‘On the precipice’: How the cratering economy became a second public health crisis
Recovery could take years, with the nation’s most vulnerable enduring the worst of it.
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Pennsylvania Republicans Put Election Nightmare Scenario In Motion
A proposal for a Republican-run committee to investigate the election could be the first step to handing the state’s electors to Trump.
Chris Wallace: ‘I’m Just Sad With The Way Last Night Turned Out’
“I’m disappointed for the country, because it could have been a much more useful evening than it turned out to be,” the Fox News host told The New York Times.
The Atlantic Daily: Why Can’t Trump Just Say It?
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.JULIO CORTEZ / APLast night, the president refused to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and militia groups. When pressed, he said that members of the far-right group the Proud Boys should “stand back, and stand by.
My Religious Wife and I Tried Something New in Bed—and Disaster Has Ensued
I think she liked it a little too much.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Child’s Adoptive Mother Is an Alt-Right, Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist
Parenting advice on adoptive parent politics, motherhood with image issues, and Grandma as teacher.
Trump’s Climate Self-Own
The painting style of Jackson Pollock is called “gestural abstraction,” but before last night’s debate, I never knew that it was also a governing philosophy. The debate featured many decisions from President Donald Trump that were puzzling, to put it mildly. The president constantly interrupted the moderator, Chris Wallace, and he all but jeered his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, even as Biden discussed the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
Photographs by Philip MontgomeryImage above: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath KeepersStewart Rhodes was living his vision of the future. On television, American cities were burning, while on the internet, rumors warned that antifa bands were coming to terrorize the suburbs. Rhodes was driving around South Texas, getting ready for them. He answered his phone. “Let’s not fuck around,” he said. “We’ve descended into civil war.
The Polarizing Emo Record That Captured Teenage Angst
Wide-eyed and brokenhearted, the greasy-haired Nevada teens of Panic! at the Disco channeled their woes into elaborate, vaudevillian theatrics. (Nigel Crane / Redfern)Before TikTok, SoundCloud, or even YouTube existed, four gawky teenagers from suburban Las Vegas found success by posting their music to an unlikely platform: the Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s LiveJournal page.
Therapists Break Down the Debate’s Toxic Communication Patterns
Last night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden started off placidly enough, with each candidate delivering a measured, coherent answer to a question about the current Supreme Court vacancy. That sense of coherence lasted about five minutes.What followed was shambolic—a disorienting, exasperating medley of half-thoughts, interjections, raised voices, and simultaneous monologues broken up occasionally by brief periods of uninterrupted speech.
Republicans Aren’t Happy With Trump’s Debate Performance
“I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it,” Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said of the president’s refusal to condemn white supremacists.
House panel says drugmakers inflated prices to boost profits and reap bonuses
The Democrat-led reports come just weeks before Election Day, and amid efforts by President Donald Trump to show progress on slashing drug costs.
Kate Aronoff: The Climate Crisis Can’t Take 4 More Years of Trump. We Must Push Biden from the Left
After massive outcry from activists and young voters, debate moderator Chris Wallace questioned President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about the climate crisis at the first presidential debate. He did not include it in his initial list of debate topics. Kate Aronoff, author and staff writer at The New Republic, says she didn’t expect climate change to come up, but was unsurprised by the responses.
“Vigilantism at the Polls”: Trump Attacks Election Integrity, Ballots & Backs Illegal Poll Watching
“It’s a rigged election,” claimed President Trump when he and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were asked about election integrity during last night’s debate as the two men sparred over mail-in voting. Trump ended the debate by calling for poll watchers.
COVID U.S. Death Toll Tops 205,000 & 7M Infections as Trump Mocks Biden’s Mask, Attacks the ACA
During the first presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly criticized President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 205,000 people in the United States — the highest death toll in the world. Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask, while claiming that a vaccine would be available within weeks. “It was very bizarre,” says Marc Lamont Hill, author and professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University.
“He Wants Violence in the Streets”: Trump’s “White Supremacist Project” on Full Display at Debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden were asked about how to address racism during the first presidential debate held in Cleveland. While Biden expressed sympathy with victims of police brutality, President Trump insisted that most violence came from left-wing groups — a false claim ignoring that the vast majority of political violence in the U.S. comes from right-wing extremists, according to the FBI and others.
Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence
President Trump refused to condemn white supremacists during the first of three scheduled presidential debates with Joe Biden. When pressed by moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News to disavow far-right extremism, Trump name-checked the Proud Boys and told them to “stand back and stand by,” words widely denounced as a tacit endorsement of the violent, white supremacist organization classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Help! My Partner Has Turned Our Home Into a Horror Show of Quilts.
Framed quilts on the walls, quilts on the couches, quilted coasters. My house looks like a quilt threw up on it.
There’s a Looming Eviction Crisis, and We Have No Idea How Bad It Will Be
America is very good at tracking when people buy homes—and terrible at tracking how many are booted from them.
Critic Charles Finch on Reading Hundreds of Books a Year
For book reviews, for research, and even for fun.
Trump admin begins shipping rapid coronavirus tests to states
The first shipments, totaling 6.5 million tests, will be sent this week, and the amount each state receives will be based on population data.
Trump’s drug card plan sows confusion – even within administration
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
U.S. coronavirus case count passes 7 million
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
How Trump is undermining his own vaccine race
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
Trump is fuzzy on tax policy as Biden goes all in
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
2020 is the Year Trump Was Worried About
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
Trump stokes a new threat to Wall Street: Election chaos
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.