My Husband Can’t Figure Out the Glaringly Obvious Reason I Don’t Want to Have Sex With Him
I’m not sure how to tell him either.
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It’s Hard to Make America More Fun When There Are So Many Guns
The unexamined enemy of great public design.
Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant
This much is clear: The coronavirus is becoming more transmissible. Ever since the virus emerged in China, it has been gaining mutations that help it spread more easily among humans. The Alpha variant, first detected in the United Kingdom last year, is 50 percent more transmissible than the original version, and now the Delta variant, first detected in India, is at least 40 percent more transmissible than Alpha.
Service Workers Shouldn’t Have to Wear Masks for Customers’ Comfort
Many employers’ current policies are public health nonsense—and an insult to workers.
The Books Briefing: Finding Place as a Black American
As this year’s Juneteenth celebrations begin—commemorating when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were told that the Civil War had ended and they were now technically free—thinking about place can be illuminating. America has a long history of denying and violating the basic rights of Black people, leading many of these citizens to carve out spaces that celebrate and recognize their full humanity.
“Here I Am”: Meet a Descendant of One of 272 Enslaved People Sold on June 19, 1838, by Georgetown U.
We look at another significant June 19 in the history of slavery in the United States: June 19, 1838, when Jesuit priests who ran what is now Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off the school’s debts. In 2016, Georgetown University announced it would give preferential admissions treatment to descendants of the Africans it enslaved and sold.
Clint Smith on Juneteenth & Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
As President Biden signs legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday to mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we speak to the writer and poet Clint Smith about Juneteenth and his new book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.
The Strange Elegance of Joe Manchin’s Voter-ID Deal
In order to secure his vote on the most significant voting-rights legislation in more than half a century, Senator Joe Manchin is demanding that every American be required to show identification in order to vote. Democrats shouldn’t hold their nose and take that deal.They should embrace it with open arms.Manchin has been frequently and fairly criticized for incoherence on democracy issues.
Arizona Sham Auditors Transport Voting System Data To Secret Montana Hideout
The liaison for the controversial audit arranged by Republicans conceded the data may contain “sensitive” personal information about voters.
The Dark Side of Fitness Culture
This is supposed to be the season of unleashed, exuberant exhibitionism. Many of us have swaddled our pale bodies in Lycra and terry cloth for more than a year; the theory of Hot Vax Summer is that we’re long overdue to expose them to the cruel light of other people’s eyes. In the music video for “Solar Power,” Lorde basks on the beach in a lemon-yellow crop top, the symmetry of her rib cage its own work of art.
Dear Care and Feeding: My In-Laws Treat My Husband’s Son From an Affair Better Than Our Kids
Parenting advice on in-law favoritism, Disney costumes, and birthday gifts.
Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes
“This has the potential to create a houseless generation.
Democrats Want to Pay for the Whole Infrastructure Bill. It’s Self-Defeating and Doesn’t Even Make Economic Sense.
They just have to pay for the interest.
Top Trump officials pushed the Covid-19 lab-leak theory. Investigators had doubts.
New documents and interviews show how the president and his senior aides cherry-picked evidence and sidelined the government’s own virus sleuths.
New Alzheimer’s drug could be ‘devastating’ for Medicare
Aduhelm is the first drug to target Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years and will have cascading effects on health care costs.
Anti-vax groups rack up victories against Covid-19 push
Anti-vaccine fervor spread more widely during the pandemic as the U.S. government urged people to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Masha Gessen on the Biden-Putin Summit, Alexei Navalny & the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Geneva for a closely watched summit between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. Topics expected to be discussed include nuclear arms, cybersecurity, Syria, the Iranian nuclear deal, Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Korean Peninsula, Putin’s crackdown on dissent inside Russia and the U.S. military presence near the Russian border.
News Roundup: ACA remains law, GOP representatives disgrace themselves…a few times
It is Thursday! We are going into a historic weekend, commemorating the day when the news of slavery’s end finally came to Texas. It is a reminder that Texas lost the war, and for all of their pretend independence, they were Civil War losers who have always needed the United States’ support in order to exist with any autonomy.
The dumbest man in Congress wonders about FBI’s role in planning Jan. 6 insurrection. No, really
It’s not all that hard to influence Rep. Louie Gohmert. He’ll believe just about anything you tell him, so long as it’s outlandish, false, and simple enough for a 3-year-old child—or dog, or dining room table—to understand.
I’m guessing the number of Nigerian princes he’s helped out over the years approaches a baker’s dozen.
Jennifer Gosar says what many of us are thinking: Her brother, Paul Gosar, is responsible for Jan. 6
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is a very well-known dirtbag bigot. He has been one of the leading vacuous blobs of hate that has taken up the space left by fellow white nationalist former Rep. Steve King. Along with fellow fascist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Gosar has founded the America First Caucus—which is exactly the kind of racist and xenophobic drivel you might imagine it to be.
American business owners discover a remarkable solution to the worker shortage problem
Disgruntled business owners around the country have been complaining loudly about the lack of hired help available to them as the nation slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
At Long Last, Donald Trump Finally Admits: ‘We Didn’t Win’
But he did add ominously: “Let’s see what happens on that.
Black LGBTQ people are more likely to live in states that don’t protect against discrimination
LGBTQ people of color—and especially trans people of color—face disproportionate levels of harm, discrimination, and oppression when compared to cisgender, heterosexual populations—especially, white, cisgender, heterosexual populations. LGBTQ folks of color, however, also endure more harm than their white queer peers. For many of us, that information isn’t terribly surprising, though it is of course disturbing.