Many of Judd Apatow’s protagonists have had the mindset of someone who lives in their parents’ basement. Steve Carell’s 40-year-old virgin, Seth Rogen’s many affable stoners, and Amy Schumer’s titular train wreck were all lovable heroes who had plenty of growing up left to do.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
This is the latest effort by the Trump administration to narrowly define sex discrimination.
How a collision between libertarianism, pandemic, and protests brought down the leader of the fitness juggernaut CrossFit.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans’ liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors.
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
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Excerpts from the July edition of the Harper’s Index:
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I don’t feel right about letting this slide.
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
After years of scandal and declining sales, the iconic brand is struggling to survive the coronavirus.
About one-third of unemployment benefits owed to the millions of people out of work because of the coronavirus epidemic still hasn’t been paid—some $67 billion owed. Jay Shambaugh, an economist at Brookings Institution who has been tracking the funds, says there is “a huge hole. […] There’s a lot more money that should have gone out that has not gone out.
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
It turns out creating “fun” takes a lot of work.
As protests continue across the country following the tragic police killing of George Floyd, reports of police-induced violence have also increased. Footage of officers violently responding to protesters, bystanders, and reporters is quickly making its rounds through social media. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been depicted a number of times in various incidents, including one in which an officer was seen shoving a woman to the ground during a protest in Brooklyn.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
As Donald Trump warns of antifa, far-right extremists linked to the Boogaloo movement have been repeatedly charged with attacks.
The once-visionary author has been enchanted by an ideology that views cis women as easily corruptible and fears trans temptation lurking in every shadow.
Two immigrants who had nearly completed the U.S. citizenship process but whose naturalization ceremonies were cancelled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic have sued, demanding U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allow them to immediately take the oath of allegiance in time to vote in November’s elections.
The WHO Africa chief said that community transmission has begun in more than half of Africa’s 54 countries and “this is a serious sign.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
I’ve always thought that he was hiding things from me.
The Fed chief will likely keep up his persistent advice to Congress to spend more to spur a meaningful recovery.
