I Confessed All My Secret Fantasies, and Now My Girlfriend Is Horrified
She’s literally bursting into tears.
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Elliot Page’s Vulnerability Is a Gift to the Trans, Nonbinary Community
He’s come out before. But this time is different.
“The Dead Are Arising”: New Biography on Malcolm X’s Childhood, Killing & Secret Meeting with KKK
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne.
The New Goldman Sachs? BlackRock Sees Clout Growing as Biden Taps Two Execs to Top Economic Posts
For his incoming economic team, President-elect Joe Biden has picked several people associated with the investment giant BlackRock, which has been called “the fourth branch of government.” This includes his choice of Brian Deese, a former adviser to Barack Obama, to be his director of the National Economic Council. Deese was the global head of sustainable investing for BlackRock, which is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $7 trillion in its portfolio.
Where Are the Progressives? Briahna Joy Gray on Neera Tanden & Other Biden Picks for Economic Team
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic advisers this week, setting the tone for his administration’s recovery plan, including Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress think tank, as head of the Office of Management and Budget.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
Help! I Keep Looking for Excuses Not to Hang Out With My Husband.
He wants us to spend our little free time together, but I’d rather be on my own.
Dear Care and Feeding: My MIL Is Way Too Strict With My Perfectly Normal Kid
Parenting advice on unfair discipline, bad words, and college choices.
How Wells Fargo Became Synonymous With Scandal
In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill.
Janet Yellen Makes History
Slate Money talks Janet Yellen, Simon & Schuster, and United Way Worldwide.
How Klancy Miller Designs Recipes for Single People
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
Biden’s other health crisis: A resurgent drug epidemic
Joe Biden will emphasize treatment and prevention, not law enforcement, in addressing a drug epidemic that’s only grown more dire during the pandemic.
Governments around the world weigh thorny question: Who gets the vaccine first?
Different countries are coming up with different answers to that question.
Trump officials hold first ‘Operation Warp Speed’ briefing for Biden
The focus of the initial meeting was on Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics and distribution, said one person familiar with the agenda.
Azar says states will decide who gets first Covid-19 shots
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
AstraZeneca to seek FDA authorization for vaccine based on foreign trial data
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Deese to be Biden’s top White House economic adviser
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
Biden unveils diverse economic team as challenges to economy grow
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
U.S. consumer confidence tumbles as virus spreads
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
Trump strips Biden’s options to boost the economy
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
The Lame-Duck Executioner: Trump Prepares to Execute Five Prisoners in Closing Days of Presidency
We look at the unprecedented five federal executions President Trump’s Department of Justice has scheduled before Inauguration Day, starting with Brandon Bernard on International Human Rights Day and ending with Dustin Higgs on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Four of the people set to die are Black men, and the other is Lisa Montgomery, a severely mentally ill white woman who faced a lifetime of sexual abuse and would be the first woman executed in nearly 70 years.
Tuesday Night Owls: Don’t assume there’s nothing bad left to discover about Donald Trump
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Timothy Noah at The Atlantic writes—The Trump You’ve Yet to Meet. Just because we know bad things about the 45th president, don’t assume that there’s nothing bad left to find out.
How well do we know Donald Trump? Pretty well, it would seem. Nobody has ever accused the outgoing president of possessing a complex personality.
Arizona governor appeared to send Trump to voicemail as he certified election results on live TV
On Monday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed and certified the Grand Canyon state’s election results, sending president-elect 11 electoral points. This was [looks at notes] the third time Joe Biden won Arizona this year! Donald Trump and his cabal of treasonous coup promoters, continue to say that not only has the Democratic Party rigged all of the elections that are predominantly controlled by Republican officials, Republican officials are now complicit in treason.
Which of These Terrifying Real-Life Rat Scenarios Is Actually Worse?
You can learn a lot about a person based on how they want to be assaulted with rats.
Chef donates million-dollar winnings to take care of restaurant workers as coronavirus roars
From the earliest days of COVID-19 response, Americans have worried about how certain industries would fare amid shutdowns and economy dips.
A loss for science, Puerto Rico, America, and the world as massive Arecibo telescope collapses
Just two weeks ago, the National Science Foundation (NSF) made the sad decision to permanently close the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, after damage to the 1,000-foot-wide instrument rendered it unstable to even inspect, much less operate.
It’s OK If Democrats Fold on Stimulus Checks
There’s a good-enough relief proposal with support from some Republicans. Dems should seize it.
Trump Reportedly Considering Pardons For 3 Of His Children And Rudy Giuliani
The pardons could benefit Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, as well as son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The National Review calls Trump’s post-election behavior by its name: disgraceful and dishonest
It isn’t normal for an American political party to cling to a defeated, one-term president. But by all indications, since the Nov. 3 election, nearly the entirety of the Republican Party appears to have collectively committed itself, for the foreseeable future, to the fortunes of a demonstrably unstable and mercurial reality TV show personality—one whose political acumen over the course of the past four years has been questionable at best.