With the 2020 election now history, the political pundit class is already treating the two months leading up to Jan. 20 as if they don’t really exist. Donald Trump’s “I wuz robbed” shtick has already worn thin in just the span of a week, and the dark, apocalyptic projections of a coup instituted in some fashion by electoral shenanigans have already been doused with cold water.
President-elect Biden has pledged to build the most diverse government in modern history.
“We are in a very serious situation, but we can do something about it,” said Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
Kansas is the 15th-largest state in the U.S. by area, and home to almost 3 million residents. Nearly 90 percent of the state’s land is dedicated to agricultural use, carried out on some 59,500 farms. Here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Kansas, 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.
Tim LahanIt’s time to be grateful.For the courtesy, even when (especially when) it is feigned or forced. For the big, brassy hellos as we all file onto the plane, and the smaller, lines-around-the-eyes goodbyes as we all file off again, having gotten to know one another a little better.
In the summer of 1966, Mao Zedong—the father of the Chinese revolution, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and leader of the People’s Republic of China—called upon Chinese citizens to rise up in revolt against the very government and party he had been so personally responsible for establishing. “Bombard the headquarters!” he implored.
My wife, Rudaina, died at 9:30 p.m. on July 20. I was holding her hand.I have lost my parents and two siblings, but this is the first time I saw death come into a room and felt a life slip from my hand, ravaged by cancer. Minutes after, I kissed her forehead and was seized with fright and rage. “She is COLD,” I shrieked and collapsed on my knees with my head against her side. A nurse in her mid-20s knelt beside me, making the sounds mothers do to console a troubled child.
Illustrations by Louise Pomeroy“Ed-die! Ed-die! Ed-die!” Standing before a bank of potted poinsettias in Studio 8H of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Eddie Murphy, the returning comedy hero, smiled serenely and took a few seconds to bask in the chant that had broken out. Then he spoke. “It’s great to be back here finally, hosting Saturday Night Live for Christmas,” he said. “This is the last episode of 2019.
What to expect, and what risks you’ll take, from the moment you enter the airport.
Parenting advice on COVID, pain thresholds, and screen time.
The requirements of Pfizer’s shots create a “use it or lose it” situation.
The Treasury secretary is kicking the crutches out from under the economy before it’s ready.
When scandal surfaced, the historic American bank’s preoccupation with its past helped keep it in denial about its present.
Mass loan forgiveness is a mediocre solution to a complex problem. Its time may have come anyway.
The once-feared tabloid has been in a tailspin since it got involved with Donald Trump.
States fear a gap between the year-end deadline and inauguration
The agency also urged Americans to avoid mingling with people who haven’t resided in their same household in the past 14 days.
By tapping the Yale researcher, Biden makes clear his interest in addressing longstanding disparities that have exacerbated the pandemic.
The potential impact of Amazon’s arrival in the pharmaceutical space rippled through that sector immediately.
Parenting advice on dating age gaps, hygiene troubles, and mitten mutiny.
If I don’t, I can’t have full custody of my own daughter.
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
In Egypt, the executive director of the country’s leading human rights group has been arrested as part of an unprecedented crackdown on activists and journalists. Gasser Abdel-Razek was arrested at his home just days after two other staffers for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights were also arrested.
