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Joe Manchin Demands Changes To Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
The West Virginia senator maintains that the corporate tax rate should go up to 25%, rather than 28%, to pay for infrastructure improvements.
‘I Fed Him To The People’: Trump Fan Indicted For Dragging Cop Into Capitol Mob By The Neck
Jack Wade Whitton, known to online Capitol attack sleuths as “Scallops,” helped set off the “Sedition Hunters” community. The feds want him held until trial.
Arkansas governor vetoes ban on youth transgender care
The Republican warned the measure amounted to government overreach, but Republican lawmakers are likely to override his veto.
April Blooms: Spring Is on the Way
Spring started about two weeks ago, and the Northern Hemisphere has begun to warm, with flowers and trees in bloom. Gathered here today, a small collection of images from the past few weeks from North America, Asia, and Europe, of tulips, sunshine, and cherry blossoms—surely signs of warmer days to come.
The Urgency of Vaccinating Kids
Kim Hagood hates needles. But as a middle-aged adult with chronic conditions, she got vaccinated against COVID-19 without delay. “I never thought I’d be so excited to get a shot,” she told me, giddily, hours before her appointment. A single mother in Trussville, Alabama, Hagood is less certain about vaccinating her 10-year-old son when the time comes.
The Biggest Party of 2021 Is About to Start
A lot can change in 17 years. The last time the cicadas were here, the virus behind the SARS outbreak had finally retreated. George W. Bush was campaigning for his second presidential term, and Myspace had commenced its meteoric rise. Tobey Maguire was still the reigning Spider-Man.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Kid Is Terrified of Being Caught in a Mass Shooting
Parenting advice on shooting anxiety, flaky Zooms, and sperm donor worries.
MLK Opposed “Poverty, Racism & Militarism” in Speech One Year Before His Assassination 53 Years Ago
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 53 years ago, on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 39. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor, organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice, and was a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War.
Ethiopia Accused of Using Rape as a Weapon of War in Tigray as New Evidence Emerges of Massacres
We get an update on how the Ethiopian government has announced Eritrean forces are withdrawing from the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, where harrowing witness accounts have emerged of Eritrean soldiers killing Tigrayan men and boys and rape being used as weapon of war by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers. Eritrea entered the Tigray region to support Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s military offensive in November targeting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
World’s Poorest Nations Face Setback as India Suspends Vaccine Exports Amid Fight over Patent Rights
We look at the urgent push to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for all nations, rich and poor, and growing calls for Big Pharma to waive their patent rights, as COVID-19 cases soar in India and the Modi government has suspended exports of coronavirus vaccines to many of the world’s poorest countries that depend on AstraZeneca vaccines it produces.
9 Pieces of Advice to Help You See Relationships More Clearly
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 look-back at Dear Therapist columns, I’ve decided to turn not to a specific theme, but to a handful of columns that have been reader favorites over the years.Rereading them, I understand why.
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
Gérard DuBois
This article was published online on April 5, 2021.In October 2012, in the second year of the Syrian civil war, a 44-year-old freelance journalist named Theo Padnos crossed from Turkey into Syria with two young men he thought were his friends. Padnos made friends easily and indiscriminately: In 2006, he was in Yemen researching a book about foreign converts on the path of jihad, and he showed me around when I arrived in the country.
U.S. searches for new AstraZeneca vaccine producer after Emergent mix-up
Officials are telling AstraZeneca to cut ties with Emergent entirely, a senior health official said.
Covid survivors look to turn grief into lobbying clout
The lobbying groups have an ambitious agenda: more funding for research, treatments and some form of compensation for the Covid-related deaths of more than half a million Americans.
Joe Biden Picked a Good Time to Become President
The opportunity for a competent administration to do something historic was helped by timing, weather, and, yes, Trump.
What Two Dealers and One Smoker Think of New York’s New Weed Laws
“We’ve already been f—ing smoking weed the whole time.
L.A. Cleared One of Its Largest Homeless Encampments. Is It the Start of a Crackdown?
Activists fear the police-enforced closure will inspire similar actions across the city.
What Was VW Thinking With Its “Voltswagen” Prank?
After its diesel fraud, the carmaker tries lying to reporters about its electrical vehicle marketing.
The Past Year Has Been a Small Nightmare of Recurring Charges
It’s time to see if you can cancel your gym membership
Pharmacies score customer data in vaccine effort. Some are crying foul.
Pharmacy chains hope information from vaccine seekers could translate to new business, while privacy watchdogs are calling for restrictions on the data.
Matt Gaetz’s Book Praised Trump For Ending ‘Family Man’ Attitude In White House
The Trump administration was a “good time to be a fun-loving politician,” the Florida Republican wrote.
‘The Narrative Is, “You Can’t Get Ahead”’
Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter, receive in Evanston, Illinois, where her mother’s family history goes back five generations.
This Multipurpose Japanese Knife Will Become the Hero of Your Garden
The Nisaku Hori Hori is now $20, or 23 percent off.
Biden’s spending plans collide with a resurgent U.S. economy
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.