Bill Gates: CDC’s COVID-19 Response Was ‘Muzzled’ By White House
“I would have expected them to do better,” said the Microsoft co-founder, who has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to coronavirus vaccine research.
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The Amazing Disappearing Election
Over the past six months, it has seemed like every news story is about the coronavirus, or President Donald Trump’s failed response to it. It’s been a challenge for even crucial issues like racial justice and police violence to break into the media agenda for more than a few days at a time.
The Books Briefing: The Writers Who Don’t Work Alone
Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? A definitive statement of authorship may be hard to come by, but evidence suggests that the bard did not write alone. He co-wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen with his contemporary John Fletcher, and collaborations with actors, playwrights, and others likely informed his other works.
Upgrade Your Coffee Game With This French Press, Now on Sale
The Frieling Double Wall Stainless Steel French Press is more than 20 percent off.
We’re Officially Living Through a Drunken-Square-Root Recovery
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
“The World’s Most Dangerous Man”: Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak,” says Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, a clinical psychologist and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Dear Care and Feeding: We Let Our Kids Go Feral During Quarantine. Can We Bring Back Discipline Now?
Parenting advice on quarantine discipline, violent toddlers, and fertility check-ins.
The Immersive Sounds of Audio Drama
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
Can You Really Get a Raise Right Now? A Negotiation Expert Says Do This One Thing.
You don’t need to be the most aggressive person in the room to win.
The Salmon Family’s Unusual Legacy
Generational wealth as seen through one family’s financial history.
Poll: Voters much more likely to trust family, Fauci than Trump on vaccine
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump signs order aimed at boosting rural health care, telehealth
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Vaccine project contract raises transparency questions
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
U.S. government awards $2.1B to Sanofi-GSK coronavirus vaccine
The government initiative aims to provide 300 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine by January 2021.
Landmark Fed business rescue struggles amid economy’s woes
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
Coronavirus’ lost generation
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
The End of Big Tech? Calls Grow to Break Up Facebook, Amazon for “Mob-Like” Behavior, Monopoly Power
Calls are growing to break up the Big Tech giants, with a handful of companies controlling more and more of the technology industry, crowding out or acquiring would-be competitors and exercising vast power over the U.S. economy. Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook during a hearing last week on whether their companies are guilty of stifling competition, in a scene reminiscent of the 1994 hearing of tobacco executives who claimed cigarettes were not addictive.
Journalist Rami Khouri: Beirut Explosion Follows Years of Lebanese Gov’t Incompetence & Corruption
The explosion in the Port of Beirut, which killed at least 100 people and injured about 4,000 others, is the latest blow to Lebanon, which already faces an economic, political and public health crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. The blast is believed to have been triggered by 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate inexplicably left unattended in a warehouse for six years.
Photos of the Week: Ribblehead Viaduct, Lobster Party, Dragon Splashdown
Back to school in Georgia, a raccoon on the mike in California, Highland cattle in Scotland, damage after the explosion in Beirut, a pyrocumulus cloud in California, a bunker shot in England, rafts in a Chinese water park, flooding in Sudan, huge walls in Croatia, cooling in a pool in Spain, and much more.
Obama’s eulogy of John Lewis—and the right-wing response to it—highlight the power of his legacy
We must “study and learn the lessons of history.” That’s what the late Rep. John Lewis ordered us to do in the final published remarks of his truly heroic career. President Barack Obama, in his final words to his longtime friend, honored that command.
Bride in viral video moments before Beirut blast in Lebanon attended to victims in wedding dress
In what started off as a day of celebration, a viral video depicts a bride in Lebanon posing for a wedding shoot moments before a massive explosion in Beirut killed at least 135 and injured thousands. Seconds into the video, a loud blast can be heard during which the wedding photographer, identified as Mahmoud Nakib, turns to show the increasing damage, smoke-filled air, and people running for safety. But instead of thinking of herself, the viral video’s bride Dr.
Reality Winner’s Mom Says Daughter Got COVID-19 As Convicted Trump Aides Went Free
Former Trump aides are out of prison during the pandemic, while the woman who leaked information about Russian election interference is still behind bars.
Pandemic parenting is hard. Don’t try to gaslight us about how hard
The pandemic, with its shutdowns and kids home from school, is hitting working mothers hard. When kids are home, the burden falls on women in the vast majority of families, and many women are being forced to scale back at work, leave their jobs, or take on serious new stresses. It’s something that many experts warn could be a generational setback for women in the workforce.
This Week in Statehouse Action: Hurricane You Dig It edition
Whether or not you weathered the weather that Hurricane Isaias flung at big chunks of the eastern seaboard this week, metaphorical storms continue to rage everywhere.
Amid this, a number of states also held their primary elections.
One of those states was Arizona, which is a pretty good excuse to highlight its House and Senate in this week’s installation of my multi-part look at top legislative chamber targets this fall.
Fox Host Puts Kellyanne Conway In The Hot Seat Over Trump’s COVID-19 Mistruths
Children are not “nearly immune” to the coronavirus, Sandra Smith told her guest.
The Atlantic Daily: What Will Happen to Social Life This Winter?
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.(BRIAN L. FRANK / THE NEW YORK TIMES / NIH / THE ATLANTIC)This pandemic was once counted in weeks, then months; now we measure time in seasons, and hope that doesn’t slip into years.
Pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico profit from COVID-19 as Puerto Ricans suffer
As the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Puerto Rico, one of the ironies of the situation on the island is that, though Puerto Rico is home to 12 of the world’s 20 top-grossing pharmaceutical companies, several of whom manufacture COVID-19 tests and reagents, they aren’t being readily supplied to Puerto Ricans.