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Azar says states will decide who gets first Covid-19 shots
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
My Frenemy “Accidentally” Sent Me an Explicit Photo. My Reaction Surprised Me.
How do I respond to her?
U.S. consumer confidence tumbles as virus spreads
The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents a drop from a revised 101.4 in October.
How Will the Future Remember COVID-19?
Memorial designs by Rael San Fratello, Refik Anadol Studio, and Sekou CookeUnlike a war, a pandemic is invisible and diffuse. It’s everywhere and nowhere. Its death toll is ultimately unknowable. That makes a virus difficult to mark with physical tributes. Few memorials mark the 1918 Spanish flu; one is a modest granite bench built in Vermont two years ago, underwritten by a local restaurant also marking its own centennial.The coronavirus pandemic is not over, either. Not even close.
Republicans With Any Love of Country Must Acknowledge That Trump Has Lost
A democratic republic is a fragile thing. A large, diverse one such as ours is more fragile still.Conservatives, whose political philosophy is rooted in the importance of tradition and preserving institutions, should know this. Yet too many are ignoring the obvious damage that President Donald Trump has done—and continues to do—by denying his electoral loss.I write as a conservative, a lifelong Republican, and a committed member of the Federalist Society.
As 2020 Sets Grim Record for Trans Killings, Advocates Call for Holistic & Uplifting Media Coverage
At least 37 transgender and gender nonconforming people were violently killed in 2020, making it the deadliest year for trans and gender nonconforming people on record, according to a new Human Rights Campaign report. Of those killed, 22 were Black, and seven were Latinx. More than 200 trans and gender nonconforming people have lost their lives to violence since 2013, when HRC began recording and reporting violence toward trans people.
Betting Pool? Tyson Managers Bet on How Many Workers Would Get COVID. Advocates Call It Grim Pattern
The family of a former meatpacker who died from COVID-19 alleges in a lawsuit that managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa knew working conditions would result in illness, and even placed bets on how many workers would be infected. The family of Isidro Fernandez, who died in April, says the plant manager set up a winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager on coronavirus infections.
As Hunger Soars Across Nation, U.S. Trade & Foreign Policy Is Also Causing Hunger Across the Globe
As the U.S. enters the holiday season, millions of people across the country are struggling to find enough to eat, with the hunger relief group Feeding America warning that some 54 million U.S. residents currently face food insecurity amid a massive public health and economic crisis. Food insecurity in the U.S.
Juan González Remembers NYC’s Only Black Mayor David Dinkins & Vieques Activist Carlos “Taso” Zenón
We speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about the deaths of two leading figures he reported on: New York City Mayor David Dinkins and beloved Puerto Rican social leader Carlos “Taso” Zenón. “Most people forget [Dinkins] was a Democratic Socialist before democratic socialism was in vogue,” notes González.
Help! My Partner Did a Christmas-Themed Proposal. I’m Jewish.
He knows that I didn’t grow up with the holiday and don’t enjoy it.
My Dad Believes the Craziest Conspiracy Theories. How Do I Talk Him Off the Ledge?
A playbook for when your family falls down the rabbit hole.
So You’re Flying This Thanksgiving? Here’s Which Parts Are the Riskiest.
What to expect, and what risks you’ll take, from the moment you enter the airport.
The Steve Mnuchin and Jay Powell Breakup
Slate Money talks Steve Mnuchin, Affirm, DoorDash and Airbnb.
Steve Mnuchin Is Doing His Part to Sabotage the Biden Administration on His Way out the Door
The Treasury secretary is kicking the crutches out from under the economy before it’s ready.
How Wells Fargo Used Its Western Stagecoaches as a Shield
When scandal surfaced, the historic American bank’s preoccupation with its past helped keep it in denial about its present.
Fauci: Vaccines are an incentive to ‘double down’ on precautions
“We are in a very serious situation, but we can do something about it,” said Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
How thousands of scarce Covid shots could go to waste
The requirements of Pfizer’s shots create a “use it or lose it” situation.
FDA grants emergency use of Covid treatment given to Trump
The treatment is not authorized for patients who are hospitalized due to the coronavirus or who require oxygen therapy.
Biden’s big challenge: A growing racial wealth gap
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
The hangover awaiting Biden: Deep wounds from Covid-19
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
China shapes a new U.S. economic era: The return of industrial policy
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
“A Huge Blow to Civil Society”: Egypt Arrests Leading Human Rights Monitors in Latest Crackdown
In Egypt, the executive director of the country’s leading human rights group has been arrested as part of an unprecedented crackdown on activists and journalists. Gasser Abdel-Razek was arrested at his home just days after two other staffers for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights were also arrested.
Joe Biden Lights Up The Internet With Just 3 Letters On His New Website
This may be the surest sign yet that the formal transition is now underway.
Twitter Critics Can’t Even: Trump Reportedly Blames Legal Team For Making Him Look Bad
“It took him 34 losses to figure that out?
While Republicans play politics with American lives, Ben Carson was close to death
One of the numerous White House and Republican officials to contract the COVID-19 virus is HUD director Ben Carson. With the Trump administration news cycle adding years to every day, Carson’s condition was kept out of public. On Friday, Carson wrote on his Facebook page that his experience became very dire.
Carson wrote: “Thank you everyone for your support and prayers as Candy and I battled COVID-19.
‘Putting their lives at risk’: Coalition urges farmworkers be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine
The Desert Sun reports that as essential workers, farmworkers will likely have earlier access than most of the public to the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available for distribution. However, a coalition of California farmworker and health advocacy groups including the UFW Foundation (UFWF) say that farmworkers should be prioritized for vaccination at the same time as healthcare workers, who’ll likely be first.
Biden and Democrats try to lead while McConnell holds a hungry, sick, dying nation hostage
It’s been 191 days since the House passed the $3 trillion HEROES Act, and 55 days since the House passed their compromise $2.2 trillion bill, both of which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up. And in just 37 days, the fraying remnant of the safety net created by the CARES Act back in March will expire.