Gun violence is fueling national trauma, surgeon general warns
Vivek Murthy hopes the growing number of victims, both direct and indirect, will persuade Congress to do more.
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Inside the $100 million plan to restore abortion rights in America
Leaders of the coalition say they want to make the procedure more accessible and affordable than ever before.
Avian flu spread in cows not being tracked, posing greater risk of human transmission
Mark Lyons, a senior USDA animal health official, said federal officials are “still working closely to understand the breadth” of the bird flu outbreak in the nation’s dairy herds.
Dems to Biden: You must out-populist Trump at the debate
The president has a compelling antimonopoly record. But he doesn’t always lean into it. And voters don’t really know of it. The debate could change that.
Biden’s economy: Good metrics, bad vibes, few levers
Friday’s good jobs numbers may be a boost. But boosts haven’t yet materialized into political benefits.
Biden hoped for a big economic story to tell. Now, he’s going small.
The president is getting more micro in his economic sales pitch as the landscape loses its luster.
US job market slows in April
Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March.
Biden Boasts of Israel Support in Gaza Assault as Trump Uses “Palestinian” as Slur Against Biden
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s exchange on foreign policy in Thursday’s presidential debate revealed that “the two candidates are extreme militarists, and one of them, Donald Trump, is a proponent and expresser of fascistic politics,” says activist Norman Solomon. In the brief section on Gaza, Biden boasted of his support for Israel as it pummels the Gaza Strip, while Trump criticized Biden, saying Israel should be allowed to “finish the job,” and said Biden is “like a Palestinian.
Biden-Trump Debate: Silky Shah on How Both Candidates Scapegoat Immigrants, Promote Xenophobic Myths
Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump was “a really, really rough night for those who are fighting for immigrant rights,” says Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network. “Trump repeatedly was stoking a moral panic on immigration, and Biden had very little in response.” Both candidates boasted about restricting immigration and militarizing the border, while casting immigrants as dangerous and violent.
2024 Debate: Trump Lies About Abortions After Birth as Biden Fails to Defend Reproductive Rights
Abortion rights were a key focus of Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the first to be held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Trump took credit for nominating the conservative justices who helped overturn the law, and falsely claimed that Democrats support abortions “even after birth.
“Taking Black Jobs”? Economists Darrick Hamilton & Dean Baker on Inflation & Taxes in Pres. Debate
We speak with two leading economists about Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, where the candidates sparred over tariffs, taxes, inflation and more. Trump repeatedly claimed that immigrants coming to the United States are stealing “Black jobs,” which is a “fascist notion,” says Darrick Hamilton, founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School.
“Step Aside Joe”: After First Pres. Debate, Democrats Reeling from Biden Missteps & Trump Lies
The first 2024 presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump was held on Thursday night. It marked the first time a sitting president debated a former one. It also marked the two oldest candidates ever to run for president, with a combined age of 159. The 90-minute discussion hosted by CNN was more of an incoherent debacle than any substantive debate. Biden was halting and disjointed.
Donald Trump’s Theory of Everything
At Thursday’s debate, while Joe Biden struggled to put a sentence together, Donald Trump struggled to utter any sentence that wasn’t about illegal immigrants destroying the country.
Harsh rhetoric—and policy—on migrants and the border has long been a pillar of Trump’s political identity, but it used to slot into a much wider range of grievances.
Beech Trees Are Masters of Coordination
This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine.
Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they’ll make for the year, then release their fruit onto the forest floor to create a new generation and feed the surrounding ecosystem.
Don’t Give Up on Tourism. Just Do It Better.
In 1956, the poet Elizabeth Bishop worried about the imprudence and absurdity of going abroad. “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?” she writes in her poem “Questions of Travel.
A Self-Aware Teen Soap
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How Congress Could Protect Free Speech on Campus
Last year at Harvard, three Israeli Jews took a course at the Kennedy School of Government. They say that because of their ethnicity, ancestry, and national origin, their professor subjected them to unequal treatment, trying to suppress their speech in class and allowing teaching assistants and classmates to create a hostile climate for Jews.
Afterward, they filed a complaint with Harvard alleging a violation of their civil rights.
Supreme Court ‘inadvertently’ exposes opinion that would restore emergency abortion access in Idaho
The decision posted online shows that the justices voted to dismiss the dispute from their docket.
Opioid deaths rose 50 percent during the pandemic. In these places, they fell.
A federal plan to promote treatment and distribute overdose reversal drugs showed promise. Communities are trying to keep it going.
Gun violence is fueling national trauma, surgeon general warns
Vivek Murthy hopes the growing number of victims, both direct and indirect, will persuade Congress to do more.
Inside the $100 million plan to restore abortion rights in America
Leaders of the coalition say they want to make the procedure more accessible and affordable than ever before.
Avian flu spread in cows not being tracked, posing greater risk of human transmission
Mark Lyons, a senior USDA animal health official, said federal officials are “still working closely to understand the breadth” of the bird flu outbreak in the nation’s dairy herds.
Dems to Biden: You must out-populist Trump at the debate
The president has a compelling antimonopoly record. But he doesn’t always lean into it. And voters don’t really know of it. The debate could change that.
Biden’s economy: Good metrics, bad vibes, few levers
Friday’s good jobs numbers may be a boost. But boosts haven’t yet materialized into political benefits.
Biden hoped for a big economic story to tell. Now, he’s going small.
The president is getting more micro in his economic sales pitch as the landscape loses its luster.
US job market slows in April
Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March.
Biden Boasts of Israel Support in Gaza Assault as Trump Uses “Palestinian” as Slur Against Biden
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s exchange on foreign policy in Thursday’s presidential debate revealed that “the two candidates are extreme militarists, and one of them, Donald Trump, is a proponent and expresser of fascistic politics,” says activist Norman Solomon. In the brief section on Gaza, Biden boasted of his support for Israel as it pummels the Gaza Strip, while Trump criticized Biden, saying Israel should be allowed to “finish the job,” and said Biden is “like a Palestinian.
Biden-Trump Debate: Silky Shah on How Both Candidates Scapegoat Immigrants, Promote Xenophobic Myths
Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump was “a really, really rough night for those who are fighting for immigrant rights,” says Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network. “Trump repeatedly was stoking a moral panic on immigration, and Biden had very little in response.” Both candidates boasted about restricting immigration and militarizing the border, while casting immigrants as dangerous and violent.
2024 Debate: Trump Lies About Abortions After Birth as Biden Fails to Defend Reproductive Rights
Abortion rights were a key focus of Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the first to be held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Trump took credit for nominating the conservative justices who helped overturn the law, and falsely claimed that Democrats support abortions “even after birth.
“Taking Black Jobs”? Economists Darrick Hamilton & Dean Baker on Inflation & Taxes in Pres. Debate
We speak with two leading economists about Thursday’s CNN debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, where the candidates sparred over tariffs, taxes, inflation and more. Trump repeatedly claimed that immigrants coming to the United States are stealing “Black jobs,” which is a “fascist notion,” says Darrick Hamilton, founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School.