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The Salmon Family’s Unusual Legacy
Generational wealth as seen through one family’s financial history.
The Extremely Boring Idea That Could Save the Economy
Automatic stabilizers: learn them, live them, love them.
Everything, Um, Unusual About Kodak’s Trump-Assisted Pivot to Pharmaceuticals
Two years ago, the camera maker got into cryptocurrency.
Vaccine project contract raises transparency questions
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
U.S. government awards $2.1B to Sanofi-GSK coronavirus vaccine
The government initiative aims to provide 300 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine by January 2021.
‘This is health care moonshot time’: Pandemic pulls Biden, Dems further left
Progressives are insisting the party embrace “Medicare for All” in grim times.
30,000 Americans receive Covid-19 vaccine in major test
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
Trump’s fragmented pandemic response may undermine push to address racial disparities
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
Help! My Friend Ran His Bar Into the Ground. Now He Wants to Open a New One.
The stress nearly killed him, and he was a very mean person with a short temper.
Keep Schools Closed and Pay Parents to Be Full-Time Caregivers
The government could ease this fall’s child care crisis and fight COVID with one simple trick.
Help! I Don’t Want to Postpone My Wedding Again.
How can I convince my fiancé we shouldn’t live in fear and that we should just have fun and celebrate our love already?
Landmark Fed business rescue struggles amid economy’s woes
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
Coronavirus’ lost generation
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
U.S. suffered worst quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy
When the economy was tumbling in the second quarter, Trump pumped up the third quarter. Now the high hopes are slowly deflating.
40 million Americans face student loan cliff
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
Barack Obama: Honor John Lewis by Renewing Voting Rights Act & Ballot Access in the U.S.
In his stirring eulogy at the funeral service for Congressmember John Lewis, President Barack Obama said expanded voting rights would be the greatest way to honor the civil rights icon’s legacy. In a speech that condemned the status of American democracy without ever naming the sitting president, Obama called for election day to be declared a national holiday, full Congressional representation for Washington, D.C.
Rev. James Lawson: John Lewis’s Life Is Call to Action Against U.S. Violence & Plantation Capitalism
As mourners gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to honor the life of Georgia Congressmember John Lewis, among those who spoke was civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson, who helped to train John Lewis in nonviolence when Lewis was a student in Nashville. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once described Rev. Lawson as “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” Lawson invoked John Lewis’s life as a call to action.
Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Remembered at Funeral as “Patriot Who Risked His Life” for Democracy
As family, friends and dignitaries paid their final respects at the Atlanta funeral of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and 17-term Georgia congressmember was remembered as a singular force for equality and justice. The funeral took place at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, once led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where senior pastor Rev.
Chomsky on Israel’s Hindering of Palestinian Pandemic Response & Threat to Annex Occupied West Bank
Noam Chomsky says Israel’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank “basically formalizes” what has already been official policy over the last half-century, from both left-wing and right-wing parties in Israel. He compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to anti-immigrant policies in the United States, and says the main goal of annexation is to take over as much territory while excluding its Palestinian inhabitants.
White House Not Optimistic On Near-Term Deal For Coronavirus Relief Bill
Lawmakers and the White House have been unable to reach an accord for a next round of economic relief from the pandemic.
Navy SEALS Investigate Video Of Dogs Attacking Colin Kaepernick Stand-In
The video, posted in 2019, shows military dogs attacking a man in Colin Kaepernick’s San Francisco 49ers jersey during an event at the Navy SEAL Museum.
‘My flag has 50 stars,’ Black woman tells beachgoers displaying Confederate flag
When LaShandra Smith-Rayfield saw a picture circulating on social media of a group of white people with a Confederate flag beach towel hanging on a fence behind them at her local beach in Evanston, Illinois, she decided to go check it out. When she found the group, still with their symbol of hate hanging proudly behind them, it turned into a roughly 10-minute standoff that’s gotten more than 143,000 views on Facebook within a day.
Trump’s Broken Promises On Healthcare Called Out In Stinging New Ad
“Trump has no plan. Never has. Never will,” the spot from progressive PAC MeidasTouch says.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside the Democratic Party—Excitement? Exhaustion?
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. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Asked whether Trump wants election delayed, will accept foreign help, Trump team refuses to say
It was another typical day on the Sunday shows, the place where America’s most powerful people congregate to, for the most part, brazenly lie to us. Today’s version came with one thing that the Trump team Very Much wants to talk about—banning social media app TikTok—and several they very much did not.
‘We knew it was a when, not if’: Indiana school gets positive COVID-19 case hours after reopening
As schools grapple with the pressure of President Donald Trump’s threat to reopen or else, one Indiana public school became one of the first in the nation to actually do so last week. And the end result was that doors weren’t open 24 hours before a positive coronavirus case was reported.
Clock Is Ticking On Trump Comeback As Early Voting Nears
Trump’s aides are worried that the president’s 2020 re-election campaign is starting to run out of time.
All those pandemic pay cuts America’s top executives were taking? Eh, not so much
As the economy reels from the effects of ongoing pandemic bungling, you may be wondering how America’s valuable and important corporate executives are doing during these trying days.
Fine. They’re doing just fine.
A new survey reported by the The New York Times shows that few public companies have cut executive pay during the pandemic and it’s resulting massive layoffs.