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Caitlin Cruz at The New Republic writes—I’m Tired of Living Through Extraordinary Times in Texas. As a devastating storm hit my home state, we relied on mutual aid as our elected officials showed their true face:
The state turned away from us; we turned toward each other.
As Americans nationwide obtain COVID-19 vaccinations, tourists continue to travel across the country, despite the risk the novel coronavirus still carries. While travel regulations are in place for safety and are being enforced by both airports and airlines, some travelers refuse to abide by them and are looking for loopholes.
Two tourists from Louisiana were arrested on Feb. 12 for allegedly trying to bribe an airport screener at Daniel K.
The flight attendants union leader urges United to drop the probe because the GOP senator is a “public servant who has lied too many times.
How did I miss this?
In a recent column on the intractable assholery of conservative Republicans, The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent noted a conversation that the ambulatory Ed Gein lamp known as Steve Bannon recently had with a Boston audience.
“Grocery workers say they can’t get coronavirus vaccines, even as they help distribute them,” the Washington Post headline reads. But as the story makes clear, grocery workers don’t “say” they can’t get vaccines. They can’t. Unless they are elderly or have comorbidities in addition to being grocery workers—i.e.
We Rescue Rangers know the Community has broad interests, but you surprised me this week by going big for two rescued stories covering subjects not remotely associated with current news and politics. Previously, I’d exclaimed that Community stories can offer “refuge from politics,” but that referenced nature, more commonly considered a haven away from troubling news.
When the former president visited the restaurant at his D.C. hotel, he loved Diet Cokes, junk food and hearing Heinz ketchup bottles make “pop” sounds.
The former New Jersey governor hasn’t forgotten how Cruz made fun of him for that infamous beach incident in 2017.
A host on the pro-Trump network said the 12-year-old canine looked like a “junkyard” dog.
Fern (played by Frances McDormand), the hardscrabble hero of Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, is the kind of resolute, independent protagonist that has dominated American movies since the dawn of the Western genre. She drives around the country in her van, living as self-sufficiently as possible, and carries a flinty affect with people, revealing little about herself and the turmoil that has led to her life on the road. But Fern is not a bullheaded cowboy fighting on the frontier.
When the first black-hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn’t revolutionize our understanding of black holes—nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astronomers knew, and only with that bounty would answers come.
I’m living with them to help care for my dad, and I’m miserable.
Photographs by Joseph Rodríguez“Police work is doing what people in the city want done,” Willie Williams, the Los Angeles Police Department chief, told me in 1994. Williams, the agency’s first Black chief, had been brought in from Philadelphia to make changes after LAPD officers beat Rodney King in 1991, the incident that ultimately led to the Los Angeles riots.
This is a story about the nadir, the end of days. Monday, March 24, 2008, marked five years to the month after the British army arrived in Iraq, preaching to the Americans their apparent expertise in counterinsurgency operations and understanding of the manifold ways of, in the historical British upper-class vernacular, “the Arab.
President Biden’s plan would actually do a lot of good—but it could do even more.
From the Capitol riot to LGBTQ representation, reality is intruding on the company’s traditional, conservative fantasy.
Thanks to the pandemic, it’s never been easier to give your mayor an earful.
It turns out the pandemic may not have been the budget wrecker everyone feared.
Poor countries and global health advocates have been pushing wealthy nations to share some of their supply, warning that the inequitable vaccine rollout could leave them playing catch-up for years.
“This is a huge decline,” said Robert Anderson, who oversees the numbers for the CDC. “You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this.
A once-in-a-century pandemic provides a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve public health.
A new series from POLITICO and The Fifty surfacing the best ideas from around the country for speeding recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Long, late hours in Boston with the rent past due.
I want to be supportive, but I’m hurt that he didn’t tell me sooner.
My daughter’s teacher already gave her a stern talking-to.
Jamilah and williambryantmiles take on topics of race, sex, and identity.
Allies laud Brian Deese’s leadership on the stimulus negotiations, but he’s rubbed some the wrong way.
The U.S. wants to stop new coal projects, but risks losing poor countries to Beijing’s “Belt and Road” agenda.
Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.
As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.