Don’t Breathe Easy About the Postal Service Yet
The postmaster general said he’ll stop screwing with the mail—but he left some wiggle room.
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Inside Biden’s plan to take on coronavirus
“The way that you build public trust is that you tell the truth,” says one health adviser.
SCOTUS sets hearing on Obamacare for week after election
A Supreme Court decision on the lawsuit isn’t likely until the spring.
Judge halts Trump’s rollback of transgender health protections
Monday’s decision didn’t address other provisions of Trump’s revised nondiscrimination rules.
Masks, surgical gowns, testing supplies on FDA shortage list
The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.
CDC’s chief of staff, deputy chief of staff jointly depart
Both Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell have been with the health department since the start of the Trump administration.
The Atlantic Daily: 9 Podcast Picks From Around Our Newsroom
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.I asked nine people from around our newsroom, including members of our Atlantic podcasting team, to pick an episode worth streaming in this moment. Be sure to also check out our Atlantic podcasts:
Floodlines is the story of an unnatural disaster.
“No More Parties at ND”
“It was very important to me that in this moment we have a physical copy to hold and look at in the future.
Help! I’m Scared Employers Will Find Out I Didn’t Actually Graduate From College.
I don’t want to be caught in a lie, but how much does a degree matter anyway?
Unemployment Isn’t Too High — Regular Wages Are Too Low
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
Japan’s economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
Negotiators ‘miles apart’ on Covid funding, with little hope for deal until September
Asked when she would next be meeting with Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “I don’t know. When they come in with $2 trillion.
British economy plunged record 20 percent in second quarter
“It is clear that the UK is in the largest recession on record,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.
‘It means nothing’: Trump’s pledge to aid tenants won’t halt evictions
Donald Trump’s executive order wouldn’t do much to immediately help the 20 million or so Americans who face losing their homes in the next few months.
Cornel West & Ben Jealous on the DNC and Whether Progressives Can Push Joe Biden Leftward
Harvard professor Cornel West and Ben Jealous, president of People for the American Way and former president of the NAACP, discuss the 2020 DNC, Joe Biden’s vow to fight systemic racism and “overcome this season of darkness in America,” the historic nomination of Kamala Harris as his partner on the ticket, and how the convention was a showcase for a broad anti-Trump coalition, including prominent Republican figures given plum speaking slots, but few voices from the party&rsq
“Light Is More Powerful Than Dark”: Biden Vows to Fight COVID, Climate, Racism & Economic Meltdown
We air highlights from Joe Biden’s highly anticipated speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, in which he formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on the dangers of President Trump’s reelection and pledged to address the four simultaneous crises of systemic racism, the pandemic, the economic downturn and the climate crisis. “United, we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America,” Biden said.
Virtual 2020 DNC Wraps with Calls for Empathy, Unity & a Broad Coalition to Rally Around Joe Biden
The 2020 Democratic National Convention has wrapped up, with speakers on the final night including California Governor Gavin Newsom, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and 13-year-old Brayden Harrington, who talked about how Joe Biden had personally helped him with his stutter. We air highlights from the evening’s addresses.
Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass: Remembering 1st Black Woman to Run for VP in 1952
Senator Kamala Harris is the first Indian American and first Black woman to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket, but, as many historians have noted, Harris is not the first Black woman to run for vice president.
Twitter immediately noticed a hidden message in Warren’s DNC video, but it’s not the only one
When Sen. Elizabeth Warren virtually addressed the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night, her message centered mostly on child care affordability and access. Given that she spoke to viewers from the Early Childhood Education Center in Springfield, Massachusetts (which has been closed for months during the novel coronavirus pandemic), that focus makes sense.
Michael Cohen’s Book Will Bare Trump’s ‘Steep Illegality,’ Vows Anthony Scaramucci
It’s all going to “come out in a waterfall” ahead of the election, said Trump’s short-time director of communications.
Trump ‘Has No Principles’ And ‘You Can’t Trust Him,’ His Sister Reportedly Said On Tape
“His goddamned tweets and lying, oh my God,” Maryanne Trump Barry told niece Mary Trump in secret recordings, The Washington Post reported.
Tracing the roots of city boy Trump’s racist ‘suburban dream’ nonsense—all the way to Rush Limbaugh
It’s no surprise that the current occupant of the White House is running for reelection on racism. Given his track record, it would be a surprise if he weren’t. Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric has always centered on fearmongering around crime, going back not just to the start of his presidential campaign in 2015, but back to the 1980s.
While the nation marches for the Postal Service, 26 Republicans break rank on House funding bill
The House of Representatives convened a special session on Saturday, specifically to address the Postal Service crisis created by the Trump administration, passing a legislative package that includes $25 billion in funding and blocks Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s recent and future attempts to foment chaos and inefficiency in this most essential and Constitutionally-protected service.
Racial inequity in schools pushes more BIPOC parents to homeschool
When Edeline Mackey’s daughter was getting ready to enter kindergarten in the late ‘90s, her mother knew the public school system might present some challenges against receiving a quality education. At the time, Mackey was a teaching assistant in Broward County, Florida, and had witnessed the ways students of color were treated differently by teachers and administrators.
Trump Accuses FDA Of ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against Him Over COVID-19 Vaccine Testing
Nancy Pelosi says accusation goes “beyond the pale,” even for Trump, “in terms of how he would jeopardize” Americans’ health to serve his reelection.
Postal workers are speaking out to save our democracy, this week in the war on workers
As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy slows down mail delivery to help Donald Trump accomplish his goal of undermining mail-in voting and to continue the decades-long Republican war on the U.S. Postal Service, postal workers have sounded the alarm. “You don’t just go and tell management, ‘Hey, I saw that. That’s not allowed,’ ” Scott Adams, an American Postal Workers Union local president in Maine told the Portland Press-Herald’s Bill Nemitz.
QAnon Cultists, Emboldened By Trump, Rally In Hollywood To Spread Dangerous Conspiracies
QAnon rallies were planned in at least 200 locations across the U.S. on Saturday.
In Leaked Audio, Trump Credits Black Americans Who Didn’t Vote In 2016: Reports
“Many Blacks didn’t go out to vote for Hillary ’cause they liked me,” Trump claimed.
Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America
“Anatomy of a Photograph” is an occasional series in which we assess visual meaning in a hyper-recorded world.“God, forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system.” — Mary Chesnut’s Diary, on the eve of the Civil War, March 1861Pick almost any recent event. In all likelihood, an extraordinary amount of visual evidence of it will exist. Body cameras, cellphone cameras, news cameras, traffic cameras. Cameras everywhere.