The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some ugly aspects about the inherent social disparities that many Americans simply tolerated—until the intrusion of a deadly, equal-opportunity virus seeped into virtually every corner of American life, making those disparities so obvious that ignoring them has become impossible.
College football is no exception.
In a legally ambiguous move, the president turned to executive orders while negotiations between Democrats and Republicans remain at an impasse.
The governor initially tested positive for the virus ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump.
Running a vote-by-mail election is surprisingly complicated and there’s a “leaky” pipeline for mail-in votes in many states, experts have warned.
A White House source revealed Donald Trump’s plans to sign an executive order involving economic relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
William Faulkner and his wife, Estelle, stand outside their home, in Oxford, Mississippi, in the spring of 1955. (Bettmann / Getty)In June 2005, Oprah Winfrey announced a surprising choice as the 55th selection for her influential book club. The coming months would be, she proclaimed, a “Summer of Faulkner,” focused on three of his novels—As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August, available in a special 1,100-page box set weighing in at two pounds.
Simone Noronha“To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves,” Elena Ferrante observed in a 2002 interview. “Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.
A few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice held a press briefing in her office to talk about the threats she saw on the horizon as Barack Obama’s presidency drew to a close. “What keeps you up at night? one reporter asked toward the end of the meeting. Her answer: a pandemic that spirals out of control.
America has botched its coronavirus response in so, so many ways since the pandemic began. Even in a country that stands apart from the world for its horrific failures, there have been as many leadership bungles as there are states: Some failed to heed early warnings. Others refused to learn the lessons of outbreaks that came before theirs. Still others played politics instead of following science. And then there’s Georgia.Georgia’s response to the pandemic has not been going well.
Despite the continued spread of the coronavirus, many colleges around the country plan to welcome students back to campus over the coming weeks.Colleges want to reopen for good, nontrivial reasons. Administrators believe that most students learn better when they are physically assembled in the same place. And they know that the American college experience, at any rate, has long been about more than the classroom.
Jim Tankersley visits Slate Money to talk about his book on America’s middle class.
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
Forty-three percent of voters say they’d take a vaccine based on the advice of Anthony Fauci.
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
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.
The pace of job creation slowed in July, and unemployment remains above 10 percent. New jobless claims remain above 1 million per week.
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
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.
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood.
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.
News of scientific developments now reaches a much wider audience in this pandemic. But not all science news is created equal, and the difference between a meaningful study and a meaningless one is often distinguished only through terms many Americans aren’t familiar with.
Oprah Winfrey and her crew at O, the Oprah Magazine not only featured Breonna Taylor on one of the magazine’s final covers, the first ever O Magazine cover to feature someone other than the media mogul herself in 20 years of publication, they are going even further in their quest for justice for Breonna Taylor and her family.
Sign and send a petition to Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer: Fire all the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s murder.
House Republicans can’t sue to block the proxy voting system adopted by a full vote of the House (over unanimous Republican opposition) to keep members safe during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit, writing that “the House unquestionably has the authority, under the Constitution, to ‘determine the rules of its proceedings.
