This weekend, a caravan of Trump supporters in Texas tried to run a Biden campaign bus off the road, ahead of a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court Sunday rejecting a Republican effort brought by a QAnon supporter to throw out nearly 127,000 early votes from 10 drive-thru polling locations in Harris County, but now a similar lawsuit has been filed in federal court.
Police in Alamance County in North Carolina pepper-sprayed a peaceful get-out-the-vote march Saturday, descending on the crowd after they stopped near a Confederate monument to kneel in honor of George Floyd, who was killed by police in Minneapolis in May. Viral videos of the violent police action show officers in riot gear attacking the marchers, including young children and elderly people, who had intended to walk to a polling place on the last day of early voting in North Carolina.
Slate Money talks the Trump economy, dual interest rates, and Chewy.
The rational thing to do is to shut down—and bail out—the restaurants and bars.
There’s some troubling new data about the Postal Service’s performance in swing states right now.
The sign-up season begins amid an intensifying pandemic and shortly before the Supreme Court will weigh Obamacare’s fate.
Nearly every region of the country is reporting an uptick in infections and hospitalizations.
“I’ve personally seen people working on their resumes inside the office,” a senior official added. “It’s no secret.
The latest surge comes ahead of what’s expected to be an especially dangerous winter for the virus, with hospitalizations already on the rise.
The updated guidance defines a “close contact” as anyone who spends at least 15 minutes within six feet of an infected individual over a 24-hour period.
Nowadays, actors and musicians have themselves documented as holograms before they die.
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
The new Open Storefronts program — modeled on the city’s popular outdoor dining initiative — will allow 40,000 businesses to set up open air operations.
The selling in U.S. markets followed broad declines in Europe.
About 1 in 3 people were either working in a different job in September than they were in February or were unemployed, researchers say.
Covid isn’t just disproportionately killing people of color; it’s sticking them in a feedback loop that exacerbates economic and racial inequity, says Chicago economist Damon Jones.
As Donald Trump and Joe Biden make their final campaign pushes in battleground states that could decide the election, we speak with author and journalist Jesse Wegmen about the case for abolishing the Electoral College system altogether and moving toward a national popular vote for electing the president. Two of the last three presidents — George W. Bush and Donald Trump — came to office after losing the popular vote.
Native American voters could sway key Senate races in next week’s election in Montana, North Carolina, Arizona and Maine. Investigative journalist Jenni Monet says that for many tribal citizens, the contest is not just about Democrats and Republicans. These voters “support those who understand their sovereignty,” says Monet, who writes the newsletter “Indigenously.” She is a tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna.
As the 2020 campaign enters its final days, we go to Georgia, where two Senate seats are up for grabs and both Republican incumbents face stiff opposition. Joe Biden is also spending significant time in the state, which no Democratic presidential candidate has won since 1992. “Georgia is truly in play,” says Emory University professor Carol Anderson.
The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional $600 a week through July — helped keep millions afloat, but more than 8 million people have been forced into poverty since the aid ended. “The relief was temporary, and much of it has now expired, so now we’re seeing poverty rise again,” says Megan Curran, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University.
It is that time again, when the world outside the United States stops, when us foreigners hold our collective breath and look up from our own domestic concerns to discover who the citizens of America have chosen as their new Caesar—and ours.The outcome has always mattered, and mattered enormously, but has rarely affected an American ally’s core strategy: The U.S.
The president denied the reports but said it is a “terrible thing” to allow states to “tabulate ballots for a long period.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Jane Mayer at The New Yorker writes—Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose:
The downfall of Richard Nixon, in the summer of 1974, was, as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein relate in “The Final Days,” one of the most dramatic in American history.
What to think of this column by Frank Bruni, written for The New York Times, discussing how the last four years have so brutally ripped the veil from our eyes, revealing the stark, amoral emptiness of so many millions of our fellow American citizens? The title of the column itself—“How Will I Ever Look at America the Same Way Again?
At this point, it seems unlikely anyone’s minds will change about their presidential candidate of choice. It seems like everyone knows the David Sedaris take on undecided voters, and I don’t believe this last dash is even about them. These final days of the Biden-Harris campaign are about motivating voters to go to the polls in the first place. To convince them that they must do their part to help rid this country of the worst president it’s ever seen.
I’ve argued with many a conservative over the years. No matter what the argument, be it violence against women, kids in cages, killing old people to save the economy, etc., the right-wing extremists will always try to bring up abortion. They do this for two reasons: they can’t possibly justify their base’s cruelty, and they falsely believe they have the moral high ground on the abortion issue. They don’t.
The Fox News host was annoyed the first family ignored the mask mandate. He also swatted at Donald Trump’s “daddy issue.
