As President Trump continues to push for schools to reopen even as COVID-19 rates skyrocket in many states, teachers are revolting. “I love my students, and I know that the best place for them to learn is in classrooms where they can collaborate and collectively solve problems,” says Seattle high school teacher Jesse Hagopian.
With the novel coronavirus roaring in the United States, Washington, D.C., like much of the country, has shuttered its popular destinations, including many museums, art galleries, and eateries. But if you happen to live in or be visiting the district, you may stumble upon golden statues depicting Donald Trump around the city, including two in Freedom Plaza and outside of the Trump Hotel.
Yertle the Goddamn Fucking Disgrace (apologies to Dr. Seuss) doesn’t seem to think helping out unemployed workers and others screwed sideways by the coronavirus pandemic—and Donald Trump’s feckless, floundering response to it—is an urgent matter. At least not as urgent as, say, forcing barmy right-wing justices on us, our children, and/or our still-frozen embryo clones.
A Black teen working at a Washington state Lowe’s was forced to change clothes when a customer interpreted his “Black Panther Wakanda Forever” shirt as racist, according to KIRO 7. Kyle Sales told the television station his supervisor pulled him aside last weekend and gave him two options: either buy a new shirt or go home and change. “This is from a movie. How is this racist?” he asked.
Four protesters in Louisville, the same Kentucky city Breonna Taylor was killed in, started a hunger strike Monday; they say they won’t be stopping until justice for Taylor is achieved, The Louisville Courier-Journal initially reported. Amira Bryant, Ari Maybe, Vincent Gonzalez, and Tabin Ibershoff announced their plan to only eat vitamin supplements and drink water, green tea, and black coffee.
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Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
The Wisconsin lawmaker says it would just cost too much.
Sen. Ron Johnson will not say where material to investigate Joe Biden is coming from, but a former pro-Russian lawmaker in Ukraine has said he is a source.
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 ATLANTICAs America continues to reckon with systemic racism, anti-racist reading lists are everywhere. But two of our writers warn against treating even well-intended works as a cure-all.These books need to be paired with concrete, structural changes.
Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry lobbyist opposed by environmental and consumer groups, “doesn’t have the votes,” the senator told HuffPost.
Parenting advice on family adoptions, quarantine dating, and annoying campers.
Federal interference in Portland, Oregon, has been widely condemned by local officials.
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com.Dr. Hamblin,We have been told that washing our hands with soap and water for 20 seconds kills the virus, and that the virus doesn’t stay viable on surfaces for more than a couple of days.
The photo was taken during pro-democracy protests in Ukraine in 2014.
In March 2011, The Colbert Report aired an installment of “Difference Makers,” the segment in which Stephen Colbert, through the character he played on the show, satirized American “heroes” in the guise of celebrating them. Its subject this time was a lawyer who had been making headlines for his efforts to challenge the constitutionality of “ladies’ nights” at bars.
In mid-March, my two middle-school-aged daughters were sent home from school. They didn’t know that their school year was essentially at an end, or that they would not see some of their friends for a long time. They didn’t know that they wouldn’t sit in a classroom for at least six months. They didn’t know that their lives would be changed for even longer.Their lessons continued online, but the quality fell. The girls found them uninteresting.
New offensives against major cities from President Donald Trump and GOP governors are pushing at the central geographic fault line between the Republican and Democratic coalitions.On one front, Trump is taking his confrontational approach toward big cities to an ominous new level by deploying federal law-enforcement officials to Portland and potentially other locales over the objection of local officials.
Amid a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations across the United States, the Latinx community has been hit especially hard in places like California, where many Latinx workers fill essential jobs as farmworkers and meatpackers. “Latino and people of color basically do the scut work that keep the state going, its economy going, but get very little of the resources,” says Dr.
The African continent has mostly escaped the worst of the pandemic, but the World Health Organization is now warning of an impending acceleration of its spread. “We have always been very clear that the pandemic in Africa was a delayed pandemic, that the continent wasn’t spared,” says Dr. John Nkengasong, director for Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
COVID-19 infections are skyrocketing in South Africa, now fifth in the world for coronavirus cases, with an already fragile hospital system. “I really think it’s our inequality reckoning moment,” says Fatima Hassan, a human rights lawyer with the Health Justice Initiative. “All of the fault lines of South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy, and its inequality and its violence, is actually coming to the fore.
Guess what happens if the government takes away all the aid it’s been sending people.
Billing protections appear as stuck as ever, with powerful health industry interests gridlocked.
Alarm over the missing data, which was restored Thursday, became the latest source of tension between the CDC and administration officials.
