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This Is Exactly What Susan Rice Feared
A few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice held a press briefing in her office to talk about the threats she saw on the horizon as Barack Obama’s presidency drew to a close. “What keeps you up at night? one reporter asked toward the end of the meeting. Her answer: a pandemic that spirals out of control.
America’s Authoritarian Governor
America has botched its coronavirus response in so, so many ways since the pandemic began. Even in a country that stands apart from the world for its horrific failures, there have been as many leadership bungles as there are states: Some failed to heed early warnings. Others refused to learn the lessons of outbreaks that came before theirs. Still others played politics instead of following science. And then there’s Georgia.Georgia’s response to the pandemic has not been going well.
Cancel College
Despite the continued spread of the coronavirus, many colleges around the country plan to welcome students back to campus over the coming weeks.Colleges want to reopen for good, nontrivial reasons. Administrators believe that most students learn better when they are physically assembled in the same place. And they know that the American college experience, at any rate, has long been about more than the classroom.
The Riches of This Land
Jim Tankersley visits Slate Money to talk about his book on America’s middle class.
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.
The Immersive Sounds of Audio Drama
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
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.
Trump’s economic comeback is becoming a slowdown and likely a stall-out
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
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.
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.
Listen: This Episode Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed
News of scientific developments now reaches a much wider audience in this pandemic. But not all science news is created equal, and the difference between a meaningful study and a meaningless one is often distinguished only through terms many Americans aren’t familiar with.
Oprah’s magazine sponsored 26 Breonna Taylor billboards around Louisville demanding justice
Oprah Winfrey and her crew at O, the Oprah Magazine not only featured Breonna Taylor on one of the magazine’s final covers, the first ever O Magazine cover to feature someone other than the media mogul herself in 20 years of publication, they are going even further in their quest for justice for Breonna Taylor and her family.
Sign and send a petition to Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer: Fire all the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s murder.
Pelosi welcomes judge’s decision against Republicans in proxy voting lawsuit
House Republicans can’t sue to block the proxy voting system adopted by a full vote of the House (over unanimous Republican opposition) to keep members safe during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit, writing that “the House unquestionably has the authority, under the Constitution, to ‘determine the rules of its proceedings.
Why That Falwell Jr. Yacht Photo Was the Final Straw
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
Trump Calls Maskless Country Club Audience At Press Conference A ‘Peaceful Protest’
Dozens of guests at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club joined his news conference, booing reporters and appearing to flout state limits on gatherings.
Kansas governor angered after House Speaker attended meeting, didn’t disclose COVID hospitalization
What kind of a person would go from being hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms for a week and then return to work as normal without telling his coworkers? Kansas House Speaker Ron “Rona” Ryckman, that’s who.
The Kansas lawmaker, a senior Republican from Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, told supporters in an email obtained by the Kansas City Star about his diagnosis.
Dem senators: Trump’s secret police, not ‘antifa,’ are the real threat to democracy and free speech
Ted Cruz organized a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing earlier this week whose primary purpose was to blame “radical leftists,” “anarchists,” and “antifa” for protest-related violence around the country.
Joe Arpaio Loses Primary For His Old Job As Sheriff
Arpaio, the infamous anti-immigrant former sheriff who received a Trump pardon after being criminally convicted, won’t be getting his old job back.
ICE rejected COVID-19 testing for all detainees at facility because it would be too much trouble
There’s really no bottom when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison profiteers join forces—just consider the latest example.
The Roving Evangelical Preacher Who Travels From One Site of Racial Unrest to Another
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.