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Fox News Host Juan Williams Destroys Donald Trump In Op-Ed
The former president will be remembered for his “jealous rage” and “greatest failure,” the political analyst wrote.
Scenes From the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Earlier this morning, Dallas Seavey and his team crossed the finish line near Willow, Alaska, to win the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, claiming his fifth title. Seavey is now tied with Rick Swenson, the only other musher to have won five titles. This year, due to the ongoing pandemic, the race took place on a modified 832-mile course called the Gold Trail Loop, staying in the wilderness, avoiding villages, and forgoing the normal ceremonial start in Anchorage.
I Want to Look Damn Good When the World Sees Me Again
All pandemic long, I’ve been hunting for a way—please, literally any way—to bludgeon myself into exercising with some kind of regularity. The quarantine life has turned me into an Indian Gollum. My arms, never quite jacked but at least semi-toned, currently have about as much bulk as overcooked linguini. Whatever seedlings of abs I had last March are now buried deep beneath a permafrost of flab.
Dear Care and Feeding: Another Family at the Playground Keeps Leaving Their Kids With Our Babysitter
Parenting advice on babysitter mooching, Roblox Tiddies, and exhausting mothers.
Essential Workers Put Their Lives on the Line Through the Pandemic. What Are We Doing for Them Now?
“We was essential when this whole thing was going on, but right now, I don’t think people still view us as being essential anymore.
The Odd Pattern That Keeps Happening at the Grammys
One year into fussing with Zoom backgrounds, who can’t relate to Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B twerking in front of a digital wallpaper of purses, diamonds, big-rig trucks, and the rappers’ own faces? At last night’s Grammys, two of hip-hop’s top talents put on a digital-meets-physical hallucination that turned out to be the best entertainment of the night. A stiletto heel doubled as a stripper pole. Cardi and Megan cavorted in a bed as big as a house.
This Tiny Fish Can Withstand Almost Anything
Originating in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, just south of the Chesapeake Bay, the Elizabeth River is turbid and brackish, its banks redolent with the nose-wrinkling stench of rotting vegetation. These muddy, pungent waters support an array of life—oak and maple trees, herons, otters, and oysters.
Biden readies campaign to combat vaccine skeptics
The new vaccine confidence drive underscores the extent to which the administration is still concerned about Americans’ desire to get vaccinated.
U.S. Lawyer Steven Donziger Speaks from House Arrest in NYC After Suing Chevron for Amazon Oil Spills
Decades of reckless oil drilling by Chevron have destroyed 1,700 square miles of land in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but the company has refused to pay for the damage or clean up the land despite losing a lawsuit 10 years ago, when Ecuador’s Supreme Court ordered the oil giant to pay $18 billion on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people.
“Huge Victory”: Black Farmers Hail $5B in New COVID Relief Law to Redress Generations of Racism
A major provision in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill aims to address decades of discrimination against Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian American farmers who have historically been excluded from government agricultural programs. The American Rescue Plan sets aside $10.
COVID Killed Work-Life Balance. Here’s How to Get It Back.
We’ve been “living at work” for a year now.
What COVID-Scarred Cities Can Learn From the Bubonic Plague
The rich flee. The poor have nowhere to go. And there is important work to do in the aftermath.
The Eerie, Awe-Inspiring Images of High Schools That Moved Into Empty Malls
It isn’t dystopian. It’s creative reuse.
Joe Manchin Drops More Hints About How He’d Reform the Filibuster
He wouldn’t nuke it. But his ideas might help neutralize it.
Biden’s COVID Bill Is His First Step Toward an FDR-Style Presidency
This will appreciably improve the lives of Americans—and position the administration to do even more.
Birx joins air purifying company selling Covid tech
The former coronavirus coordinator’s new firm is seeking FDA clearance to market its tech as a coronavirus fighter.
Biden’s new Covid workplace rules set to collide with reopenings
Businesses warn the policy could create confusion and bring hefty new costs for employers.
Fauci’s star rises as relationship with Biden deepens
Few others cast as long a shadow as Fauci — who over the past year has given America a crash course in epidemiology — especially with top health posts vacant.
A Bug’s Life
Photographs by Tine PoppeThis article was published online on March 13, 2021.When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.
Former Stockton Mayor Tubbs joins Newsom as economic adviser
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Biden’s ‘Morning in America’ moment sparks a furious debate
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
U.S. adds a strong 379,000 jobs in hopeful sign for economy
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
Biden’s bubble risk: A reckoning in markets as the economy recovers
“I mean, Shaq has a SPAC. What could go wrong?” one economist says of the euphoria rippling through Wall Street and raising a new round of worries.
Meghan Markle Racism Revelations Are “Shocking, But Not Surprising” to People of Color in U.K.
The British royal family is facing intense criticism over its treatment of Meghan Markle, who revealed shocking details about life as a royal in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, including mistreatment and bullying from other royals, relentless harassment by the British press, and racist comments about Markle, who was born in the United States to a Black mother and a white father. One member of the royal family, according to Markle, even speculated how dark her child’s skin would be.
“Hell on Earth”: Yemeni Children Starve to Death as U.S.-Backed Saudi Blockade Devastates Nation
The World Food Programme is warning Yemen is headed toward the biggest famine in modern history, with the U.N. agency projecting around 400,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 could die from acute malnutrition this year as the Saudi war and blockade continues. CNN senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir says Yemen is accurately described as “hell on Earth.
Share the Vaccines, Erase the Debt: Joseph Stiglitz on How the U.S. Can Help Developing Countries
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says wealthy countries have a responsibility to help the developing world in overcoming the pandemic. He says the response must include vaccine equity as well as economic aid, including debt relief. “America won’t be free from the pandemic until the world is,” says Stiglitz.
The End of Trickle-Down Economics? Joe Stiglitz on the “Transformational” $1.9T American Rescue Plan
President Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which Democrats are hailing as the largest anti-poverty bill in a generation. It includes stimulus checks to most adults, expanded unemployment benefits and an overhaul of the child tax credit. One study projects the law will lift almost 14 million Americans out of poverty, including 5.7 million children. “This is transformational,” says economist Joseph Stiglitz.