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How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility
The “best available advice” is usually what’s best for the C-suite.
The Government’s Response to the Coronavirus May Have Actually Cut the Poverty Rate
By some measures, livelihoods actually improved when the economy locked down. It’s up to Congress to keep them that way.
How McKinsey and Co. Became the Kings of Consulting
Working at a firm like McKinsey was once considered prestigious. Now, it’s complicated.
It Looks Like Congress Got One Big Thing Right in Its Coronavirus Response
New research suggests shoveling money at Americans during an economic crisis did the trick.
‘It’s going to be a slow slog’: Economists knock down hopes of quick rebound
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
Powell’s warning on pandemic clashes with Trump’s upbeat tweets
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
Kudlow says $600 additional unemployment checks will end in July
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
Fed sees need for more small business aid, citing ‘acute risks’ to survival
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?
As mass protests against racism and police brutality continue, at least five men — four Black and one Latinx — have been found hanging in public across the U.S. in recent weeks. We speak with Jacqueline Olive, director of “Always in Season,” a documentary that examines the history of lynchings through the story of Lennon Lacy, an African American teenager who was found hanged from a swing set in 2014.
America’s Uniquely Humiliating Moment
“He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Haydon had just been unmasked as a double agent at the heart of Britain’s secret service, one whose treachery was motivated by animus, not so much to England but to America. “It’s an aesthetic judgment as much as anything,” Haydon explained, before hastily adding: “Partly a moral one, of course.
Jamaal Bowman Ahead With Results Too Close To Call In Key New York House Race
Ballots in the Democratic primary are still being counted in Jamaal Bowman’s bid to unseat longtime Rep. Eliot Engel.
Massive Saharan dust cloud blankets Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico can’t catch a break. Still attempting to recover from Hurricane Maria, with power problems exacerbated by the recent earthquakes, COVID-19, and a failing healthcare system (thanks to U.S. government Medicaid funding inequities), now the island has been hit by a Saharan dust cloud.
Reports are being posted to social media from the island:
Sahara Dust on its way here to Puerto Rico. It’s the biggest wave we’ve ever gotten before.
Trump was able to make Washington, D.C. a police state because we failed to make it a real state
As anti-racism protests grip the nation, the citizens of the District of Columbia have endured a living nightmare under Donald Trump. Police attacked journalists with impunity; Washington, D.C. protesters were labeled as “terrorists” by the president; and unmarked, anonymous militias were unleashed on the people.
State Department mutes reporter on call meant to extol the values of the free press
Yeah, yeah. Irony remains dead, and so forth. You’ve probably already heard the latest Trump administration message-botching, but if you missed it: Yes, the State Department’s top spokesperson ordered that a reporter’s phone line be muted for asking a question she didn’t want to be asked, during a telephone briefing.
People with close ties to the Chinese government wanted access to Trump. So they bought it
In a tale now exceedingly familiar to the American people, certain foreign actors wanted to influence the American president, so they found a way to buy it and, guess what? They got access.
In this case, it appears the Chinese government enlisted certain political donors to make the connections, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump Spends Rally Downplaying Coronavirus And Making Racist Jokes
This is “hopefully the end of the pandemic,” Trump said in Arizona, which is averaging 2,500 new COVID-19 cases a day.
Biden campaign confirms he’ll debate Trump three times, at least if Trump doesn’t back out
Normal presidential campaign stuff like debates seems really, really far away in this pandemic-and-protest era, but former Vice President Joe Biden has confirmed he’ll participate in three debates with Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee will debate Mike Pence.
House Democrats tack to center with election year health care bill
The House Democratic plan is less ambitious than the platform put forward by Joe Biden.
Noose Found In Garage Used By NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace Was There In 2019: FBI
An investigation showed that a rope tied to look like a noose had been in Garage No. 4 of Talladega Superspeedway since at least October 2019.
The Phoenix Megachurch Where Trump Is Speaking Says Its Air Purifiers “Kill 99.9 Percent of COVID”
Trump chose the perfect megachurch for his “Address to Young Americans.
4 Years Later, Only 3 New Miles of ‘Wall’ And Not A Single Peso From Mexico
Trump visited Arizona to tout 212 miles of new fence — but only three were built where there was previously no barrier.
Fauci says White House told NIH to cancel funding for bat virus study
“Why was it canceled? It was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it,” Fauci said.
The Atlantic Daily: Four Major Factors Weighing on the Economy
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.THE ATLANTICEconomic collapse is over. Recovery is starting. But the shape of the rebound—whether it looks more like a V or an elongated U—is still uncertain. Years of miserable aftershocks could still lead to a second Great Depression, Annie Lowrey argues in a new piece.
Roger Stone Prosecutor Says DOJ Leaders Applied ‘Heavy Pressure’ To Cut Him A Break
Aaron Zelinsky will tell Congress that Stone “was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President.
Germany reckons with second wave risk
The working conditions of slaughterhouses are coming under scrutiny as they emerge as hotbeds for infections.
I’ve Suddenly Realized How Disgusting Sex With My Husband Is
How have I been doing this for eight years?