So many simple pleasures are gone, casualties of the pandemic. Baseball games. Live concerts. Summertime parades. One civic ritual that’s neither simple nor necessarily pleasurable is also withering under the virus’s spread: the presidential nominating convention as we know it. Starting next week, the parties will hold stripped-down versions of the quadrennial gatherings to formalize the Donald Trump–Joe Biden matchup, creating, perhaps, a template for the future.
He just called in to Fox Business and said it.
She’s not the veep pick of the left’s dreams, but she’s not the veep pick of its memes, either.
There was a way for Trump to actually help Americans, not just look like he is. He didn’t bother.
Texas’s drop in testing is part of a larger nationwide trend that’s seen the average number of coronavirus tests fall since July.
President Donald Trump has pushed for the college football season to be played this year.
How to intervene if your teen is being exposed to radical viewpoints on social media.
Our daily life now possesses a level of calm that is clearly healthier for my child.
Asked when she would next be meeting with Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “I don’t know. When they come in with $2 trillion.
“It is clear that the UK is in the largest recession on record,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.
Donald Trump’s executive order wouldn’t do much to immediately help the 20 million or so Americans who face losing their homes in the next few months.
Lawmakers have left town and Trump aides don’t expect new stimulus talks anytime soon. That leaves the U.S. economy without much of the government aid that had been propping it up.
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
We go to Bolivia, where opponents of the coup government have entered day 11 of a general strike and nationwide highway blockade to protest the repeated postponement of Bolivia’s first presidential election since last year’s ouster of Evo Morales by the right-wing coup government of Jeanine Áñez, which was followed by an economic collapse and oppression.
As Senator Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman of color on a major party ticket, we host a debate on her record as California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney, when she proudly billed herself as “top cop” and called for more cops on the street. San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Niki Solis says Harris was the state’s most progressive DA and advocated for “so many policies and so many alternatives to incarceration.
Donald Trump has reportedly taken stock of the current state of his reelection bid and, according to the AP, knows just what it needs—a heck of a lot more Trump magic, if you will.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, America, but there’s just no escaping him. Trump not only revived the White House task force briefings, he sidelined all the actual experts so the klieg lights would be on him and him alone.
He said Tucker Carlson’s treatment of him on Fox News “triggers some of the crazies in society to start threatening me.
Remember when Susan Collins—just six months ago—so infamously declared that she didn’t need to vote to impeach Donald Trump because “I believe that the president has learned from this case. […] The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
You have to wonder if she has any personal regrets about her three years’ worth of support for Trump. Right now, she’s the Republican canary in the Trump coal mine.
A Memphis woman hospitalized with COVID-19 managed to recover enough to return home, only to find out she no longer had a home, WPSD-TV reported. Leslie Nelson, 56, was evicted after she was unable to pay her rent due to medical costs in the thousands, the news station reported.
To add insult to injury, a process server tasked with serving her an eviction notice allegedly had to be talked out of taking the woman’s antique rifle.
Facebook is failing the public—and the underlying principles of an open society, including the free exchange of ideas—on a multitude of fronts. The social-media giant has become the home, organizationally and (dis)informationally, of a broad menu of far-right extremists and their endless supply of frequently absurd conspiracism: QAnon, white supremacists, “Boogaloo Bois,” you name it.
Michelle Obama encapsulated what an awful lot of Americans woke up feeling Thursday morning, the day after Sen. Kamala Harris became Joe Biden’s running mate for the White House. “You get used to it, even as a little girl—opening the newspaper, turning on the TV, and hardly ever seeing anyone who looks like you. You train yourself to not get your hopes up,” Obama wrote. “[I]t always feels like someone is waiting to tell you that you’re not qualified.
As Trump’s postmaster thwarts the Postal Service, the USPS warns 46 states that mail-in ballots may not be delivered on time, potentially canceling out those votes.
“I was going to say I’m pissed off, but I’m afraid they’d bleep it,” the cartoon matriarch said via YouTube.
The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.
“A lot of people are being told to bring back the mail and then deliver it tomorrow, which creates a snowball effect.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.
Both Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell have been with the health department since the start of the Trump administration.
Trump was asked to respond to the victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter from Georgia.
It took all of about 39 seconds for the vicious “birther” chatter to reemerge once former Vice President Joe Biden announced that Senator Kamala Harris would be his running mate for the November election. No wonder, since a certain variety of American citizen just can’t seem to wrap his mind around the U.S. Constitution’s provisions guaranteeing equal citizenship to all Americans.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Michael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled for months to obtain enough tests to fight the coronavirus.