the way it has to be,” Trump said after U.S. marshals killed a man suspected in a deadly shooting in Portland, Oregon, last month.
The pharmaceutical industry and many conservative groups vehemently oppose the most favored nations plan.
Oregon is on fire. Throughout the state, tens of thousands of people have been forced to take refuge. They are sleeping in their cars, in a convention center, on the floors of packed prisons. Several towns have been destroyed. Cities have been evacuated. Hundreds of homes have burned. The suburbs of Portland are threatened, and the situation might get worse: Unusually strong, dry winds and very high temperatures make the wildfires hard to fight.
From plague times to the coronavirus, the history of our flawed ability to process mass casualty events.
The CNN host asked White House trade adviser Peter Navarro why the president misled the public on the coronavirus. It didn’t go well.
Washington State is home to more than 7.6 million residents, most living on the western side of the Cascade Mountains. I originally published these photos of Washington last year, dedicating them to my mother and father, who loved their home state, and who had passed away the month before. The warm reactions to that photo story were what inspired me to undertake this larger project, “Fifty,” presenting wide-ranging collections of images of each state in the U.S.
Tim LahanThe correct answer to the question “How are you?” is Not too bad.Why? Because it’s all-purpose. Whatever the circumstances, whatever the conditions, Not too bad will get you through. In good times it projects a decent pessimism, an Eeyore-ish reluctance to get carried away. On an average day it bespeaks a muddling-through modesty. And when things are rough, really rough, it becomes a heroic understatement.
This is the era of expecting the worst while hoping for the merely tolerable. Some might say that the worst is already happening—economic disaster and 190,000 dead from a pandemic—while the president and his surrogates insist, in a feat of self-delusion, that the “best is yet to come.
In August, the Senate Intelligence Committee reported in exhaustive detail how Russia sowed division in the United States and sought to meddle in the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump.
Advice on positive parenting, vegetarianism, and cannabis habits.
Two costumes, two time periods, one lovable comedic actor.
Will an unprecedented emergency finally heal the state’s factions?
They need to take automatic pay cuts whenever a recession—or a pandemic—hits.
Ryanair’s CEO has threatened to impose fees for toilet access, overweight passengers, even being able to sit while in flight. Customers kept coming back.
It wasn’t just because of a shortage of beer, hand sanitizer, yeast, and pasta.
The politically appointed HHS spokesperson and his team demanded and received the right to review CDC’s scientific reports to health professionals.
Francis Collins lamented that commonsense mitigation measures had become politicized.
A brief opportunity to bring down the caseload before cold weather sets in may be squandered.
About 20 percent of colleges plan to open exclusively or primarily in person, according to a tracker from Davidson College in North Carolina.