Biden Blasts Trump As U.S. COVID-19 Cases Mount And Pence Staff Endures Outbreak
The United States in the past two days has registered its highest number of new COVID-19 cases – about 84,000 on Friday and about 79,900 on Saturday.
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The Atlantic Daily: How to Not Go Crazy the Week Before an Election
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.GETTY / THE ATLANTICWelcome to the great wait. The 2020 election is now close enough that you can feel its dragon breath on your neck. And yet! There’s still one more full week to go.American elections are drawn-out affairs, but this year’s contest may feel particularly long.
Cory Booker Slams ‘Racist’ House GOP Candidate Madison Cawthorn
“It just really personally saddens me that somebody who is so clearly racist is a nominee of a major party,” the U.S. senator from New Jersey said.
The 11,000 Votes That Haunt Michigan Democrats
In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by the narrowest margin of any state—10,704 votes. “There are 11,000 more votes in Detroit,” Garlin Gilchrist told himself that night. “There are 11,000 Black men who could vote to change that.”A few months later, Gilchrist, then just 35, entered the race for Detroit city clerk—the city’s chief elections officer. His pitch: He could help engage more voters, and help make it easier for them to vote.
Republican Governor Faults Trump For Sending ‘Confusing Messages’ About Masks
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the president should be “truthful” and “realistic” about the COVID-19 crisis.
Massachusetts: Images of the Bay State
Massachusetts is one of the smallest, but most densely populated, states, with a population of nearly 6.9 million. From the Berkshires through the Pioneer Valley to Boston, out to Cape Cod and the Islands, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Massachusetts, and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
What Was Adele Doing on Saturday Night Live?
It’s been almost five years since Adele Adkins released new music. Her last album, 25, delivered emotional, vocally masterful, classicist pop just in time to soothe listeners during taxing election seasons in the U.S. and U.K. An excellent Saturday Night Live sketch back then even posited that her hit “Hello” could be the one thing to bring together feuding family members at Thanksgiving dinners.
Amy Coney Barrett’s Judicial Philosophy Doesn’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
During her confirmation hearings, Amy Coney Barrett argued that the judicial philosophy known as “originalism” should guide judges in their interpretation and application of constitutional principles.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Therapist Is Living My Greatest Fear. How Can I Continue to Discuss It With Her?
Parenting advice on anxiety, career choice, and bedtime.
Cartoonist and Journalist Joe Sacco on How He Earns His Sources’ Trust
In his new book Paying the Land, Joe Sacco takes us through the painful history of the Northwestern Territory’s indigenous people.
Arranger Alex Lacamoire Breaks Down His Process for Hamilton
His other work includes In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, and Bring it On: The Musical.
Biden’s Promise to Be a President for All Americans Isn’t Just Cheesy Rhetoric
It’s a policy reversal from a presidency that helps red states and harms blue ones.
Make Mitch McConnell Kill the Stimulus Bill
Democrats want it. The president wants it. Americans need it. If GOP senators want to kill it, they can own it, too.
U.S. sets new single-day record for coronavirus infections
The latest surge comes ahead of what’s expected to be an especially dangerous winter for the virus, with hospitalizations already on the rise.
CDC broadens definition of who’s at risk of getting coronavirus
The updated guidance defines a “close contact” as anyone who spends at least 15 minutes within six feet of an infected individual over a 24-hour period.
Why the U.S. doesn’t have an at-home coronavirus test yet
Concerns about the tests’ reliability, how consumers might react to their results and how public health departments will track them have slowed development.
DOJ announces $8B-plus settlement with OxyContin maker
The settlement with the opioid manufacturer comes less than two weeks before Election Day.
Trump’s broadsides against science put GOP governors in a bind
The clashing messages come as large swaths of the country experience uncontrolled spread that state officials fear could swamp their already strapped health systems
The Atlantic Daily: The Case Against Donald Trump
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.THE ATLANTIC“Spectacularly obvious.”That’s what our editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, writing on behalf of The Atlantic’s editors, called the choice voters face this November.“Two men are running for president,” he writes.
Hawaiʻi Has Been Without Tourists for Seven Months. It’s Been Strange.
Sometimes, it felt like going back in time.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter Is in Love With Our Neighbor—Who Is Also Her Secret Half-Brother
Parenting advice on secret siblings, nut allergy panic, and class anxiety.
A Speaker That Can Travel From the Shower to the Trail, Now on Sale
The JBL “Clip 3” is on sale for $40.
How coronavirus is reshaping America’s job market
About 1 in 3 people were either working in a different job in September than they were in February or were unemployed, researchers say.
How the Pandemic Is Worsening America’s Racial Gaps
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.
Federal deficit triples to $3.1T, Treasury data shows
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.
Hard-hit small businesses face long winter without lifeline
Some 60 percent of all U.S. businesses that have closed during the pandemic have not reopened.
“It’s Criminal”: Biden Slams Trump as Gov’t Can’t Find Parents of 545 Children Separated at Border
During the second and final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, moderator Kristen Welker asked Trump and Biden about immigration and family separation. Trump deflected questions during the debate, repeatedly stating that the Obama-Biden administration “built the cages” and falsely claiming that kids seeking asylum in the U.S. are “well taken care of.
Biden Admits Past Mistake Supporting Crime Bill as Trump Defends Attacks on Black Lives Matter
President Trump and Joe Biden sparred on their records over race and criminal justice in Thursday’s presidential debate. Trump simultaneously promoted his criminal justice reform efforts while continuing to lean on “tough on crime” rhetoric. Trump also criticized Biden for authoring the 1994 crime bill and supporting other laws that intensified mass incarceration in the U.S., which Biden acknowledged was “a mistake.