Greetings from Northern California, where we just had a weekend of warm, dry weather—which means we are vulnerable to disastrous wildfires.
Indeed, a new fire just started on Sunday in Santa Rosa, only about an hour north of where I live. And we are all nervously eyeing what may happen next.
This has been the worst season for wildfires on the West Coast, ever. Climate change is here, and the effects will get worse.
Nationwide protests have continued for months in efforts to spread awareness of consistent police brutality and racial injustice in the country. Following the heartbreaking grand jury decision to not pursue charges against the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, protests erupted across the country this week. While an overwhelming majority of these protests are peaceful, police-initiated violence on demonstrators and bystanders of these movements continue to be shared on social media.
The very imaginative posts may be closer to the truth than many would care to admit.
Wilbur Ross announced the end of the census despite a federal judge’s ruling that it should continue through the end of October.
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.DREW ANGERER / GETTYOver the weekend, a key piece of the president’s self-mythology crumbled, when The New York Times published a damning report on Trump’s tax returns.
Trump’s tax returns highlight just how much he needs to stay in office to avoid possible prosecution and mountains of debt.
Trump characteristically pushed tax-avoidance strategies to the limit, perhaps to the breaking point.
The first shipments, totaling 6.5 million tests, will be sent this week, and the amount each state receives will be based on population data.
In his new book, “Wicked Game,” Trump’s former deputy campaign manager wrote that the president even polled the idea twice.
Of course, she isn’t doing anything to improve the situation, like volunteering or donating money.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. On the day that a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, a vast logistics operation will need to awaken. Millions of doses must travel hundreds of miles from manufacturers to hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies, which in turn must store, track, and eventually get the vaccines to people all across the country.
Thousands of residents have evacuated ahead of fast-moving wildfires that erupted over the weekend in California’s Napa County. The Glass Fire and Shady Fire grew quickly, invading wine country and destroying homes and vineyards. Much of Northern California remains under a red flag warning for the next 24 hours. Gathered here are images of the fires from the weekend, in a state already coping with multiple disasters.
This is never going to change about me.
When voters say they want politicians to run the government like a business, they should stipulate which business. Surely not the Trump Organization. A blockbuster New York Times report yesterday suggested that either the president’s real-estate empire is a boondoggle that’s losing millions of dollars a year, or it’s a massive tax-avoidance scheme. (Or perhaps it’s some of both.
Miranda July’s cinematic output has always been concerned with human connection. Her first two features, 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know and 2011’s The Future, are crucial tales of generational malaise in a diffuse, internet-dominated culture.
We speak with Vice News correspondent Roberto Ferdman about new body camera footage he obtained from the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville in March, which has raised troubling questions about the integrity of the crime scene, and the investigation that followed.
President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court could threaten reproductive rights across the U.S., according to Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. Barrett, who once called abortion “always immoral,” would give conservatives a decisive 6-3 advantage on the top court if she is confirmed by the Senate, and President Trump has openly promoted her nomination by suggesting she would help overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v.
As President Trump nominates conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, we look at how an emboldened 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court could dramatically loosen gun laws, hurt immigrant communities and play a possibly central role in deciding a close presidential election. “Her religious conservatism is not what’s extreme about her.
In a bombshell report a month before November’s presidential election, The New York Times reveals Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the last 15 years, and just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017. “We don’t have to just take his word for the fact that he paid lots of taxes.
Parenting advice on bossy moms, good cries, and “I wish gloves.
America is very good at tracking when people buy homes—and terrible at tracking how many are booted from them.
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
It turned ordinary neighborhoods into tourist destinations, and ordinary people into backdoor innkeepers.
The state’s power brokers are so afraid of the impoverished 1970s that they’re inadvertently bringing them back.
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
