It seems like tabloids and magazines aren’t the only ones concerned with just appearances. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has become the talk of the town after making an appearance at a military parade this week, looking a lot slimmer.
Of course, one of the first outlets to report on his new look and focus solely on that rather than his numerous human rights violations is Fox News.
Kids in Nebraska must be vaccinated against diseases such as chickenpox and measles, but Gov. Pete Ricketts has come out against mandating COVID-19 shots.
By Angela Hart, for Kaiser Health News
Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Ave. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Oakland’s hip Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.
“I’m being actually quite serious here,” the former White House economic adviser said.
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns or explain issues that impact our party.
A few weeks ago, I was part of a series of conference calls involving campaign finance directors, discussing what they needed to make campaigns function correctly.
Here are the biggest problems the next governor will face.
By Tim Redmond, for Capital and Main
There are 46 people who think they should replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California.
Most of them have no idea what they would be getting into.
Sure, a couple of candidates—like former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer—actually have some experience in government.
Atoosa is back—and she has more to say than ever.
Really didn’t think we’d be coming home with this!
Sen. Joe Manchin, whose vote would be crucial in passing the bill, doubled down on his refusal. Sen. Bernie Sanders called his stance “absolutely not acceptable.
Elder, a Republican talk radio host seeking to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in this week’s recall, has rubbed elbows with fringe right-wing figures.
“We have to put this in context,” Vivek Murthy said.
When Kimberly Sheldon was 47, she says made the biggest mistake of her life. That was in 2018, when she says that a dentist explained to her that cutting the tissue under her tongue would help her jaw pain, gum recession, and occasional headaches. Her issues, he said, could be due to the fact that the back of her tongue couldn’t reach the roof of her mouth.
In Joy Williams’s 1988 novel, Breaking and Entering, a drifter named Willie finds himself, inexplicably and as if against his will, saving people. A young man is struck by lightning and Willie gives him CPR. An elderly couple drives off a boat ramp and Willie pulls the door open. Willie isn’t actively looking to help anyone; he just kind of falls into it. As Williams writes, “He had never had a penchant for the saving.
When the doctor sliced open the body,
soft still to the touch, apprenticed
to expression, when the fleshwas pulled back between index and thumb
revealing the armor of breastbone,
imagine he who saw the heart froth,the heart bubble over like soda water.
Then think of grief leaving the body,
flitting like salt to the nearby sink,and joy like atoms joining in air
toward another living promise.
Just long enough for her to try it.
The city has not released NYCHA-specific Covid data in more than a year.
Parenting advice on gender, coming out, and new motherhood.
In The Card Counter, William Tell (played by Oscar Isaac) keeps his emotions under strict control. He’s a poker player, and the slightest facial expression could give away his hand. William’s life is equally circumscribed: He travels around the country from casino to casino, subsisting on low-stakes games and doing nothing to draw attention to himself.
The Pentagon is not the most inviting place for first-time visitors, and it was no different for Chris Lynch. When he rode the escalator out of the Pentagon metro station, Lynch was greeted by guard dogs and security personnel wearing body armor and toting machine guns. He lost cell service upon entering the building and was forced to run through more than a half mile of hallways to make his meeting in the office of the secretary of defense.
The president’s critics—and the media pretending they have a point—are being ridiculous.
9/11 marked the final gasp of the ministerial anchorman.
My granddaughters are no longer speaking to each other.
Doing a solid for voters who won’t notice you helped them for years.
Conservative media is awash in pandemic conspiracy. But it’s mostly local talk radio hosts who are actually getting sick and dying.
Two of the analyses suggest that as the Delta variant spread this summer, the shots became less effective at keeping people 75 and older out of the hospital.
As the left tries to stay united, its different factions are at odds over a critical word: “women.
The agency has deferred its decision on the largest vaping companies, including Juul.
The six-part plan includes an order that all executive branch federal workers get vaccinated.
The plan — developed by DHHS — largely backs Democrats’ ongoing efforts to lower drug prices.
Tomorrow marks 20 years since the attacks on September 11, 2001. The adrenaline shock of that morning has long worn off, leaving behind only the horror, the loss, and two decades’ worth of grief.
It’s tempting to use this anniversary to consider the attacks as a greater political or cultural moment, to analyze where the country went right or wrong in its response. And doing so is important.