Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Three weeks ago, the COVID-19 winter surge was well under way and terrifyingly broad. Every day, the Northeast, South, and Midwest were seeing more than 100 deaths per million people, and the West was just shy of that, at 94 per million, with deaths increasing.
In a historic step, The Kansas City Star, one of the most influential newspapers in the Midwest, has apologized for the paper’s racist history. The paper’s top editor, Mike Fannin, admitted the Star and a sister paper had reinforced segregation, Jim Crow laws and redlining, and “robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition” with its biased coverage over many decades.
When Black doctor Susan Moore died from COVID-19 after posting a video from her hospital bed describing racist treatment by medical staff, her chilling message was compared to the video of George Floyd begging for his life as he was killed by Minneapolis police. We speak to two leading Black women doctors fighting racial disparities in healthcare who wrote The Washington Post opinion piece, “Say her name: Dr. Susan Moore.
As the United States reports record deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the final days of 2020, we look at how the pandemic that ravaged the country this year has shone a stark new light on racism in medical care. In a viral video recorded by Black physician Dr. Susan Moore, she describes racist treatment by medical staff at a hospital in Indianapolis and says they did not respond to her pleas for care, despite being in intense pain and being a doctor herself.
On March 6, Levar Stoney, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, released a 2020 budget proposal full of promises. The plan featured more money for education, funds to keep people from being evicted, millions for infrastructure, and a new fund to address racial disparities in maternal health. Twelve days later, Stoney announced Richmond’s first positive cases of COVID-19. The following weeks and months created a budget crisis.
Illustrations by Nicole RifkinIt was September 2019, and I’d been slow-roasting in a small Southern Oregon town for a couple of weeks, waiting on a big one. A wildfire. An opportunity. A chance to prove myself useful and, preferably, profitable. This was the pre-coronavirus era, a simpler time.From the South, I had driven out West in hopes of embedding with workers at a “fire camp,” the catchall phrase used to describe the base of operations during any major wildfire.
The recently revealed SolarWinds hack unfolded like a scene from a horror movie: Victims frantically barricaded the doors, only to discover that the enemy had been hiding inside the house the whole time. For months, intruders have been roaming wild inside the nation’s government networks, nearly all of the Fortune 500, and thousands of other companies and organizations.
Parenting advice on childhood photos, pointless Zooms, and trauma processing.
If he’s willing to do a coup, he’s probably willing to do this.
Boosted unemployment insurance? Check. A continued eviction moratorium? Check. Checks? Check. But there’s still much more that we need.
Some states are shrinking or delaying plans for coverage expansion as they confront a challenging fiscal reality.
Larry Hogan and Gretchen Whitmer say they have few regrets about their handling of the pandemic so far.
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
The president has thrown the fate of the bill into jeopardy.
Congress curbed the central bank’s emergency lending despite the economy’s continuing struggles.
Biden added that the appointees have “broad viewpoints on how to build a stronger and more inclusive middle class.
Officials said they expect the U.S. economy to shrink by 2.4 percent this year, a brighter forecast than they offered just three months ago.
Dozens of immigrant women detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia have joined a class-action lawsuit against ICE over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual and invasive gynecological procedures and surgeries that were later found to be unnecessary, and in some cases left them unable to have children.
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22 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Champe Barton, Brian Freskos, and Daniel Nass at The Trace write—A Historic Surge in Gun Violence Compounds the Traumas of 2020. In over a dozen cities, homicides rose by 50 percent or more this year.
The Republican congressman wondered what the Founding Fathers would say about stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The 41-year-old Louisiana Republican was set to be sworn in next week.
Thousands of Liberian immigrants who are otherwise eligible to apply for permanent status in the U.S. through a law passed last year but faced immense difficulties largely due to intentional sabotaging by the Trump administration will now have one more year to complete the application process.
“Tucked inside the $900 billion spending deal passed by Congress on Dec. 21, 2020 and signed by the president on Dec.
Entrepreneur turned hip-hop mogul Percy “Master P” Miller and former NBA All-Star Baron Davis are in talks to acquire an athletic-wear company that has long profited off of Black entertainers and athletes popularizing the brand. That company, Reebok, which is owned by Adidas, is valued at around $2.4 billion. Miller told ESPN he and Davis are “prepared financially” after months of negotiations with the business.
The prolonged temper tantrum from the squatter in the Oval Office has mucked up critical aid to workers on unemployment, but the Labor Department has released guidance that assures they won’t be cheated out of two weeks of unemployment insurance (UI). Trump delayed signing the bill resuming federal UI supplements of $300/week until the day after those payments expired, leaving millions of people in limbo not knowing if the delay was going to end their UI.
His repeated violations of his agreement not to use the Florida estate as a residence could jeopardize his permit to operate it as a for-profit resort.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is as good an example of the depth and breadth of damage Donald Trump has done to the government as any. Under him, Secretary Sonny Perdue gutted the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture, splitting the agencies up and ripping hundreds of jobs out of Washington, D.C. and forcing employees to either relocate to Kansas City or quit.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tweeted on Tuesday that the Colorado State Laboratory confirmed the case in a man in his 20s, who has no known travel history.
