Red state governors reject Biden on mask orders
The politicization of mask-wearing shows how difficult it will be for Joe Biden to build consensus around even basic public health strategies after he’s sworn in.
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Labs sound alarm on coronavirus testing capacity, supplies
The nation’s testing capacity has increased, but not fast enough to keep pace with the swarm of new cases.
Fauci and Biden team steer clear of each other — for now
Biden’s transition team must plan for a crisis response without access to essential information about the nation’s supply chains and testing supplies.
Moderna close to revealing first data on whether its vaccine works
The news comes days after Pfizer revealed that initial data suggest its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective.
Pandemic invades nursing homes again
Care facilities can’t keep the virus out as it spreads through communities.
Dear Care and Feeding: We Walked In on My Husband With a Man. Now Our Son Is Acting Homophobic.
Parenting advice on traumatic discoveries, hurtful beauty standards, and misplaced bitterness.
How One Georgia Theater Brought Delight to the Polls
When Dad’s Garage Theatre became a polling place, its staff decided to offer voters more than lines and ballots.
Prepare for Dry Winter Skin by Stocking Up on This Ointment, Now on Sale
A 3-pack of Aquaphor Healing Ointment is now 45 percent off.
Help! I’m in Love With My Ex-Husband’s Ex-Wife.
Not only is she beautiful—she’s brilliant and charming.
The hangover awaiting Biden: Deep wounds from Covid-19
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
China shapes a new U.S. economic era: The return of industrial policy
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
Fox survey finds 63 percent say country heading in wrong direction
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
Wall Street notches second-best Election Day of trading
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
GDP rebounds at record pace, but dark clouds reappear
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
Voting Activist Desmond Meade on Re-enfranchising People & Why “Ex-Felon” Is a Dehumanizing Label
In Florida, tens of thousands of newly eligible voters who were previously disenfranchised due to their criminal records turned out to the polls for the 2020 election. Amendment 4, a measure that in 2018 overturned a Jim Crow-era law aimed at keeping African Americans from voting, restored voting rights to people with nonviolent felonies who have completed their sentences and was hailed as the biggest win for voting rights in decades.
Can Trump Pardon Himself? Jane Mayer on Trump’s Desperate Bid to Stay in Power & Avoid Prosecution
President Trump has only made one brief public appearance since the election was called for Joe Biden, and his Twitter feed is filled with conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud, which state elections officials have repeatedly rejected.
“More of an Exorcism Than an Election”: Priya Gopal on What Biden Win Means for Britain & Ireland
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been one of President Trump’s closest international allies. How will he adapt to working with a Biden administration? Cambridge professor Priya Gopal says Johnson was clearly betting on a Trump reelection, especially amid Britain’s exit from the European Union. “I think they were certainly hoping that there would be a Trump victory,” says Gopal. “Brexit and Trump, as Trump quite correctly recognized, are very deeply in sync.
Trump Loss Decreases Chance of Iran War, But Many Iraqis Fear U.S. Policy Under Biden, Too
We look at how Joe Biden’s presidency will affect the U.S. footprint in the Middle East with Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who says Biden’s win is being viewed with “anxiety” by many Iraqis who are eager to avoid war between the U.S. and Iran. “Any conflict will take place on Iraqi soil,” says Abdul-Ahad. “There is not much optimism. There is anxiety towards Biden and his team in the way they deal with Iraq.
Saturday Night Owls: Coronavirus pandemic’s third wave generates enraging déjà vu
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Caroline Chen at ProPublica writes—The Enraging Déjà Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave. Health care workers don’t need patronizing praise. They need resources, federal support, and for us to stay healthy and out of their hospitals.
We need to win the Senate races in Georgia to stop Mitch McConnell from destroying the economy
It’s been 181 days since the House passed the $3 trillion HEROES Act, and 42 days since the House passed a compromise $2.2 trillion bill, both of which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up for a vote. The White House has gone AWOL, with the squatter in the Oval Office refusing to do anything beyond tweeting conspiracy theories about a rigged election, while his staff tries to figure out how to cover their asses and find new jobs.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Apologizes For His Fake Dead Man Voting Story
It was the wife of a late World War II veteran who voted, not him.
‘Million MAGA March’ draws thousands of extremists to D.C. claiming Trump won the election
As promised, thousands of hardcore Donald Trump supporters flooded downtown Washington, D.C., Saturday, for a “Million MAGA March,” falsely claiming he and not Joe Biden had won the presidential vote and demanding election officials “Stop the Steal.” Also as promised, Trump himself swung by to acknowledge what organizers had billed as “the largest Trump rally in U.S. history”—albeit briefly, from inside a slow-moving limousine.
Voters are ‘going to rise up one more time,’ Warnock predicts of Georgia Senate runoffs
Democrats face an uphill climb in Georgia’s Senate runoffs, but they are determined. After all, these races determine control of the Senate, and with it, whether President-elect Joe Biden can pass important laws, get his Cabinet confirmed, and get judges confirmed after four years of the Trump-McConnell judicial appointment conveyor belt.
Giuliani’s Wild Four Seasons Rant Reportedly Scared Top Attorneys From Election Fight
Giuliani’s slashing attack against Pennsylvania undermined months of strategic planning, sources told Politico.
Who will Biden choose as his labor secretary?
Speculation is flying and some aspirants are campaigning hard for the position of labor secretary. Names being mentioned frequently include Boston Mayor Mary Walsh, Rep. Andy Levin, AFL-CIO economist Bill Spriggs, and Julie Su, secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
Democrats Keep Winning The Popular Vote. That Worries Them.
What alarms many Democrats is a growing gap between their popular vote tallies and their political power.
GOP Leaders In 4 States Quash Dubious Trump Scheme On Electors
Lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have all said they won’t intervene in selecting electors.
Militia Groups, Conspiracy Theorists Rally In D.C. For Election Loser Donald Trump
President Donald Trump briefly waved to the crowd from his motorcade on his way to go golfing.
The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich
Illustration by Celina Pereira; photographs by Bettmann; Richard Lautens / Toronto Star / GettyIn 1952, in her native Baltimore, Adrienne Rich delivered her first public lecture, “Some Influences of Poetry Upon the Course of History.” She was 23. Over the next 59 years, Rich (1929–2012) would herself alter both poetry and history. As an author, a teacher, and an editor, she helped define American feminism.
The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors
One of the most crucial aspects of a functioning democracy is the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. Each of the following five letters, handwritten by an outgoing president and left in the Oval Office for the incoming president to find, reminds us of the sanctity of that fundamental practice. Reagan wrote to Bush. Bush wrote to Clinton. Clinton to Bush. Bush to Obama. And Obama to Trump. Regardless of party. Regardless of personal beliefs.