After sending out a survey to thousands of its staff members on racism Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) has been accused of racism itself. The survey included a question that requested individuals to identify themselves and listed “yellow” as an option, a term often used like “the orient” as a slur against Asian Americans.
According to Reuters the survey entitled the “U.N.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. For years, I’ve built this guide around questions that get submitted, hoping to help small candidates field questions.
One of the nervous tics of the Donald Trump “administration” is a seeming obsession with new arms sales. Trump himself has boasted of and promoted the sales, and began doing so early on; he seems to regard weapons sales as something in his Professional Businessguy comfort zone, something with numbers attached, and hardball negotiations needed, and lots of opportunities for grifting around the edges.
The GOP will renominate Donald Trump for president, one week after Democrats nominated former Vice President Joe Biden.
A review of thousands of pages of emails showed how industries pressured governors to reopen the economy in spite of COVID-19.
Pro: free child care. Con: I think they’re in love.
North Carolina has the ninth-largest population of any state in the U.S., with about 10.5 million residents. From the shores of the Outer Banks through the farms and cities of the central Piedmont, to the western Appalachian Mountains, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of North Carolina and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
In 1960, when he was still in his 30s and already a renowned novelist, Norman Mailer wrote about that year’s Democratic National Convention in an article for Esquire magazine. Mailer’s article was called “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” and it was later hailed as one of the most important forebears of the “New Journalism” movement of the ’60s and ’70s.
Americans are five months deep in a historic economic crisis. From February to April, the country’s unemployment rate shot up from , “That extra $600 is what’s been keeping us alive.”But then the support stopped. The additional $600 of weekly assistance expired in late July, and the one-off stimulus payments are at this point “a relic of history” for many families, Mattingly told me.
Photo illustration by Miki LoweBeing called a “domestic poet”—a chronicler of home life, of small, private matters—never sat well with Mona Van Duyn. The first female poet laureate, Van Duyn did write about love and marriage, but she was quick to push back against reductive labels. “It is a limiting term,” she once said, for a poet who “uses domestic metaphor to describe ideas, bizarre scientific developments, the possibility of nuclear destruction.
Parenting advice on biological parents, puberty, and imaginary play.
When I moved to California five years ago, I planted a tree in my yard. It was a Red Baron peach, chosen for its showy, bright-pink blossoms and its ability to grow fruit with few cool nights. For the past nine centuries, Southern California has been perfect for this tree, with mild winters and mild summers.I planted the Red Baron for the climate we once had. That climate is no more.
Appointed to run the UK’s new public health body, Dido Harding comes with baggage.
A scandal-by-scandal breakdown of what’s really gone wrong with the mail.
Words of praise in the White House Rose Garden led to calls for boycott.
The Trump donor’s qualifications and vetting were both highly unusual, according to new congressional testimony.
The postmaster general said he’ll stop screwing with the mail—but he left some wiggle room.
“The way that you build public trust is that you tell the truth,” says one health adviser.
A Supreme Court decision on the lawsuit isn’t likely until the spring.
Monday’s decision didn’t address other provisions of Trump’s revised nondiscrimination rules.
The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.
Both Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell have been with the health department since the start of the Trump administration.
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.I asked nine people from around our newsroom, including members of our Atlantic podcasting team, to pick an episode worth streaming in this moment. Be sure to also check out our Atlantic podcasts:
Floodlines is the story of an unnatural disaster.
“It was very important to me that in this moment we have a physical copy to hold and look at in the future.
I don’t want to be caught in a lie, but how much does a degree matter anyway?
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
Asked when she would next be meeting with Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “I don’t know. When they come in with $2 trillion.
