For anyone who has ever visited the Navajo Nation—a sprawling 27,000 square mile territory that spreads across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico—some of the pictures being sent back from Mars may look … a little familiar. That’s especially true of the area around Jezero Crater where the Perseverance rover made its astounding landing in February.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was reprimanded for mockingly sporting a Hitler mustache at the New Jersey Naval Weapons Station where he was a security contractor.
Workers attempting to unionize at Tate’s Bake Shop are getting hit with an all-too-common, and totally vile, union-busting message: They say they’re being threatened with deportation.
Yes, Tate’s—now owned by Mondelez International—hired an anti-union consultant, who apparently looked at the company’s many undocumented workers and went for the threat that would scare them the most.
You have to hand it to MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell. When life hands him lemons, he eats them so fast they become deadly choking hazards. His latest nonsense? He’s launching a new social media platform to compete with YouTube and Twitter, which for some reason no longer allow videos and tweets that could lead to the attempted violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
Lindell is already being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.
The Vermont senator slammed Major League Baseball for cutting 40 minor league teams.
Photographs by Tine PoppeThis article was published online on March 13, 2021.When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.
Editor’s Note: Read Paul Yoon’s new short story, “Person of Korea.” “Person of Korea” is a new short story by Paul Yoon. To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic, Yoon and Oliver Munday, the design director of the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Paul Yoon about his writing process. This story was published online on March 13, 2021.He waits three weeks for his father to respond. During that time, whenever he checks the mail, the dog follows him. She eyes the birds on the telephone wires. Then the migrant workers in the fields.One day, the payphone near the mailboxes rings. He hurries to the booth.
Illustration by Oliver Munday; Bernard Gotfryd / Hulton Archive; Bettman; Bob Peterson / The Life Images Collection / Getty
This article was published online on March 13, 2021.
I’m plagued with nausea, vomiting, and most of all regret.
Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural—public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it—and the system can be fixed structurally: by creating a state-level office whose job it is to defend public defenders.
A Black Lives Matter sign on the lawn, and Blue Lives Matter marchers in the neighborhood.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert set “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert off laughing with his succinct answer.
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.
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.
I spend hours, days thinking about it.
If you think this aid is not “for you,” you’re wrong.
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.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
“I mean, Shaq has a SPAC. What could go wrong?” one economist says of the euphoria rippling through Wall Street and raising a new round of worries.
Only businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be able to apply for aid through the massive Paycheck Protection Program.
