What explains the strange constellation of symptoms that is “long COVID?” Will it ever go away? And why does vaccination seem to help? Writer F.T. Kola returns to the podcast Social Distance to recount her experience with long COVID with hosts James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins.They’re also joined by Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist investigating long COVID at her Yale lab.
You know the old saw: April showers bring … well, pretty things the next month.
Except that here in the world of statehouse action, GOP-controlled legislatures keep making things pretty ugly.
But yay, it’s May! … which means that a lot of state legislatures will be wrapping their business this month or next.
Here’s what one of them in particular is getting up to before heading home.
In Florida, Republican Gov.
For roughly six months after he was laid off, Anthony Antonio was in a home where Fox News played constantly, his attorney told a court.
The seemingly never-ending saga of Republican fraudsters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman continues. These two losers have not stopped hitting new lows since coming on the scene as two-bit versions of already two-bit scam artists like Donald Trump and his “garbage can orbit.” They continue to make news because even though their actions would confine most other Americans to sentence after sentence in prison, they remain relatively free to continue to defraud the American public.
Not only is it callous, it doesn’t even make sense.
GOP leaders seem willing to do almost anything to rally the party’s base, even if that means refusing to confront Trump’s ongoing lie that he won the 2020 election.
A Fox News appearance by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) ends with laughter about trying to destroy American democracy for personal gain.
The president suggested his agenda shouldn’t be paid for with debt.
No one has set any clear standard about how badly a politician can break Facebook’s rules before getting kicked off the platform, and yesterday the company’s wannabe court missed a chance to fill the void.
When two billionaires running one of the world’s largest private foundations split up, it matters to everyone.
Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a lifelong conservative Republican, is facing a purge.Cheney’s transgression? She has continued to insist, truthfully, that former President Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election are false, after having voted to impeach him in March for inciting a mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the result.Yesterday, Steve Scalise, the No.
The GOP California gubernatorial candidate lamented that airplane owners are moving away so they don’t have to see homeless people.
Billie Eilish’s blond bombshell Vogue cover might not deserve all that discourse.
The agreement comes as global supply of the Covid-19 vaccines remains tight in many countries.
Former President Donald Trump will continue to stay off Facebook after the company’s Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that his ban was justified for creating “an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.” Trump was banned shortly after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which he helped foment by promoting baseless claims of election fraud. The Oversight Board also said Facebook should reassess its ban and make a final decision in six months.
At least 30 people in Colombia have been reportedly killed since a nationwide uprising erupted against the government of right-wing President Iván Duque. Protesters are vowing to remain in the streets amid a deadly crackdown by police and military officers. About 800 people have been injured and 87 people are missing in the midst of the demonstrations, which were initially sparked by a now-withdrawn tax reform proposal, but they have since expanded in scope.
The Biden administration has announced it now supports temporarily waiving the intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines, in what the World Trade Organization is calling a “monumental moment.” India and South Africa first proposed the waiver in October, but the United States and other wealthy nations blocked the WTO from even opening negotiations on the proposal.
I feel like I don’t know her anymore.
I want to teach in a school where my co-workers and my students are decent people and share my values.
There’s an important tool we need—and President Biden has a chance to create it.
Officials say the virus remains a persistent enough threat to potentially mutate into something that puts even vaccinated people at heightened risk.
Let’s talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
And what the gig economy really has to fear.
One group has too much power over what gets built—or, more often, what doesn’t.
He’s aiming to vaccinate at least 70 percent of adults by July 4 as the pace of vaccinations has been slowing.
The Australian government announced it will jail and fine citizens attempting to return from India.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration has been pressing Washington for help obtaining vaccines since December, before Donald Trump left office.
America had no idea this would be hot Melinda Gates summer.
I can’t even think about it without gagging.
