A Wisconsin school board member is responding to a petition from about 1,200 people pushing for a Black history curriculum with complaints Black History Month doesn’t include other races. New Berlin Board of Education clerk Jeffrey Kurth voiced his disappointing opinion at a closed school board meeting on Monday discovered initially by ABC-affiliated WISN.
The former president used his speech at the conservative convention to bash the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the first single-dose shot authorized in the U.S.
No, they weren’t forced to rehearse like this. Yes, part of it was staged. And obviously, the tents are awesome.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was applauded at the conservative conference when she rebuked his Covid guidance.
For 50 years, she held on to a secret.
Anne Rearick / Agence vu / ReduxA gentleman comes from the East Coast to make his fortune. When the train lets him off in a dusty Wyoming town, he encounters an array of cowpunchers, card sharps, and ne’er-do-wells, whose coarse manners shock and intrigue him. At the saloon, he’s treated to their opinions on the local women, as well as one man’s boast that he never forgets a face—so long as that face is white.
It took the biological anthropologist decades to meet her match. Here’s what she learned along the way.
Advice about porn, relationships and secrets.
They want to put out the light of God with their mouths—want, like the sovereignty of the dead, extending just short of flesh. Theirtoday is broken, they suggest tomorrow, who right now is dancing in the sun withputty over his eyes. Like an ocean coughing up trash, I’m squeezing Godout from my pores, intention throbbing like a moon. Which ofthe jokes I told was best—the difference between man and light?Light won’t ask for your tongue. Good joke, the taste of lemon.
They’re concerned about the public health message that it sends.
The night that sports began shutting down was the night that the United States began shutting down. On March 11, 2020, an announcer at the Oklahoma City Thunder’s home arena told fans just before tip-off that the evening’s game had been postponed. Within an hour, the visiting Utah Jazz revealed that a player—soon identified as the center Rudy Gobert—had tested positive for COVID-19, and the NBA also declared that it was indefinitely suspending the season.
Why wouldn’t someone want a COVID-19 vaccine?Staring at the raw numbers, it doesn’t seem like a hard choice. Thousands of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. Meanwhile, out of the 75,000 people who received a shot in the vaccine trials from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax, zero died and none were hospitalized after four weeks.
It would actually be better to do nothing.
“When you go private, you stay private.
It’s called marginal-cost pricing, and it isn’t just a red-state problem.
It all comes down to the subjective linguistic judgment of an unelected congressional functionary.
The vaccine, which is given as a single dose and is easy to ship, appeals to officials struggling to vaccinate hard-to-reach or skeptical populations.
The GAO wants to know why health agencies’ Covid-19 data are still inconsistent and confusing to track.
The pandemic and Biden’s incremental policies have scrambled the party’s usual lines of attack.
The longer planning window could address concerns from governors who complained that limited shipment forecasts affect their planning abilities.
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.When asked to curate an hour of new music for Atlantic readers to listen to while walking, my mind immediately went to Sophie Xeon, the brilliant electronica producer who died at age 34 in January.
A troubling TikTok conspiracy theory questions whether Keller was “real.
Parenting advice on biracial worries, theater kid annoyance, and teenage anxiety.
Only businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be able to apply for aid through the massive Paycheck Protection Program.
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.
