William Barr Briefed Trump On Probe Over Discarded Pennsylvania Ballots: Report
The Justice Department is facing criticism for publicizing an ongoing investigation to Trump’s benefit.
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Donald Trump’s Scheme to Bribe Seniors With $200 Gift Cards Is Not Obviously Legal
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
My Wife’s Wild Sexual Past Is Now Haunting Me in More Ways Than One
I’m now convinced this may be a reason not to be so promiscuous in younger years.
My Family Got COVID in March. Six Months Later, I’m Just Beginning to Walk Again.
Being a “long-hauler” has changed everything, especially the way I parent.
Disclosure Doesn’t Work on a Shameless President
Again and again, President Donald Trump has violated, evaded, or ignored the law. The Constitution says a president cannot accept payments from foreign governments, but Trump did. The Constitution says that the principal officers of executive departments—members of the Cabinet—must be confirmed by the Senate. Trump junked that rule too, relying instead on his power to appoint temporary acting officials.
The Books Briefing: The Lives Behind the Legal Decisions
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last Friday, attracted a fandom like no Supreme Court justice before her. Halloween costumes, Tumblr accounts, films (such as On the Basis of Sex), and books (including Notorious RBG) cemented her cult of personality. For such a rule-following legal figure (carefully rendered by Jane Sherron De Hart in the biography Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life), this meme-ified public image can seem perplexing.
Listen: How Bad Will Winter Get?
Experts have long feared that the virus will peak again in winter. The days are now getting shorter, life is moving indoors, and the pandemic isn’t contained. How bad could the next few months get?Katherine Wells wants to know what to expect and how to prepare. She was joined at a live Atlantic Festival taping of Social Distance by her co-host, staff writer James Hamblin, and Alexis Madrigal, staff writer and co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.
“Without Love, We Won’t Make It”: Bishop Michael Curry on Faith & What’s at Stake in November
We speak with Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first African American to lead the denomination, about systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2020 election and President Trump’s use of faith as a political prop. “The church must not be used for partisan political purposes,” Curry says. “The faith, the Christian faith, is not up for sale.
Bernie Sanders on How to Block Trump from Stealing Election & Preserve American Democracy
In an address to the country, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has issued a stark warning about the threat posed by President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the November election. Trump, who has made spurious claims of voter fraud and election-rigging against Democrats for months, recently ramped up his efforts to discredit the election results by suggesting he will refuse to concede if he loses.
“The Election That Could Break America”: Inside How Trump & GOP Could Steal the Vote
As President Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman, whose latest piece in The Atlantic looks at how Trump could subvert the election results and stay in power even if he loses to Joe Biden. “Trump’s strategy is never to concede. He may win, he may lose, but under no circumstances will he concede this election,” says Gellman.
Help! My Friend’s Husband Reads All Our Private Texts.
Apparently they have an open phone policy where either spouse can go through the other’s phone.
Overnight Billionaires: Airbnb
It turned ordinary neighborhoods into tourist destinations, and ordinary people into backdoor innkeepers.
COVID Didn’t Destroy New York City. Austerity Just Might.
The state’s power brokers are so afraid of the impoverished 1970s that they’re inadvertently bringing them back.
How Harley-Davidson Went From Trump’s Favorite Motorcycle to an American Pariah
The once-favored ride of stunt performers, tattooed boomers, and cinephiles is now on a road to nowhere.
Chuck Schumer Is Good Now
Mr. Centrism is now behind legalized weed, mass student debt forgiveness, and the Green New Deal.
What Happened When I Tried to Short the Dow
And why a financial services industry built around optimism can’t stand a pessimist like me.
Grind Your Way to Deliciousness With This Mortar and Pestle, Now on Sale
This heavy, granite version is great for everything from spices to pesto.
Dear Care and Feeding: We’re Raising Our Daughter Gender-Neutral, but She Only Wants Pink Dresses
Parenting advice on pink dresses, misleading projects, and confused names.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
Fed expects to keep rates near zero through 2023
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
Businesses reject Trump payroll tax plan while postponing their own tax bills
Tens of thousands have taken advantage of provisions allowing employers to punt their payroll tax bills into next year and beyond.
25 years wiped out in 25 weeks: Pandemic sets the world back decades
Progress on global health and the worldwide economy has regressed, Gates Foundation report finds.
No Más Bebés: ICE Hysterectomy Scandal Recalls 1970s LA, When a Hospital Sterilized Chicana Patients
As immigration authorities say they have stopped sending women to a Georgia gynecologist accused of sterilizing female prisoners without their consent, we continue our look at United States’ disturbing history of forced sterilization with the producer and historian behind the 2016 documentary called “No Más Bebés,” which tells the story of how a whistleblower doctor spoke out about a large number of tubal ligations performed on mostly Latinx patients at the Los
People of Praise: Former Member of Group Tied to SCOTUS Front-Runner Amy Barrett Calls It a “Cult”
As President Trump appears poised to announce a nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, we speak with a former member of the secretive Catholic group People of Praise, known for its rigid gender roles and lifelong loyalty oaths, which apparent front-runner Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a member of.
Photos of the Week: Wishing Moons, Runway Swim, Shawnee Sunset
Autumn colors in Wales, a ripple maze in Taiwan, “picture day” at a Connecticut school, a funnel cloud in Spain, protests in Kentucky, a socially-distanced beauty pageant in Venezuela, flowers among high-rises in South Korea, surfing in South Africa, and much more.
Thursday Night Owls: FinCEN files show how ineffective our supposed financial watchdogs are
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
At The Guardian, Tom Burgis writes—What $2 trillion in possible corrupt activity reveals about Kleptopia:
[…] This week we’ve caught a fresh glimpse of Kleptopia. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the FinCEN files, details of more than 2,000 leaked suspicious activity reports that banks had filed to the US Treasury.
Summer melt season shrinks Arctic sea ice to second-lowest level in satellite record
In the spring of 2004, freelance adventurer Ben Saunders, then just 26 years old, had to give up his attempt to make a solo trip across the North Pole from Cape Artichevsky in Siberia to Canada. He set out on skis March 5 and reached the pole on May 11. But 72 days after starting out, he had to be rescued about 30 miles from Canada because open water blocked his way.
Ex-Trump Adviser On President’s Election Comments: ‘Our Founders Feared’ This
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster weighed in on Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the November election.