Trump Shrugs Off Massive Kremlin Cyberattack As No Biggie, Baselessly Points To China
“Russia, Russia, Russia is the chant when anything happens,” Trump tweeted after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the attack.
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Q&A: Bronx-based organizer Elisa Crespo on public education, housing, and sex workers’ rights
When Bronx-based community organizer Elisa Crespo advocates for housing accessibility, investment in public education, and job security, it’s personal. The 30-year-old is fueled by memories of growing up in New York City, witnessing her single mother fighting to sustain herself and her four children.
Bernie Sanders: Trump’s An ‘Authoritarian,’ But Also ‘A Reflection Of The Democratic Party’
The Vermont senator argued that 73 million still voted for Trump, and the Democratic Party had to transform itself to “bring working class people on board.
For Subscribers: Our Health and Science Writers Reflect on This Pandemic Year
This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching, just for you.
The timeline of how COVID-19 took hold in America can feel disorienting.
An Ode to Naps
Tim LahanThis article was published online on December 19, 2020.With the nap, it can go either way.It can succeed, which is to say it can perform its function of refreshment and revival. Twenty minutes or so of light, untroubled sleep, just when you need it. After lunch, perhaps; nature gently makes the suggestion. So you settle; you sink. But not too far. A delicious shallowness. You open your eyes.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Liberating Power of Music
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom begins with what seems at first like a harrowing journey. Netflix’s new adaptation of the late August Wilson’s play opens with a foreboding shot of the woods; the only noises are of crickets chirping, dogs barking, and young Black men gasping for air as they sprint through the trees. But then, we hear the music.
The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
Illustration by Trevor Davis; family photos courtesy of Arun Venugopal; other images by Federico Benocci / Eyeem / Getty; Tim Abramowitz / Getty; Michelle Marsan / ShutterstockThis article was published online on December 19, 2020.In 1978, several years after leaving India and coming to Texas, my parents decided to move out of our middle-class neighborhood in southwest Houston.
Help! My Son Keeps Stealing My Flavored Condoms.
He’s been trading them for his friends’ lunches at school.
Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not
The day I visited St. Thomas the Apostle School in Peckham, South London, a new shutdown was announced for Britain’s capital. But the comprehensive—a public high-school, in American parlance—was open. It was freezing: Doors were propped open for ventilation. Pupils chattered in the playground while wearing face coverings emblazoned with the school logo. For all that, the experience felt surprisingly normal.
Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Deserve to Be Transportation Secretary, but He Could Be Great at It
Disgraceful mass transit, record pedestrian deaths, uncontrolled emissions—transportation could use someone with ambition.
Now Streaming: Jamilah Lemieux With The Wire Alum Brandon Young
Tune in for a conversation about making music and not being afraid of self-promotion.
When I Boarded My Cargo Ship Last Year, I Could Never Have Imagined What COVID Would Bring
First, we were trapped for six months off the American coast—and then it got even darker.
Fed sees less severe recession this year but warns of tough winter
Officials said they expect the U.S. economy to shrink by 2.4 percent this year, a brighter forecast than they offered just three months ago.
Biden faces a massive boom ahead — or maybe another recession first
Vaccine euphoria is giving economic forecasters hope for a blockbuster 2021 and stretching stock market valuations to historic highs. It’s a setup that leaves no room for error.
Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Friday Night Owls: ‘Trump’s most vicious cultists aren’t done with America’
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
33 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Felipe de la Hoz at The New Republic writes—Trump’s Most Vicious Cultists Aren’t Done With America. They gleefully enabled a corrupt president for years.
Defense bill Trump is threatening to veto contains cyber security to protect against Russian hacks
A Friday briefing on the Russian hack into “SolarWinds” networking software on government sites left members of Congress frustrated as officials shared less information than what was already available from public sources. Meanwhile Donald Trump has finally mentioned Russia on Twitter, except it wasn’t to admit to Russia’s massive hack into federal systems, or even to finally condemn Russia’s paying bounties for the murder of American soldiers. Nope.
Biden picks two women with strong environmental credentials for Energy and domestic climate adviser
As widely reported earlier this week, President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to run the Department of Energy (DOE) and former Environmental Protection Administration Chief Gina McCarthy to run a new White House office on climate change. Both women have strong environmental records and can be expected to be assertive key figures in the Biden administration, which is making the climate crisis a top priority.
A (kind of) farewell to the best friend this community has ever had
Neeta Lind, aka Navajo, is retiring at the the end of the year.
She is our beloved Director of Community. I don’t know when she actually started working here and I can’t bother to look it up because to me, Neeta has been tirelessly organizing this community from the very beginning. There is no Daily Kos without her. And I don’t know how you bid farewell to a friend, coworker, and resident diva.
Grateful grandma delivers 800 tamales to hospital staff who saved her life during COVID-19 struggle
A grandmother of 12 contracted COVID-19 in April and spent 20 days in the hospital at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. KTLA reports that Margarita Montañez was unable to see her family during this time, which included almost two weeks spent on a ventilator. On Thursday, Montañez tried to give a little back to the many medical staff, because she says she “appreciated the doctors and the nurses that helped me.
Kushner Helped Launch Shell Company That Paid Campaign Funds To Trump Family: Report
A complaint to the Federal Election Commission claims American Made Media Consultants shields the identities of fund recipients.
Why Congress Is Suddenly Fighting About the Federal Reserve
GOP Senators are holding a relief deal hostage in order to kneecap the Fed—and the Biden administration—in a crisis.
FDA authorizes Moderna vaccine for emergency use
On Thursday, an independent FDA advisory panel endorsed use of the shot for people over 18.
Pharmacies’ starring role in vaccine push could create unequal access
Public health experts say a broader mix of vaccination sites is needed to reach as many people as possible.
The Ticket: Jim Clyburn
The Electoral College’s Monday vote to formally make Joe Biden the 46th president caps a weeks-long process of the former vice president having his victory affirmed again and again. But a Biden win, even in the primaries, didn’t always seem like a sure thing.After Biden came in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, his hopes rested on South Carolina. And key to his victory there—and to his ultimately successful candidacy—was an endorsement from Jim Clyburn.
Twitter Users Can’t Believe What Space Force Members Will Be Called
The chosen name reminded many people of both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and “The Handmaid’s Tale.
Fauci, NIH yet to get Covid vaccine despite role developing it
Top infectious disease doctor waits on shot despite being “ready to go.