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Susan Rice Has A Mysterious Gap In Her Resume
Joe Biden’s potential running mate worked as a private consultant for foreign governments in 2001-2. It’s not clear who her clients were.
Ellen’s Celebrity Defenders Aren’t Helping Her
Famous people want the world to know that Ellen DeGeneres is nice to famous people. Addressing media reports alleging a culture of harassment and bullying at DeGeneres’s talk show, the singer Katy Perry tweeted Tuesday that she’s “only ever had positive takeaways from my time with Ellen.
Dear Diary: This Is My Life in Quarantine
The time we’re living through will one day become history. This is always true, of course, but the coronavirus pandemic has, perhaps more than any other event in living memory, made people hyperaware that their present will be remembered in the future. And this new, strange sensation has compelled many to capture the moment for posterity.The urge hit Janis Whitlock, a research scientist at Cornell University, when she was walking outside in early March.
I’m Tired of Hearing That Teachers Are Only Thinking About Ourselves Right Now. We’re Not.
I am wholeheartedly committed to my students. I recognize just how much is at stake.
Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
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.
“The Beginning of Our End”: On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
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.
Help! My Brother’s New Girlfriend Got Drunk at My Birthday and Stole My Cake.
I want an apology and a new cake. He says I’m being unreasonable.
Ask a Teacher: Zoom Brought Out the Best in Our Daughter. Should We Stick with It?
She was more curious, more independent, and more social online.
A growing side effect of the pandemic: Permanent job loss
More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound.
The Immersive Sounds of Audio Drama
Potato chip crunches, traffic noises, and accents from around the world.
Can You Really Get a Raise Right Now? A Negotiation Expert Says Do This One Thing.
You don’t need to be the most aggressive person in the room to win.
The Salmon Family’s Unusual Legacy
Generational wealth as seen through one family’s financial history.
The Extremely Boring Idea That Could Save the Economy
Automatic stabilizers: learn them, live them, love them.
Everything, Um, Unusual About Kodak’s Trump-Assisted Pivot to Pharmaceuticals
Two years ago, the camera maker got into cryptocurrency.
New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
Trump signs order aimed at boosting rural health care, telehealth
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
Vaccine project contract raises transparency questions
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
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.
Landmark Fed business rescue struggles amid economy’s woes
The problem? The Main Street lending program isn’t set up to bail out the companies that need it the most.
Coronavirus’ lost generation
For young people who grew up amid financial crisis, the pandemic is dashing hopes of job security and a comfortable future.
Eurozone economy shrinks by record 12.1 percent in second quarter
Spain was worst hit, followed by Portugal and France.
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.
Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants
In Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided the medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths and detained 30 migrants whose whereabouts are now unknown. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching Sonoran Desert.
Trump Campaign Busted For Deceptively Manipulating Biden Photos In New Ad
The new spot uses altered images of the former vice president.
Kanye West’s bizarre ‘presidential campaign’ seems little more than a Republican sabotage scheme
Most of us have never wasted a moment of our lives worrying about what Kanye West might be thinking, and are not about to start now. Suffice it to say West announced at one point he was running for president, is making few if any serious attempts to follow up on that announcement, and we’ll leave it at that.
What does exist of an actual West campaign, however, seems to be near-entirely a Republican ratfucking operation.
Another State Department inspector general falls victim to Pompeo’s scandal-ridden tenure
Yet another inspector general has abruptly left the State Department just two and a half months after the last one was ousted at the urging of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo himself.
Stephen Akard, who took over the agency watchdog position in May after Steve Linick’s ouster, is “returning to the private sector,” according to a statement from the State Department. Deputy Inspector General Diana Shaw will now face down Pompeo’s buzz saw.
The National Night Out when no one came out
We must recognize that our safety is tied to each other
By Zach Norris, executive director of the Ella Baker Center and author of We Keep Us Safe
On the first Tuesday in August every year since 1984, neighbors have gathered with other neighbors, with the police, and with elected officials to reclaim neighborhood safety. According to the National Night Out website, 38 million people have been affiliated with these events through the years.
The personal economy is the one in need of rescue
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a proposal mislabeled as a COVID-19 relief bill. I say “mislabeled” because the $1 trillion proposal includes little that will relieve people harmed by the pandemic. Full disclosure: I am not an economist.