“Immunoprivilege” During a Pandemic Is As Dangerous As the Disease
When yellow fever ravaged 19th-century New Orleans, wealthy white people who “acclimated” were rewarded. Everyone else was out of luck.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Smacks Down ‘Veep’ Comparisons Of Trump’s Axios Video
The comparisons weren’t lost on the actress, though she wished that wasn’t the case.
Photos: Massive Explosion Hits Beirut Port
On August 4, a fire in a structure near the port area of Beirut, Lebanon, led to an enormous explosion that shook the city. The shockwave from the blast destroyed buildings close by and shattered glass for miles around, causing at least 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries, according to reporting from Reuters. The exact cause of the fire and explosion has yet to be determined. Below are some early images from the aftermath in Beirut.
A Plan to Grow 90,000 Trees in Los Angeles
What is the most effective thing an individual can do about climate change? There are lots of possible answers: what you eat, how you vote, where and how you live, how you travel, and so on. Every one of them matters. For Americans, at this moment, the one that matters most may be how you vote.But among the steps most immediately within many people’s control, an important one is planting trees. Yes, there interview.
Twitter Users Mock Trump For Mispronouncing Yosemite
The president accidentally turned the name of the famous national park into an ethnic reference.
The Surprising Legacy of Inception, 10 Years Later
A year after the release of his 2010 film, Inception, Christopher Nolan invited some of the movie industry’s most prominent directors—Michael Bay, Jon Favreau, Edgar Wright, and others—to a special screening in Los Angeles. He treated them to the first six minutes of his next film, The Dark Knight Rises, on an IMAX screen, the huge canvas that had become a trademark for Nolan’s movies.
The Families of ISIS’s Victims Are Asking for Justice
Politics is usually about compromise, so we should savor those rare policy decisions for which every consideration—justice, morality, practicality—is neatly aligned. The Trump administration has a chance this week to reverse itself and get one such decision right. There are indications that it will.The underlying facts offer little to savor. The Islamic State kidnapped and murdered four Americans in 2014 and 2015.
Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants
In Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided the medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths and detained 30 migrants whose whereabouts are now unknown. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching Sonoran Desert.
“It’s Basically a Death Sentence”: Hunger Strikers Demand Release as Virus Surges in ICE Jails
People being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails are holding work strikes and hunger strikes over the lack of access to personal protective equipment or quality medical care, and to demand their release. We speak with Joe Mejia, an asylum seeker who was among a group of prisoners at Yuba County Jail in California who led a hunger strike while he was held there for nearly 11 months. “That place is dangerous,” Mejia says.
“Release Them All”: Calls Grow to Stop Jailing Immigrants as Transfers & Deportations Spread COVID
The U.S. government continues to hold tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants in detention centers and jails, ignoring the advice of medical experts as the coronavirus continues to spread. ICE has also continued to transfer and deport people — including those who are infected — making it a global superspreader.
Public Health vs. Politics: White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States
As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the pandemic. This continues months after President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a White House task force with the goal of establishing a national testing plan.
Should Parents Redshirt Their Kindergarten-Age Kids Until In-Person School Is Safe?
Should parents hold their kindergarten-age kids back until things are safe and they can experience a typical introduction to school?
Help! My Partner Orders Off the Kids’ Menu When We Eat Out.
“I’ve started dreading eating with him anywhere that’s not our home.
The Immersive Sounds of Audio Drama
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
Can You Really Get a Raise Right Now? A Negotiation Expert Says Do This One Thing.
You don’t need to be the most aggressive person in the room to win.
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.
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.
Oprah launches a massive #OWNYourVote campaign
Oprah Winfrey has launched a powerful #OWNYourVote campaign geared toward Black women, kicking off a series of events and actions in the run-up to the critical elections in November and beyond with a powerful video.
The video is a montage of images of women from civil rights movement history; women taking to the streets; and women marching and standing with family.