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.
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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.
Trump’s economic comeback is becoming a slowdown and likely a stall-out
New jobless claims declined a bit last week after two weeks of increases but remain above 1 million per week.
Twitter Users Get A Kick Out Of How Trump Mispronounced Thailand
The president referred to the Asian country as “Thighland” before correcting himself.
Trump Claims Biden Opposes God
Trump’s remarks signaled how contentious the campaign may get over the coming months.
What Democrats Have to Do to Save the Postal Service in Time for the Election
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
For Whom the Tok Tiks
Updated at 11:15 p.m. ET on August 6, 2020.What is TikTok though? It’s an app for creating and sharing short videos, but that description undersells its delight: lip-synched anthems that spawn split-screen duet replies; “challenges” that turn boring tasks into virtuosic dances; wry, incisive takedowns of national politics by teens too young to vote; pets, kids, emo kids, emo pets, and comedians.That’s part of what TikTok is, anyway.
Bring the Fancy Juice Bar Experience to Your Kitchen With This Juicer, Now on Sale
The Breville Juice Fountain Cold Plus is now 20 percent off.
Criticism Won’t Help Kids Form Healthy Relationships With Food
How to get a grandma obsessed with body image to stop talking about weight in front of her impressionable grandkids.
Susan Rice Has A Mysterious Gap In Her Resume
Joe Biden’s potential running mate worked as a private consultant for foreign governments in 2001-2. It’s not clear who her clients were.
Ellen’s Celebrity Defenders Aren’t Helping Her
Famous people want the world to know that Ellen DeGeneres is nice to famous people. Addressing media reports alleging a culture of harassment and bullying at DeGeneres’s talk show, the singer Katy Perry tweeted Tuesday that she’s “only ever had positive takeaways from my time with Ellen.
Dear Diary: This Is My Life in Quarantine
The time we’re living through will one day become history. This is always true, of course, but the coronavirus pandemic has, perhaps more than any other event in living memory, made people hyperaware that their present will be remembered in the future. And this new, strange sensation has compelled many to capture the moment for posterity.The urge hit Janis Whitlock, a research scientist at Cornell University, when she was walking outside in early March.
I’m Tired of Hearing That Teachers Are Only Thinking About Ourselves Right Now. We’re Not.
I am wholeheartedly committed to my students. I recognize just how much is at stake.
Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood.
“The Beginning of Our End”: On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.
Help! My Brother’s New Girlfriend Got Drunk at My Birthday and Stole My Cake.
I want an apology and a new cake. He says I’m being unreasonable.
Ask a Teacher: Zoom Brought Out the Best in Our Daughter. Should We Stick with It?
She was more curious, more independent, and more social online.
A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
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.
The Extremely Boring Idea That Could Save the Economy
Automatic stabilizers: learn them, live them, love them.
Everything, Um, Unusual About Kodak’s Trump-Assisted Pivot to Pharmaceuticals
Two years ago, the camera maker got into cryptocurrency.
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.