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.THE ATLANTICThe development of a coronavirus vaccine won’t end this pandemic overnight. Instead, it’ll merely mark “the beginning of the end.
They discussed the attractiveness of a college freshman from our daughter’s sports poster.
Both Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Joe Biden are expected to visit the late congressman as he lies in state.
The former Republican presidential candidate and Trump campaign surrogate is “being treated with oxygen for his lungs,” his team said.
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
A few decades ago, “American beer” had the same connotation in the world of brewing as Velveeta-style “American cheese” had for connoisseurs of Stilton or Brie. Mid-20th-century American beer culture was known for its handful of giant breweries, and for the unadventurous, bland lagers they pumped out.In those days, brewers in England or Belgium or Germany would roll their eyes at what Yanks considered “good beer.
Twenty years ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist—not generally thought of as a radical liberal—said: “We can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed in the States, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims.
Parenting advice on poly teens, Instagram modeling, and photo bans.
The Atlantic has hired Clint Smith as a staff writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in education from Harvard University this spring, has contributed to The Atlantic over the past several years––in June, he wrote on becoming a parent in the age of Black Lives Matter, and was part of The Atlantic’s KING special issue in 2018.
Amid a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism, we speak with Princeton African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, whose new book on James Baldwin offers lessons from the iconic writer for the present. Baldwin, says Glaude, insisted that “we put aside the myths and illusions and understand what white supremacy has done in terms of disfiguring and distorting the character of this nation.
Memorials for John Lewis, the civil rights icon and 17-term congressmember, are highlighting the bravery he and others showed in the face of police violence as they fought for the right to vote. We highlight the radical early years of Lewis, when he was chairperson of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His political upbringing as a youth and student organizer and “the movement that he came out of” can’t be ignored, says Princeton professor Eddie Glaude.
As nationwide protests against systemic racism and police violence stretch into their second month, President Trump has sent a team of federal agents to Seattle, following a controversial deployment of federal forces in Portland, Oregon. “We don’t know exactly what the federal officers are doing.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
I don’t want her to see our personal information, and I don’t love that he won’t handle this task himself.
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.
Instead of wearing all-day smiles, I tell people to fix their masks.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
