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.SHUTTERSTOCK / THE ATLANTICThe four tech CEOs testifying before the House antitrust subcommittee today appeared, fittingly, in digital form only.
“It’d be a good move for Republicans,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said when asked about President Obama’s former national security adviser.
Members of America’s Frontline Doctors group stated that they discussed the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine with the vice president.
Parenting advice on creepy phases, Olympic dreams, and biology vs. adoption.
His administration has overturned a rule intended to fight racial segregation, Trump boasted on Twitter.
On July 30, NASA is set to launch a car-sized rover named Perseverance and a robotic helicopter named Ingenuity to the planet Mars, to search for signs of past microbial life and examine the Martian climate and geology in an area known as Jezero crater. If all goes according to schedule, the Mars 2020 mission will land its robotic explorers on Mars on February 18, 2021, after six and a half months of travel time.
Across the country, schools have outlined the precautions they’ll take as they reopen their campuses this fall. If and when kids return, schools are planning outdoor “mask breaks” in Denver, one-way hallways in Northern Virginia, and shortened in-person school weeks in New York City, among many, many other safeguards against coronavirus outbreaks.Included in these reopening plans are a number of measures whose implementation will fall to students themselves.
Everyone is home all the time, and we’re going crazy!
We revisit civil rights leader and Congressmember John Lewis’s early years of activism with Bernard Lafayette, one of Lewis’s closest friends and collaborators. Lafayette participated with Lewis in the first Freedom Rides of 1961 as they attempted to integrate buses and faced brutal beatings by white mobs, and was a fellow leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
We look at the life and legacy of late civil rights icon and Georgia Congressmember John Lewis, who is being mourned across the U.S. and who became the first Black politician to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. “The irony of this moment is that even as we celebrate and honor John Lewis, the patron saint of voting rights, he hailed from the state which in many instances is ground zero for voter suppression,” says Rev. Dr.
We play highlights from Attorney General William Barr’s grilling by the House Judiciary Committee over how he sent militarized federal forces to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, and his opposition to voting by mail, and get response from a close friend of Congressmember John Lewis who is now running for Senate.
Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com.Dear Dr. Hamblin,My grandmother recently lost her husband and son, and was in a car accident that broke her hip and back. Because she has significant hearing and vision loss, she was told she would never be able to drive again.
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
Amid a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism, we speak with Princeton African American studies professor Eddie Glaude, whose new book on James Baldwin offers lessons from the iconic writer for the present. Baldwin, says Glaude, insisted that “we put aside the myths and illusions and understand what white supremacy has done in terms of disfiguring and distorting the character of this nation.
One week after news outlets hailed Donald Trump’s pivot to a new, more sober tone on the coronavirus, Trump literally fled the briefing room Tuesday over tough questioning about his promotion of a video of doctors making false Covid-19 claims.
“It can only be my personality, that’s all,” Trump said at a news conference where he lamented his plunging popularity.
During a question and answer session on Tuesday afternoon, Joe Biden let reporters know that his selection of a vice-presidential candidate is imminent. “I’m going to have a choice the first week in August and I promise, I’ll let you know when I do,” said Biden.
