Liz Cheney Slaps Down Trump’s Attempt To Redefine 2020 Election As ‘THE BIG LIE’
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” the Wyoming Republican correctly noted on Monday.
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Dear Care and Feeding: My Teen Is About to Fall Down the Male-Power Incel Rabbit Hole
Parenting advice on masculinity, mean girls, and undermining moms.
As Global Pandemic Worsens, U.S. Keeps Blocking Vaccine Patent Waivers Amid Big Pharma Lobbying
Big Pharma has hired an army of lobbyists to pressure U.S. lawmakers to block an effort at the World Trade Organization to loosen intellectual property rules on COVID-19 vaccines, which would allow countries around the world to ramp up production, vaccinate more people and bring the pandemic to an end sooner. Dozens of countries from the Global South, led by India and South Africa, are demanding a temporary waiver on vaccine patents, but rich countries, including the U.S.
May Day 1971: Daniel Ellsberg on Joining Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn at Historic Antiwar Direct Action
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the 1971 May Day protests, when tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., and brought much of the capital to a standstill through acts of civil disobedience. The mass demonstrations terrified the Nixon administration, and police would arrest over 12,000 people — the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.
Chicago Police Need “Overhaul” After Foot Chases Led to Alvarez & Toledo Killings Within 48 Hours
More than 100 people marched alongside the family of Anthony Alvarez in Chicago Saturday, calling for the police officer who shot and killed him to be charged. Newly released video reveals police killed 22-year-old Alvarez while he was running away during a foot chase. Police have not said why they initially confronted and then chased Alvarez, who was killed just two days after Chicago police shot dead another young Latinx male, 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving
I thought I saw something in the road.It was after 1 a.m. one night in April 2016, and I was heading home from a friend’s house on the outskirts of Atlanta. From a distance, the dark spot looked like an oil stain. Then she turned her head and my headlights lit her face. A woman in dark clothing was standing in my lane on Interstate 75. I pounded the brake, but I was too late.
12 Pieces of Advice for Better Parenting
Editor’s Note: With Lori Gottlieb on book leave, Rebecca J. Rosen, the editor of “Dear Therapist,” begins another month as The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” archivist, pointing readers to some of Lori’s most beloved columns. For this month’s “Dear Therapist” roundup, I’ve gathered together a set of columns on one of the topics Lori covers often: parenthood.Parents write to Lori frequently.
Feds rethink vaccination strategy as slowing demand reveals stark divide
The White House expected vaccination rates to drop off in rural communities and among younger people who are hesitant about the shot.
FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days
Let’s talk about the period when Roosevelt actually created the modern welfare state.
What Uber and DoorDash’s Investors Are Suddenly Afraid Of
And what the gig economy really has to fear.
The Real Villains of the Housing Crisis
One group has too much power over what gets built—or, more often, what doesn’t.
Joe Biden Just Wants to Make the U.S. a Normal Country That Isn’t Horrible for Parents
The American Families Plan is really a plan to give us what other industrialized countries already have.
Joe Biden’s Ambitious Plan to Audit the Filthy Rich
A sensible, way overdue idea for fixing the welfare state.
‘A tough call’: Biden considering mandatory Covid vaccines for U.S. troops
The comments from the commander in chief come as the Pentagon has sounded the alarm about service members refusing the shots in large numbers.
Biden’s next pandemic challenge: Getting Americans to accept the virus
The challenge for Biden, his response team and state health officials will be managing the rolling series of outbreaks possibly driven by more dangerous virus variants.
FDA says it will ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars
The agency has long faced calls to act on menthol cigarettes, which are disproportionately smoked by Black Americans and teens just starting to use tobacco.
FDA readies plan to bar menthol cigarettes nationwide
The menthol ban would be one of FDA’s most aggressive tobacco reform efforts since the agency first began regulating the industry in 2009.
Biden’s Covid team split over decision to send vaccine doses abroad
The announcement Monday followed a call between President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mark Carney on Canada’s economic growth: ‘It’s going to take more than one budget’
“There were elements of growth in the balance from what I can see and understand,” Carney said in a long response that didn’t directly answer the question.
How the Trudeau government plans to meet its climate goals
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Bone Rooms: How Elite Schools and Museums Amassed Black and Native Human Remains Without Consent
Revelations the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton hold the remains of a child killed by Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing are the latest development in a conversation about demanding respectful treatment of African American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved.
After Protests over Unauthorized Use of MOVE Child’s Bones, U. of Pennsylvania & Princeton Apologize
Following protests, two Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University — have issued apologies for their handling of the remains of an African American child killed by the Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
“A Threshold Crossed”: Israel Is Guilty of Apartheid, Human Rights Watch Says for First Time
A major new report by Human Rights Watch says for the first time that Israel is committing crimes of apartheid and persecution in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The international human rights group says Israeli authorities dispossessed, confined and forcibly separated Palestinians. “For years, prominent voices have warned that apartheid lurked just around the corner.
“Rejection of the Neoliberal Framework”: Biden Proposes Trillions in New Spending, Taxes on the Rich
On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Joe Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress and proposed trillions of dollars in new economic measures. He unveiled his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which includes $1 trillion in new spending and $800 billion in tax credits aimed at expanding access to education and child care.
Stop Lying If You Want ‘Kumbaya,’ CNN Host Pamela Brown Slams GOP
Some Republicans now want to “move on” from a profound division they created, the CNN host noted.
Trump’s Scottish Golf Resorts Took $800,000 In Taxpayer Funds To Save Jobs, But Cut Workers
Union officials called the money grab a “scandal” and are calling for a government investigation.
News Roundup: 70% of Republicans believe election was stolen; Mitt Romney gets heckled
In today’s news: The Republican Party continues to go off the rails. What rails? All the rails. Every single rail. And there’s no hint of it getting better anytime soon.
Employers are outraged that workers won’t come crawling to work for peanuts in a pandemic
The big push is on to blame the American Rescue Plan for businesses not being able to find enough workers to fill their jobs. Business owners—restaurant owners in particular—are lining up to tell reporters how those darn lazy workers would rather stay home and collect unemployment than go back to work.
Biden is within reach of historic greatness—a prospect barely even imaginable 100 days ago
One hundred days into Joe Biden’s presidency, everyone living in a reality-based world is getting the sense that the 46th president of the United States might be on the way to making history.
The potential for Biden to enact historic change has been fueled by a confluence of factors, including a catastrophic pandemic that has arguably become the nation’s deadliest public health crisis in a century and has devastated the economy in the process.