Coronavirus’ lost generation
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
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What Happens to Small Companies Now?
Earlier this week I mentioned the surprisingly important role that craft brewing had played in downtown renewal across the country over the past decade. And I talked with one of the pioneers of that movement, Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Company, about how this part of America’s startup economy was likely to fare.Here are reports from two companies of a similar spirit but entirely different scale from Koch’s nationally distributed Samuel Adams brand.
U.S. government awards $2.1B to Sanofi-GSK coronavirus vaccine
The government initiative aims to provide 300 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine by January 2021.
Barack Obama: Honor John Lewis by Renewing Voting Rights Act & Ballot Access in the U.S.
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.
Rev. James Lawson: John Lewis’s Life Is Call to Action Against U.S. Violence & Plantation Capitalism
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.
Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Remembered at Funeral as “Patriot Who Risked His Life” for Democracy
As family, friends and dignitaries paid their final respects at the Atlanta funeral of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and 17-term Georgia Congressmember was remembered as a singular force for equality and justice. The funeral took place at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, once led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where senior pastor Rev.
Help! I Don’t Want to Postpone My Wedding Again.
How can I convince my fiancé we shouldn’t live in fear and that we should just have fun and celebrate our love already?
Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
The Republicans Have Written a Pro-Virus Relief Bill
The legislation is so pathogen-friendly it might as well have been brought to us by the lobbyists at Big COVID.
Adrian Tomine’s Drawings Tell Rich, Complex Stories
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
Emerging Markets and COVID-19
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
‘This is health care moonshot time’: Pandemic pulls Biden, Dems further left
Progressives are insisting the party embrace “Medicare for All” in grim times.
30,000 Americans receive Covid-19 vaccine in major test
It will be months before results of the test can be concluded.
Trump’s fragmented pandemic response may undermine push to address racial disparities
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
Sinclair to delay segment featuring ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy theory
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
Chris Christie cashes in on coronavirus lobbying
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
Dear Care and Feeding: My 7-Year-Old Niece Says She’s Friends With the Devil
Parenting advice on creepy phases, Olympic dreams, and biology vs. adoption.
Is It Possible to Have Sex During Quarantine Without Our Nosey Kids Hearing?
Everyone is home all the time, and we’re going crazy!
U.S. suffered worst quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy
When the economy was tumbling in the second quarter, Trump pumped up the third quarter. Now the high hopes are slowly deflating.
40 million Americans face student loan cliff
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
How the Child Care Crisis Will Distort the Economy for a Generation
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
‘Oil on the inequality fire’: How slashing jobless aid could widen the wealth gap
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Housing market defies expectations amid economic turmoil
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette on His Friend John Lewis, Freedom Rides & Practicing Nonviolence
We revisit civil rights leader and Congressmember John Lewis’s early years of activism with Bernard Lafayette, one of Lewis’s closest friends and collaborators. Lafayette participated with Lewis in the first Freedom Rides of 1961 as they attempted to integrate buses and faced brutal beatings by white mobs, and was a fellow leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Photos of the Week: Stari Most, Flaming Jet, Hug Kit
An open-air school in Kashmir, preparing for Eid al-Adha in Bangladesh, a Comic-Con blood drive in California, idle fishing boats in China, a Navy Day parade in Russia, wildfires in Portugal, a successful Mars rover launch, a sparsely-attended Hajj in Saudi Arabia, outdoor opera in Greece, a farewell to the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, and much more.
Trump Maneuvers To Protect Robert E. Lee’s Name In Secretly Recorded Phone Call
Trump was recorded talking to Sen. James Inhofe about keeping Lee’s name at military sites, and The New York Times got the tape.
Militiamen’s reactionary presence at protests threatens democracy, and police appear on their side
For most of its existence, the “Patriot” militia movement has been described by those monitoring its spread as “antigovernment”—which isn’t fully accurate, since most of its adherents openly say that they don’t have a problem with government regulations in such areas as abortion and “law and order.
It didn’t start in Portland. There’s a long history of secret police
by Jack Herrera
For a few days in Portland, Oregon, this month, it wasn’t clear who was abducting protesters and journalists. The heavily armed men rushing out of unmarked vans and grabbing people off the sidewalks wore army fatigues and bulletproof vests. They looked like U.S. soldiers, but, then again, they also looked like the far-right militia members who have appeared at many protests in recent years. Information was murky and chaotic.
This Week in Statehouse Action: Summertime Badness edition
Did you know that we’re only 95 days away from Election Day 2020?
There was some hubbub earlier this week as the 100-days-out-from-the-election point passed, but that’s not actually significant outside of the fact that 100 is a big round number.
Nevertheless, each day that passes brings us closer to the final election before the next round of redistricting.
Victory for Pennsylvania immigrants blocked from completing citizenship process due to pandemic
More than 2,200 Pennsylvania immigrants who were part of a class-action lawsuit demanding the Trump administration allow them to take their naturalization oaths after their formal ceremonies were either canceled or not scheduled at all due to the novel coronavirus pandemic should now be able to vote in November.