It’s that season: the season when you’re supposed to be counting your blessings, thinking of the things for which you’re thankful, and generally being full of peace and goodwill to all. Thinking about 2020 makes that a particularly surreal activity. It could make your brain hurt.
Trying to get all serious about this just made me exhausted.
In a fiery dissent, the justice said the court’s decision to block COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings “will only exacerbate the nation’s suffering.
“Haircuts today are the worst in the world.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Recently, over the course of just one week, the Houston Health Department received more than 110,000 lab reports of COVID-19 test results. In a city of 2.3 million people, “it’s quite a high volume,” says Beau J. Mitts, the department’s bureau chief.
As President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris prepare to take power, we continue to look at the growing debate over the direction of the Democratic Party. House Majority Whip James Clyburn recently criticized calls to “defund the police” and argued the phrase hurt Democratic congressional candidates.
About 160 million voters cast ballots in this election, setting a new record, and President-elect Joe Biden’s lead in the popular vote has jumped to over 6 million. Much of the increased turnout was powered by people of color, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection . City health officials on Wednesday released a report estimating that one in 145 people in Los Angeles County—population 10 million—are infected with the coronavirus. A week ago, the report says, that metric was 1 in 250 people.
As COVID-19 rampages through the U.S., we look at how the rapid spread of the disease is affecting Native American communities, which have already faced disproportionate infection and death rates throughout the pandemic. We speak to Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Obama for Native American affairs. We also speak with Protect the Sacred founder Allie Young of the Navajo Nation.
Three years ago, the Washington Football Team hosted its first-ever Thanksgiving Day game. The franchise had played—and lost—on the holiday many times before. But the 2017 game wasn’t notable just because the team, then known as the Redskins, actually won. That afternoon, a small group of Native American activists gathered outside FedEx Field, the Maryland arena where Washington plays, to educate D.C.
College football is now the epitome of the way dysfunction becomes normalized in America. Fans of the sport woke up to the news Saturday morning that the Clemson–Florida State game was postponed because a Clemson offensive lineman had tested positive for the coronavirus the day before. The matchup was one of 18 games that had to be canceled or postponed last week because of COVID-19.
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
Sometimes it’s as simple as a yellow sweatshirt.
I’m not sure whether to say something.I’m not sure whether to say something.
What to expect, and what risks you’ll take, from the moment you enter the airport.
Slate Money talks Steve Mnuchin, Affirm, DoorDash and Airbnb.
The Treasury secretary is kicking the crutches out from under the economy before it’s ready.
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
Nancy Messonnier, who enraged the president with her public warning of “severe” Covid-19 consequences, is slated to reemerge as a key adviser.
“We are in a very serious situation, but we can do something about it,” said Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
Biden’s pick for Treasury will give him a close partner, steeped in knowledge of the Fed, who can navigate the wishes of progressive Democrats and the sensitivities of financial markets.
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
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.
At least 37 transgender and gender nonconforming people were violently killed in 2020, making it the deadliest year for trans and gender nonconforming people on record, according to a new Human Rights Campaign report. Of those killed, 22 were Black, and seven were Latinx. More than 200 trans and gender nonconforming people have lost their lives to violence since 2013, when HRC began recording and reporting violence toward trans people.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute writes in Principles for the relief and recovery phase of rebuilding the U.S. economy that “an overwhelmingly policy response” is need to address the shock of the coronavirus pandemic and recession.
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, a Democrat whose 1989 victory made him the first Black leader of America’s largest city, died Monday at the age of 93.
Dinkins, who was close to a number of influential Harlem politicos, including future Rep. Charlie Rangel, was elected to a single term in the Assembly in 1965 before redistricting cost him his seat.
The only thing more American holiday season than conservatives pretending that liberals want to destroy them, is telecommunication companies telling consumers that right around the holiday season they are going to raise the prices of their services for bullshit reasons and there’s nothing you can do about it.
