President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors has sparked outrage in Iraq and in the United States. Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqis in 2007, when contractors for the mercenary firm opened fire on civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square.
President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq.
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. It was one of the deadliest disasters in history, and the one all subsequent pandemics are now compared with.At the time, The Atlantic did not cover it.
The day after the 2016 election, I got a phone call from an old friend. Neither of us had slept much, and we spent most of the conversation exchanging shell-shocked comments of the Can you believe this? variety. Before we hung up, his voice took on a trace of irony. “Well,” he said, “this is going to be great for your career.”I waved the remark away, but I knew he was probably right. My contentious relationship with Donald Trump was already paying professional dividends.
The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons. Homer, a high-school graduate whose union job at the nuclear-power plant required little technical skill, supported a family of five.
As a White House resident, President Donald Trump is a goner. But his stranglehold on the GOP seems as tight as ever: Three in four Republicans say they believe their man won the 2020 election. Can the GOP channel the energy of his most fervent supporters and advance a sort of Trumpism without Trump? The answer depends on what Trumpism is—a populist prototype, a personality cult, or something stranger.To some, Trumpism marks the beginning of a new Republican Party.
Or should I leave the past where it is?
No. 1 on this list should be mask up and social distance. But we assume you know that by now.
Cities splintered in the pandemic, but only some Americans got to enjoy a hyperlocal utopia.
If he’s willing to do a coup, he’s probably willing to do this.
Boosted unemployment insurance? Check. A continued eviction moratorium? Check. Checks? Check. But there’s still much more that we need.
It’ll only be enough if the vaccination effort doesn’t blow it.
Larry Hogan and Gretchen Whitmer say they have few regrets about their handling of the pandemic so far.
“It really depends on what the travelers do when they get where they’re going.
Distrust isn’t the only barrier to a successful vaccination campaign.
She started becoming more distant and less affectionate toward me.
Parenting advice on miscarriage, divorce, and friendship.
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
The president has thrown the fate of the bill into jeopardy.
Congress curbed the central bank’s emergency lending despite the economy’s continuing struggles.
Biden added that the appointees have “broad viewpoints on how to build a stronger and more inclusive middle class.
Officials said they expect the U.S. economy to shrink by 2.4 percent this year, a brighter forecast than they offered just three months ago.
The world-renowned British novelist John le Carré died on December 12 at the age of 89. Le Carré established himself as a master writer of spy novels in a career that spanned more than half a century. He worked in the British Secret Service from the late 1950s until the early ’60s, at the height of the Cold War — which was the topic of his early novels.
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At the Brookings Institute, Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler write—Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers:
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated record profits for America’s biggest companies, as well as immense wealth for their
$600 can keep you in the peanuts for a few weeks but it won’t keep you afloat in the “Richest Country In The History of the WORLD.
As the year comes to a close, a lot of publications are rounding up the best books (or movies, or episodes of TV shows, and so on) of the year. In a period when most of us could really, really use a distraction from current events or personal tribulations, books can especially serve as a saving grace. Unfortunately, not all books get the limelight and attention they deserve.
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has been making the media rounds Monday to encourage voters to turn out in support of Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ahead of the state’s runoff election.
