New York unions representing teachers and principals have reached a deal with the city over how to reopen the largest public school system in the United States, averting a planned strike by educators. “We feel betrayed, and we feel as if it’s an inadequate plan,” says Aixa Rodriguez, a Bronx-based high school teacher.
As the coronavirus pandemic contributes to a glut of fossil fuels, groups like Greenpeace are calling on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to ban fossil fuel interests from his campaign and administration, if he wins, even as he recently declared at a campaign stop that he “will not ban fracking.” We discuss the politics of fossil fuels with reporter Antonia Juhasz, who says the end of oil could be near, and look at how the industry has profited from the COVID bailout.
I try to be nice, but mean words just slip out of my mouth sometimes. Now I have no friends.
Parents are scrambling to sort out child care. What if they had a massive lobby in D.C.
It’s a surprisingly principled stand by a multibillionaire.
It’s scary to start out on your own. But it’s dangerous to stay in a job you hate.
The proposed communications contract comes as the agency faces growing questions about its independence from the Trump White House.
Virus cases are dropping everywhere, but the rush to reopen could backfire.
Berlin is emerging as the likely new global health power but it doesn’t want to go it alone.
Two attendees and two members of support staff tested positive for the virus.
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
In Part 2 of our interview with Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, we air excerpts from the families of Jacob Blake and George Floyd at the massive protest marking the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, and discuss President Trump’s planned visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, as he blames Democrats for violence during protests there and in Portland, Oregon.
“This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it yet” is a line in Nina Simone’s epic protest song “Mississippi Goddam,” written in 1963 after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama that left four little Black girls dead. I’m sitting here watching an all too familiar and deadly show more than 50 years later.
The incumbent defeated Rep. Joe Kennedy III, the first loss in the state for one of the Democratic Party’s most storied dynasties.
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey prevailed in an expensive Democratic primary battle on Tuesday by winning renomination against Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who is a member of what is arguably America’s most prominent political family. While many votes remain to be counted, Kennedy’s campaign has confirmed that he has conceded to the incumbent. Markey will have no trouble in the general election in this very blue state.
Kennedy, who is the grandson of Robert F.
As the nation continues to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, another public health crisis continues, too, and this one also disproportionately impacts Black and brown Americans. What is it? Police violence. As protests against police brutality continue in cities across the country, a new art installation called Society’s Cage reminds people who visit the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
For the better part of a year, Senator Edward Markey was a legislator spiraling toward a forced retirement, a veteran progressive whose legacy in Massachusetts would soon be reduced to a footnote in the latest chapter of the Kennedy dynasty. Polls taken last fall showed Representative Joe Kennedy III trouncing Markey in a Democratic primary; at the height of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, it was unclear whether Markey could even muster enough signatures to get on the ballot.
Despite consistent recommendations from healthcare officials in the U.S. for individuals to wear masks and avoid large gatherings in an effort to decrease the spread of the novel coronavirus, some Americans continue to do otherwise. Republicans nationwide are encouraging this behavior by allowing and attending events that lack both social distancing efforts and masks, even when state mask mandates are in place.
As schools reopen amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, many school districts are going virtual only, or are working on a hybrid model, where students attend a mix of in-person and online classes. While attending school from home is pretty evidently a safer option amid a global pandemic, home doesn’t hold the same opportunities for every student.
“When you have Fox’s Laura Ingraham telling you it sounds like a conspiracy theory, it’s probably a conspiracy theory,” Daniel Dale said.
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017.
Public health officials advised people to “make it a little kinky” during the coronavirus. They listened.
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.GETTY / THE ATLANTICThe fight to contain this pandemic is playing out on many fronts. To name just a few: Some researchers are working on vaccines, others on testing. Meanwhile, contact tracers attempt to suppress outbreaks before they begin.
The president’s latest unproven fearmongering involves groups of left-wing extremists allegedly flying commercial to wreak havoc on ordinary Americans.
