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The New David Copperfield Movie Might Be Better Than the Book
Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; Fox Searchlight Pictures; GettyThe child and the writer are born at the same moment, to the same mother, each to his separate destiny. The child’s is to see everything, feel everything, be everything, and live in the scraps and sparks of language by which he understands everything; the writer’s is to wait, and hide, and grow, until the day when he steps in—pen in hand—to take possession.
Venus of Willendorf
Photo illustration by Miki LoweYusef Komunyakaa’s love for poetry began with his grandparents. They were dedicated churchgoers, and he’s said that “the Old Testament informed the cadences of their speech.” Komunyakaa spent his childhood at home in Louisiana, reading and rereading the Bible—and listening to jazz and blues on the wooden radio in his mother’s living room.
Dear Care and Feeding: I Want to Keep My Newborn Healthy. How Do I Determine Who Can Visit?
Parenting advice on newborn visitation, the return to school, and college majors.
Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
Bring on Trump’s Half-Baked Executive Orders
Two of the president’s ideas are useless, and none will rescue the economy. But some could actually help.
We’re Officially Living Through a Drunken-Square-Root Recovery
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
What Democrats Have to Do to Save the Postal Service in Time for the Election
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
Poll: Voters much more likely to trust family, Fauci than Trump on vaccine
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump signs order aimed at boosting rural health care, telehealth
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Vaccine project contract raises transparency questions
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
Why That Falwell Jr. Yacht Photo Was the Final Straw
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
The Roving Evangelical Preacher Who Travels From One Site of Racial Unrest to Another
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.
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The Frieling Double Wall Stainless Steel French Press is more than 20 percent off.
Trump’s economic comeback is becoming a slowdown and likely a stall-out
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
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.
“The World’s Most Dangerous Man”: Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak,” says Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, a clinical psychologist and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood.
“The Beginning of Our End”: On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.
Cartoon: the protest pundit
Order my new book, We Should Improve Society Somewhat, 184 pages of political cartoons on the last few years of our dystopian world!
Trump Using COVID-19 As A Cover To Gut Social Security And Medicare, Critics Charge
Americans were looking for “relief,” instead the president promised to defund Social Security and Medicare, said a Florida lawmaker.
3 of the 4 ‘executive orders’ Trump signed weren’t actually executive orders
If you didn’t know, Donald Trump is golfing and hanging out with rich people in New Jersey this weekend, so of course, high on flattery, he’s holding media events. Saturday’s press conference took Trump away from the links for less than half an hour, ending abruptly when a CBS News reporter challenged the impeached president on one of his favorite falsehoods.
A blueprint for an ultra-partisan, progressive Biden presidency that keeps the Democrats in charge
MIT’s emeritus professor Noam Chomsky once described the Republican Party as “the most dangerous organization in human history.” Saturday’s issue of The New York Times confirms it, as one story offers a glimpse of how dismal this moment in time is for millions of Americans whose lives are now hanging by a slender thread, thanks to the deliberate action (or in this case inaction) of Senate Republicans.