Biden leaves top FDA job open amid vaccine push
The Biden team’s handwringing has left an agency central to the pandemic fight without a permanent leader.
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Uniformed Man Knelt By Beau Biden’s Grave During Inaugural Address
Delaware journalist Patricia Talorico captured the emotional photo just as President Joe Biden was delivering his first speech after being sworn in.
Twitter Users Slam Stephen Miller For Attacking Joe Biden On Twitter
One person told the former White House adviser point-blank: “You lost. Decency won. Go away.
The Sound of Silence
Donald Trump’s presidency concluded not with mutiny in state capitals or an attempted attack on his successor, but with a calm, conventional ceremony in an otherwise quiet city.Walking through Washington, D.C., today, the silence in the streets was the sound of a country not quite ready to exhale. It was a fitting end to the noisiest era of American politics that many Americans can remember.
States’ new vaccine worry: Not enough doses
More states are running low on the Covid-19 vaccine just as they’re getting administering shots faster and expanding eligibility.
The Atlantic Daily: Biden Gives a Strikingly Normal Speech
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.Today’s presidential inauguration was mostly remarkable for how unremarkable it was. My colleague Annie Lowrey described today’s scene at the Capitol as “patriotic normcore.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace Says Biden’s Was The ‘Best Inaugural Address I Ever Heard’
The anchor also made a pointed comment about the president’s words on “lies that are told for power and … for profit.
What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day
At dawn this morning, workers loaded couches and tables into a moving truck parked outside the West Wing. Men wearing white coveralls and carrying roller brushes and paint cans walked across the north driveway. Inside the White House, pictures of the 45th president had been removed from the walls. Only the hooks remained, ready for a new set of portraits of the 46th.
‘It’s Over’: Devastated QAnon Believers Grapple With President Joe Biden’s Inauguration
A look inside QAnon’s virtual inauguration watch party, which went horribly wrong.
Surgeon general to step down as Biden requested
Jerome Adams played a leading communications role in President Donald Trump’s pandemic response.
The Way Forward: Can the Left Push Biden to Be a Transformative President Like LBJ, FDR & Lincoln?
We look at the path forward for the Biden-Harris administration and the role of social movements with political strategist Waleed Shahid and author and analyst Michael Eric Dyson. Shahid, spokesperson for the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats, says Biden could be “one of the most transformative presidents” in U.S. history if he acts boldly.
“Unmitigated Disaster”: Michael Eric Dyson on How Trump Turned White House into “Fulcrum of Fascism”
As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inaugurated and the Trump presidency comes to an end, we look back at his regime with author and analyst Michael Eric Dyson. “The Trump presidency has been an unmitigated disaster,” Dyson says. His “direct assault” on democratic processes resulted in a “neofascist presidency that attempted to undermine the very legitimacy of the democracy that he was put in office to uphold.
CIA Whistleblower: Biden Intel Pick Avril Haines Approved Obama Drone Strike Kill List, Hid Torture
Avril Haines, Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence, began her confirmation hearing Tuesday. She was President Obama’s top lawyer on the National Security Council from 2010 to 2013 and CIA deputy director from 2013 to 2015, where she authorized using drone strikes to carry out targeted extrajudicial assassinations.
Profiting from Pardons: Giuliani Aide Told CIA Whistleblower a Trump Pardon Would Cost $2 Million
With less than 12 hours before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including a pardon for Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist and campaign manager. Trump, who has pardoned other associates and allies during his single term, has so far rejected calls to pardon prominent whistleblowers including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NSA whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Reality Winner.
Help! None of My Friends Are Supporting My Small Business.
How do I communicate how hurt I am without ending these friendships?
Dear Care and Feeding: Should I Tell My Daughter She’s the Result of an Affair?
Parenting advice on affair revelations, angry fathers, and expensive avatars.
Biden’s Covid fight meets a big test: Red-state politics
Biden’s plan to encourage better masking, social distancing, testing and contact tracing could gain traction with governors whose states are overwhelmed.
Joe Biden’s First COVID-Relief Bill Isn’t Screwing Around
He can’t possibly expect the GOP to go along with this—but that might be a good thing.
Biden Needs to Avoid the First Big Mistake of the Obama Era
Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start.
D.C. Residents Put Up With Overbearing Security for 20 Years. It Did Nothing.
What was the point of Fortress D.C.
The Country Lost Jobs in December, Which Was Totally Predictable
This is why so many of us spent the late summer and fall screaming our heads off for Congress to pass some sort of new coronavirus relief bill.
Health officials confident Biden will deliver on promise of 100 million vaccines in 100 days
“There’s no doubt about it that that can be done,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
The crash landing of ‘Operation Warp Speed’
Born as a second Manhattan Project, the Trump administration vaccine program actually achieved most of its goals – until distribution problems marred its success.
Trump admin enlists private firm to review some Covid-19 tests
The decision cuts scientists at the Food and Drug Administration out of the process.
30 Things Donald Trump Did as President You Might Have Missed
Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly. We asked POLITICO’s best-in-class policy reporters to recap some of the ways Trump changed the country while in office, for better or worse.
U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in first monthly loss since spring
At the same time, the unemployment rate stayed at 6.7%, the first time it hasn’t fallen since April.
How Biden’s dream of fighting income inequality runs through Georgia
The share of wealth controlled by the top 1 percent sits at levels not seen since the 1920s. Biden’s hopes for changing it rests on Senate control.
Trump backs down, signs stimulus package
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
Congress sends Covid package and spending measure to Trump
The president has thrown the fate of the bill into jeopardy.