Underlying ConditionsIn America, George Packer wrote, the coronavirus has revealed a sick and unequal society incapable of self-government (June).I shall chew on this article for several days. The taste is bitter. However, it should be swallowed and digested; hopefully its nutrients will be absorbed.Ian McHughMattapoisett, Mass.As I read this excellent article, I was struck by the clarity of the writer’s vision.
Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; Fox Searchlight Pictures; GettyThe child and the writer are born at the same moment, to the same mother, each to his separate destiny. The child’s is to see everything, feel everything, be everything, and live in the scraps and sparks of language by which he understands everything; the writer’s is to wait, and hide, and grow, until the day when he steps in—pen in hand—to take possession.
Photo illustration by Miki LoweYusef Komunyakaa’s love for poetry began with his grandparents. They were dedicated churchgoers, and he’s said that “the Old Testament informed the cadences of their speech.” Komunyakaa spent his childhood at home in Louisiana, reading and rereading the Bible—and listening to jazz and blues on the wooden radio in his mother’s living room.
Parenting advice on newborn visitation, the return to school, and college majors.
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
Two of the president’s ideas are useless, and none will rescue the economy. But some could actually help.
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.
The Frieling Double Wall Stainless Steel French Press is more than 20 percent off.
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak,” says Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, a clinical psychologist and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
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.
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.
Order my new book, We Should Improve Society Somewhat, 184 pages of political cartoons on the last few years of our dystopian world!
Americans were looking for “relief,” instead the president promised to defund Social Security and Medicare, said a Florida lawmaker.
If you didn’t know, Donald Trump is golfing and hanging out with rich people in New Jersey this weekend, so of course, high on flattery, he’s holding media events. Saturday’s press conference took Trump away from the links for less than half an hour, ending abruptly when a CBS News reporter challenged the impeached president on one of his favorite falsehoods.
