Astronomers don’t usually jump out of bed when they receive alerts in the middle of the night that, somewhere far away, two black holes have smacked into each other and sent shock waves coursing through the universe. These days, the detection of colliding black holes verges on routine, and astronomers know what to do: Go back to sleep.
A little more than a century ago, in what are known as the Chinese Exclusion Cases, the Supreme Court said that the political branches possess sweeping powers over noncitizens who are seeking to enter the United States. The Court’s reasoning for granting Congress and the president these expansive powers wasn’t just because of some special status of the border. Rather, the Chinese Exclusion Cases were rooted in racism and xenophobia.
Plus: Welcoming a pre-teen niece into the family. But, like, in a *cool* way.
Gov. Greg Abbott has urged state residents to wear masks.
From Qwirkle to Codenames, there’s something for everyone.
Believe it or not, I learned a lot.
The Poor People’s Campaign offered a counterpoint to President Trump’s sparsely attended Tulsa campaign rally with a mass digital gathering that unveiled a policy platform to spur “transformative action” on five key issues of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the threat of religious nationalism. “We have to repair and revive,” says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the world and could surpass the U.S. death toll next month. “What we see in the country is a reflection of the leadership that we have,” says Marcia Castro, professor of demography, chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H.
I’m a pro-choice liberal, and I feel so horrible for having this hang-up.
By some measures, livelihoods actually improved when the economy locked down. It’s up to Congress to keep them that way.
Working at a firm like McKinsey was once considered prestigious. Now, it’s complicated.
The House Democratic plan is less ambitious than the platform put forward by Joe Biden.
“Why was it canceled? It was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it,” Fauci said.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
Kathy Jenkins had yelled “KKK belief” at a Black Lives Matter protest in Missouri and vowed to teach hate to her grandchildren in a video that went viral.
COVID-19 punched America—and most of the world—in the gut. It has taken so many lives, and upended so many others by taking away their primary sources of income. It has altered fundamentally the way we operate and how we interact with one another, perhaps forever. The pandemic has made economic inequality—which was severe enough beforehand—even worse.
The coronavirus has heightened many different forms of inequality.
Palm Beach County commissioners were told they would be “punished by God” ahead of their vote to require that face masks be worn in public.
Since Sept. 11, South Asian and Middle Eastern Americans have often been targeted in bias or hate crimes, including those involving everyday discrimination, harassment, profiling, and physical violence. These crimes against immigrant communities, which are often underreported, continue to rise amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Returning to his restaurant, India Palace, in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Monday, Bajit Singh was met with a shock.
Some governors have ordered residents to wear masks as others warn of further shutdowns should cases continue to surge.
A new University of North Florida poll of Duval County voters suggests that the locals are none too happy about the Republican Party’s decision to saddle them with the Pandemic Funtime Hitler Show, aka the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, at the end of August. The poll shows 58% of county residents “strongly or somewhat” oppose hosting the convention, compared to 42% in support.
Have you heard the phrase “defund the police” a lot recently? Do you support reallocating budgets from the police to community strategies?
In this new episode of “How Did We Get Here?” (my weekly show on our Daily Kos YouTube channel) I break down what it actually means to defund the police.
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The transcript can be found below.
Doctors are discovering life-threatening and costly long-term health effects ranging from kidney failure to heart and lung damage.
Fifty years ago, the Watergate scandal offered the country a mystery that followed the pattern of a traditional detective story. A crime had been committed. Who did it, and why? First the media, and then Congress and prosecutors, followed the clues for two years—until, at last, evidence was discovered proving that the culprit was indeed President Richard Nixon.The Trump-Russia scandal, by contrast, offers an update on the old formula, much as the innovative Columbo series did in the 1970s.
The former national security adviser’s memoir adds to perceptions that Trump downplayed Covid-19 to preserve his relationship with Chinese president.
