Three months ago, a global pandemic and a sudden economic crisis looked grave enough to suggest that something—if not a revolution, then at least the stirrings of a revolutionary era—was under way. Since then, the revolt against the pre-coronavirus status quo has only gained force. Crowds chanting “Black lives matter” and “Enough is enough” have marched all across the country.
On a warm November day in 2017, Representative Mark Takano, a California Democrat, met with a whistleblower who had serious concerns about the 270-bed Veterans Affairs facility in Loma Linda. Later that day, Takano took a tour of the hospital, and was shocked by what he saw. Grime encrusted the water fountains; the floors of the operating room were noticeably dirty.
W. E. B. Du Bois was torn between hope and rage. Following the First World War, challenges to colonialism in Africa and Asia, revolutionary labor movements, demands for women’s rights and universal suffrage, and the growth of what would become the modern Black freedom struggle portended a new, radical future. However, the harsh realities of imperial conquest, capitalist exploitation, the subordination of women, and horrific racial violence remained firmly intact. Black people fought back.
They can’t trust the GOP not to sabotage efforts to help Americans, so they’re trying to do something about it.
They’re even voting for it in Oklahoma.
Senators questioned top Trump public health officials at a Thursday hearing on vaccine pricing.
Federal officials may defer to the National Academy of Medicine.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ vote with the court’s liberal judges to overturn the Louisiana law wasn’t the win for abortion rights advocates that many assumed.
The resurgence of Covid-19 was preventable, but the country’s rush to end shutdowns triggered disaster.
“It is absolutely correct that some labs across the country are reaching or near capacity,” Giroir said Wednesday.
Plus: How to best support a pre-teen who recently came out to his parents as trans.
Champion Sports’ model is now almost 25 percent off.
She has $100,000 in loans from a master’s program that kicked her out.
An extension would give taxpayers until Oct. 15 to file their returns, though they would still have to pay what they owe by July 15.
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The U.S. Army says it has a suspect in custody in connection with the disappearance of Vanessa Guillén, a missing 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier whose family says her remains were likely found in a shallow grave near the Texas Army base. A second suspect in the case — a soldier who the Guillén family lawyer named as Aaron Robinson — killed himself in Killeen, Texas, as officers approached.
Amid a mass uprising against racism and state violence, social movements are not just fighting hostility and backlash from President Trump, but also dealing with a “Biden problem,” according to historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby. “I think it’s fair to say that Joe Biden is not our dream candidate, by any means,” she says. “We should be critical of Joe Biden. We should be ready to hold Joe Biden accountable come January.
There was no social distancing — and few masks — in the Mount Rushmore crowd as the president ignored the public health crisis consuming the country.
One of the grand tricks the telecom industry was able to achieve by getting its henchman, Ajit Pai, into the majority chairman position in the FCC was to kill net neutrality protections. The most special part of this was Pai’s argument that the FCC did not have the power to enforce, and should not have the power to enforce, any regulations on the telecommunications landscape.
The judge from an ongoing lawsuit demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release detainees amid the novel coronavirus pandemic has made public pages of handwritten letters from immigrants detained at a number of Florida facilities, who in their own heart-wrenching words say they fear for their lives under ICE’s watch.
Only days ago, Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence attended a rally in a Dallas, Texas, megachurch packed with over 2,000 people.
A white Michigan woman who reportedly bumped into a Black teen was shown on viral video pulling out a pistol on the child’s mother in an encounter Wednesday evening that led to assault charges for the armed woman and a man she was with. The encounter began when the child identified by The Detroit News as Makayla Green asked the woman to apologize for bumping into her outside of a Chipotle restaurant about 40 miles northwest of Detroit in Orion Township.
Still the best history lesson on the founding of our country I’ve seen. In fact, it’s certified “100% Texas School Board approved”:
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Our annual posting of the original Cheers and Jeers from July 4, 1776—discovered gathering dust and mold behind some rotten drywall at the farm of Phinneas Pawpatch on July 5, 1776—starts below the ye olde folde.
“They don’t deserve to wear a badge anymore,” Aurora’s interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said.
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.OLIVER MUNDAYThis is an awkward moment to be celebrating America. The past few months showed a great power in decay, struggling to contain a deadly pandemic and reckoning anew with its racist systems.As such, many Americans may hesitate to drape themselves in red, white, and blue.
