The president moved the campaign event in Tulsa, site of a 1921 racist massacre, that would have fallen on a holiday celebrating Black freedom from slavery.
The president moved the campaign event in Tulsa, site of a 1921 racist massacre, that would have fallen on a holiday celebrating Black freedom from slavery.
Demonstrators took to the streets for the 18th day after George Floyd was killed by police, demanding an end to systemic racism and police violence.
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Excerpts from the July edition of the Harper’s Index:
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About one-third of unemployment benefits owed to the millions of people out of work because of the coronavirus epidemic still hasn’t been paid—some $67 billion owed. Jay Shambaugh, an economist at Brookings Institution who has been tracking the funds, says there is “a huge hole. […] There’s a lot more money that should have gone out that has not gone out.
As protests continue across the country following the tragic police killing of George Floyd, reports of police-induced violence have also increased. Footage of officers violently responding to protesters, bystanders, and reporters is quickly making its rounds through social media. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been depicted a number of times in various incidents, including one in which an officer was seen shoving a woman to the ground during a protest in Brooklyn.
Two immigrants who had nearly completed the U.S. citizenship process but whose naturalization ceremonies were cancelled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic have sued, demanding U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allow them to immediately take the oath of allegiance in time to vote in November’s elections.
As Donald Trump warns of antifa, far-right extremists linked to the Boogaloo movement have been repeatedly charged with attacks.
Right-wing media is elevating hoax after hoax and misleading report after misleading report in its ongoing effort to make antifa the big deal Donald Trump wants it to be. Antifa may be a literal footnote to an intelligence bulletin on protest-related violence, but if you follow Fox News, Blaze TV, the Daily Caller, you’re hearing constantly what a giant scary threat it is.
This is the latest effort by the Trump administration to narrowly define sex discrimination.
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.(TIMOTHY MULCARE“Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over,” Yascha Mounk writes. “It certainly is not.” The coronavirus, he argues, will win—and many will be to blame.Meanwhile, our collective understanding of this virus continues to evolve.
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Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
As few as six serious contenders are entering a second round of vetting to become a potential vice presidential nominee.
The former national security adviser says the president has no problem “endangering or weakening the nation” if it helps him win reelection.
In our series “Behind the Byline,” we’re chatting with Atlantic staffers to learn more about who they are and how they approach their work. Ed Yong is a staff writer who covers science. He writes about everything from hagfish slime to giraffe tackling, but since March, he has focused all his reportorial energy on the pandemic.This interview has been lightly edited and condensed.
It turns out creating “fun” takes a lot of work.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
A lot has changed these past couple of weeks. As protesters have gathered following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in late May, the Black Lives Matter movement has rapidly gained public support. Seizing or at least reading the moment, politicians, companies, and organizations have announced a flurry of new policies and revised positions intended to address structural racism.
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
In the abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s 1866 essay “Reconstruction,” he dissects how the enterprise of slavery could not be righted without devising a plan that accounted for the danger in giving states too much autonomy. Douglass was keen to the way the institution of slavery could linger if not reckoned with honestly and ended definitively. Many inconsistent or inaccurate perceptions of American history still persist, obscuring the realities of systemic injustice.
The once-visionary author has been enchanted by an ideology that views cis women as easily corruptible and fears trans temptation lurking in every shadow.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The Trump campaign is busy fighting the battle for hearts and minds this week.Not voters’ hearts and minds—at the moment, the president’s reelection campaign is losing those left and right, with many recent polls showing his position slipping against the presumptive Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.Instead, the Trump reelection team is busy trying to soothe the president’s own troubled mind, and his insecurities.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans’ liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors.
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
The president won’t acknowledge that coronavirus is still a threat — unless it could get him sued.