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.(JIM WATSON / AFP / GETTY)1. President Trump floated postponing the election, something he lacks the legal authority to do. The maneuver is not what it looks like on the surface, David A.
Trump had nothing on his schedule until mid-afternoon Thursday – as Barack Obama was about to take the stage at the civil rights leader’s memorial service.
There’s a new app, and when isn’t there? This one is called E.gg, and it looks like a mix of Tumblr and GeoCities: The “About” page features a dancing-baby GIF, against a background of a starry night sky, with text in deliberately nauseating shades of highlighter yellow and green.
“I’ve come here today because I, like so many Americans, owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom,” the former president said.
Former President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy today honoring Representative John Lewis of Georgia, who died July 17 after a decades-long career in the House of Representatives. Lewis, a civil-rights icon who led the 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and spoke at the March on Washington, spent his congressional years advocating for voting rights and equality for Black Americans.
Plus: Home Schooling 101 with three moms who taught their kids long before the pandemic.
Health care alone accounted for 26 percent of the plunge in economic activity.
Noam Chomsky says Israel’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank “basically formalizes” what has already been official policy over the last half-century, from both left-wing and right-wing parties in Israel. He compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to anti-immigrant policies in the United States, and says the main goal of annexation is to take over as much territory while excluding its Palestinian inhabitants.
As the world races to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Noam Chomsky says any successful treatment must be accessible to everyone, and he warns that President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization will hamper the international body’s efforts to distribute medicine in countries racked by poverty and war.
As the U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 150,000, we spend the hour with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky, who says decades of neoliberal policies that shredded the social safety net and public institutions left the country ill-prepared for a major health crisis. “We should understand the roots of this pandemic,” he says.
They’re blaming my girlfriend for my refusal.
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The legislation is so pathogen-friendly it might as well have been brought to us by the lobbyists at Big COVID.
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Progressives are insisting the party embrace “Medicare for All” in grim times.
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
Said one psychologist studying facial perception, “That’s nightmare-inducing.
I’m worried my habit might be crossing a line.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
Under a shocking new Trump administration policy, hundreds of people who came to the United States seeking asylum were secretly held in hotels for days on end before being expelled from the country, often with little or no paper trail. This includes more than 200 unaccompanied immigrant children — including babies and toddlers — who were taken to hotels near the Texas-Mexico border by a private contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Hello, Daily Kos community! We are back at It again with another episode of “How Did We Get Here?”
This week we are tackling, or should I say toppling, Confederate monuments.
The topic of the Confederacy is near and dear to my heart as someone who was raised primarily in the American South. I’ve lived in Louisiana and Georgia, as well as different cities in North, Central, and South Florida.