Suburbia has repeatedly cropped up in the headlines this election season, ever since a more-bizarre-than-usual Donald Trump tweet-pitched to the “Suburban Housewives of America,” pledging to protect them from invasion by evildoers.
Like most things he believes, of course, Trump’s views are divorced from current reality about the suburbs.
Senate Majority PAC announced Thursday that it was booking $8.6 million in Texas to help Democrat MJ Hegar unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn, a big move that makes it the first major outside group to reserve TV time in the priciest state on the 2020 Senate map.
A federal judge put Trump administration officials through the wringer this week, calling them liars and ordering them to start reducing the detainee population at a notorious immigration prison devastated by the novel coronavirus pandemic by at least 50 people per day. The judge first issued a ruling in April, but the administration has fought it as more at the notorious California prison have gotten sick.
Debates haven’t gone so well for some of the Republican senators facing tough challenges this year—see Ernst, Joni—and one Republican who isn’t supposed to have a hard time has decided not to give herself the chance to screw up. Mississippi’s Cindy Hyde-Smith is refusing to debate Democrat Mike Espy.
He “cannot solve the nation’s pressing problems because he is the nation’s most pressing problem,” declares a blunt editorial.
“Ka-MA-la, KA-ma-la, Kamala-mala-mala. I don’t know, whatever,” said Perdue, who’s been her colleague in the Senate for years.
It’s a policy reversal from a presidency that helps red states and harms blue ones.
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.EVAN VUCCI / APLast night, President Donald Trump was given the opportunity to denounce QAnon outright. He didn’t.As my colleague Russell Berman writes, that news is shocking but not surprising.
Covid isn’t just disproportionately killing people of color; it’s sticking them in a feedback loop that exacerbates economic and racial inequity, says Chicago economist Damon Jones.
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani gave The New York Post emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. But it’s still unclear if they’re real or if they were hacked.
“I wish he would he would smile more and talk less,” Paulette Dale said.
Government spending exceeded more than $6.5 trillion in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, up from $4.4 trillion in fiscal 2019.
“I thought it was a very poor set of hearings,” the California congresswoman said.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a courtroom drama where no one—neither the characters, nor the viewers—expects that justice will be done. When the defendants take their seats at the start of Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film, the audience already knows that the charges against them are ludicrous and the result of a political vendetta.
Many Americans have relied on the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic, but an upcoming Supreme Court case may invalidate it. With worries about the ACA looming over Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, staff writer James Hamblin and executive producer Katherine Wells are joined on the podcast Social Distance by Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
There won’t be a coronavirus vaccine ready before Election Day, despite President Donald Trump’s repeated promises and vaccine makers’ breakneck speed.
Two national pharmacy chains will administer an eventual coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups.
Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.This week she talks with two elementary-school teachers, both in their 16th year of teaching. They have been friends since the beginning of their careers, but they’ve never faced a school year like this one.
Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender. (Jack Delano / Library of Congress)Throughout the summer of 1916, “tired of being kicked and cursed,” tens of thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the North in hopes of a better life—inspired in no small part by the nation’s leading Black newspaper, The Chicago Defender.The paper printed accounts of horrific murders by lynching, and demanded federal military intervention to stop the killings.
The move by Pfizer continues the company’s push to publicly distance itself from the presidential race.
During confirmation hearings this week for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island opted not to ask the judge any questions. Instead, he gave a 30-minute presentation on how right-wing groups, including the Federalist Society and Judicial Crisis Network, use dark money to shape the nation’s judiciary.
“I think we should be even more affirmative about it,” the former New Jersey governor said.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony this week from Crystal Good, who spoke about her experience of having an abortion and expressed concerns that Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court would limit access to safe, affordable care. During three days of hearings, Judge Barrett has repeatedly refused to answer questions about her views on abortion and the future of Roe v. Wade, despite her public record opposing reproductive rights.
The Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett ended Thursday with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee scheduling a vote on her nomination for October 22, with a full Senate vote to follow shortly thereafter — less than two weeks before the presidential election, in which the Supreme Court could play a decisive role.
Parenting advice on sibling sadness, gift overload, and neighborhood bullying.
The political backdrop could make the first coronavirus gathering of the advisory committee one of the most-watched in FDA history.
The Trump administration’s logic for ending the count early obscures that it may be rife with inaccuracies.
There’s no better time than now.
