As schools grapple with the pressure of President Donald Trump’s threat to reopen or else, one Indiana public school became one of the first in the nation to actually do so last week. And the end result was that doors weren’t open 24 hours before a positive coronavirus case was reported.
Trump’s aides are worried that the president’s 2020 re-election campaign is starting to run out of time.
As the economy reels from the effects of ongoing pandemic bungling, you may be wondering how America’s valuable and important corporate executives are doing during these trying days.
Fine. They’re doing just fine.
A new survey reported by the The New York Times shows that few public companies have cut executive pay during the pandemic and it’s resulting massive layoffs.
Jason Miller twice declined to say whether Trump is accepting or will accept foreign aid, calling the question “silly” before finally answering.
New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation, with 8.9 million residents living in the fourth-smallest state in the U.S. From the Skylands, to the Palisades, to the farms and cranberry bogs, and down the Jersey Shore to Cape May, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of New Jersey and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
In March, we were all living in 15-day increments. Working from home and distance learning, for those who had the terrible luxury of such things, would be a weeks-long affair, surreal but temporary. Fifteen days to flatten the curve. Fifteen days to slow the spread.Scientists warned us even then that a return to normalcy would take longer, but the telescoped timeline had obvious appeal. You can put up with almost anything for just 15 days.
In the winter of 1975, a quiet young woman from Lexington, Kentucky, met her Ph.D. adviser in Brown University’s writing program for a series of unsatisfactory tutorials about an ambitious project of hers that had yet to fully reveal itself. The encounters were strange enough that her adviser still recalled them in an interview a quarter century later: “I was doing all the talking, and she would sit rigidly, just bobbing her head in a regal manner.
Over the years, I’ve frequently mentioned my friend Michael Jones, a computer scientist and geography whiz. Nine years ago, he was a leading figure in my Atlantic story “Hacked,” the saga of what my wife Deb and I learned when her email account was taken over by international hackers. For an Atlantic column around the same time, I interviewed him on the way omnipresent, always-available mapping was likely to change people’s habits and lives.
Parenting advice on socializing without kids, babysitting, and grief.
On a Friday morning in April 2019, a guard at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, entered a cell occupied by Idrissa Camara, a 31-year-old immigrant from West Africa, and informed him that he had a visitor. Camara wasn’t expecting anyone, but figured it might be his wife, Arri Woodson-Camara. Typically, detainees are allowed to speak with visitors only through a pane of glass in a narrow visiting room.
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
Automatic stabilizers: learn them, live them, love them.
Two years ago, the camera maker got into cryptocurrency.
Health care alone accounted for 26 percent of the plunge in economic activity.
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
The government initiative aims to provide 300 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine by January 2021.
Progressives are insisting the party embrace “Medicare for All” in grim times.
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
The government could ease this fall’s child care crisis and fight COVID with one simple trick.
How can I convince my fiancé we shouldn’t live in fear and that we should just have fun and celebrate our love already?
Plus: Home Schooling 101 with three moms who taught their kids long before the pandemic.
They’re blaming my girlfriend for my refusal.
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
When the economy was tumbling in the second quarter, Trump pumped up the third quarter. Now the high hopes are slowly deflating.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
In his stirring eulogy at the funeral service for Congressmember John Lewis, President Barack Obama said expanded voting rights would be the greatest way to honor the civil rights icon’s legacy. In a speech that condemned the status of American democracy without ever naming the sitting president, Obama called for election day to be declared a national holiday, full Congressional representation for Washington, D.C.
As mourners gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to honor the life of Georgia Congressmember John Lewis, among those who spoke was civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson, who helped to train John Lewis in nonviolence when Lewis was a student in Nashville. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once described Rev. Lawson as “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” Lawson invoked John Lewis’s life as a call to action.
