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 inboxCHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTYThe Trumpian vortex isn’t what it used to be. Weeks after Donald Trump’s defeat, the current is slowing: The president is commanding far less attention in his last weeks of office.That’s not, as my colleague David A.
Trump lost the popular vote to President-elect Joe Biden by 7 million votes and the Electoral College tally by 74 votes.
Updated at 9:46 p.m. ET on December 2, 2020.This article contains spoilers through the series finale of The Undoing.The Sunday finale of The Undoing was the most-watched episode of any HBO show since the last episode of Big Little Lies. The Undoing is a whodunit about the murder of a woman found, by her fourth-grade son, with her décolletage displayed and her face in pieces. Sex sells, according to the old advertising adage. Clearly violence does too.
“If you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in a protest, you can also go to a Christmas party,” President Donald Trump’s press secretary said.
New Mexico’s governor is no longer the favorite to lead the department at the center of Biden’s pandemic response.
As the number of cases of COVID-19 worldwide nears 65 million, and the number of deaths attributed to the disease approaches 1.5 million, many countries are enduring a crushing surge in numbers. The toll on health-care workers, families, and the victims of the disease has been enormous. Gathered below are photographs from around the world of the current battle against COVID-19, taken over the past few weeks.
The president’s freshly pardoned ex-national security adviser retweeted a statement advocating suspending the Constitution.
The majority leader wants to send Americans a big lump of coal.
She’s literally bursting into tears.
He’s come out before. But this time is different.
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne.
For his incoming economic team, President-elect Joe Biden has picked several people associated with the investment giant BlackRock, which has been called “the fourth branch of government.” This includes his choice of Brian Deese, a former adviser to Barack Obama, to be his director of the National Economic Council. Deese was the global head of sustainable investing for BlackRock, which is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $7 trillion in its portfolio.
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic advisers this week, setting the tone for his administration’s recovery plan, including Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress think tank, as head of the Office of Management and Budget.
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
He wants us to spend our little free time together, but I’d rather be on my own.
Parenting advice on unfair discipline, bad words, and college choices.
In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill.
Slate Money talks Janet Yellen, Simon & Schuster, and United Way Worldwide.
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
Joe Biden will emphasize treatment and prevention, not law enforcement, in addressing a drug epidemic that’s only grown more dire during the pandemic.
Different countries are coming up with different answers to that question.
The focus of the initial meeting was on Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics and distribution, said one person familiar with the agenda.
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
We look at the unprecedented five federal executions President Trump’s Department of Justice has scheduled before Inauguration Day, starting with Brandon Bernard on International Human Rights Day and ending with Dustin Higgs on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Four of the people set to die are Black men, and the other is Lisa Montgomery, a severely mentally ill white woman who faced a lifetime of sexual abuse and would be the first woman executed in nearly 70 years.