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.
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.
Parenting advice on anxiety, career choice, and bedtime.
In his new book Paying the Land, Joe Sacco takes us through the painful history of the Northwestern Territory’s indigenous people.
His other work includes In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, and Bring it On: The Musical.
It’s a policy reversal from a presidency that helps red states and harms blue ones.
Democrats want it. The president wants it. Americans need it. If GOP senators want to kill it, they can own it, too.
The latest surge comes ahead of what’s expected to be an especially dangerous winter for the virus, with hospitalizations already on the rise.
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.
Concerns about the tests’ reliability, how consumers might react to their results and how public health departments will track them have slowed development.
The settlement with the opioid manufacturer comes less than two weeks before Election Day.
The clashing messages come as large swaths of the country experience uncontrolled spread that state officials fear could swamp their already strapped health systems
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.
Sometimes, it felt like going back in time.
Parenting advice on secret siblings, nut allergy panic, and class anxiety.
The JBL “Clip 3” is on sale for $40.
About 1 in 3 people were either working in a different job in September than they were in February or were unemployed, researchers say.
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.
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.
Some 60 percent of all U.S. businesses that have closed during the pandemic have not reopened.
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.
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.
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday in the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign. It was a more subdued debate than their first clash, when Trump refused to abide by the rules and interrupted Biden at least 128 times. Thursday’s debate was moderated by NBC’s Kristen Welker, who began by asking the candidates about COVID-19.
As fighting continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, we look at the roots of the conflict that has already killed at least 700 people since fighting began in late September and which threatens to escalate despite two ceasefire attempts brokered by Russia. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, was the site of a bloody conflict in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Pence aide Marty Obst reportedly tested positive earlier this week.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes—Constitutional Law Experts Endorse Democrats’ Bill to Create 18-Year Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices:
Over two dozen constitutional law experts on Friday endorsed legislation recently introduced by a trio of House Democrats that would establish 18-year term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices.
With the election barely a week away—and the fate of our democracy hanging in the balance—it’s time for closing arguments. Turning out the base is vitally important, and it’s right that most progressive attention is focused there. But I would like to take a different tack, and make sure we collectively leave no stone unturned.
The president disputes facts about an alarming COVID-19 surge as a plot to sow fear ahead of the election.
