“This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain,” read the tweet, posted by Boris Johnson. Underneath, the prime minister was pictured staring resolutely into the camera, both thumbs up in the air. The date was January 2, 2020—11 months ago, but seemingly from a different world.
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Jason Furman is professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. At Foreign Affairs, he writes—The Crisis Opportunity. What It Will Take to Build Back a Better Economy:
[…] The natural disaster is not over.
One of the many good things about a new president is that most, if not all, of the people one associates with the last president leave office. That includes the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. DeVos came into her position, like most of the Trump Cabinet, based on either being a billionaire or having close relationships with billionaires. Like most billionaires, DeVos has been successful at one thing: Making a billion dollars.
Today the United States blew by two grim pandemic milestones. The country recorded a record 195,695 coronavirus cases and reported 100,226 hospitalizations, passing the 100,000 mark for the first time, according to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. While the 2,733 deaths today did not break the all-time record, this was the first day since May with more than 2,500 deaths, as well as the day with the second-most deaths so far.
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide hits West Virginia, a once solidly blue state that has become one of the most Republican areas in the country. You can find our complete data set here, which we’re updating continuously as the precinct-level election returns we need for our calculations become available.
The Atlantic was recently forced to retract a story about adolescent athletics after it was found aspects of it were fiction and there was a deliberate attempt to deceive readers. The 6,000-word article, originally published under the byline of Ruth S.
On Tuesday, Michigan lawmakers dedicated more than six hours to allowing evidence-free testimony on the unproven and, frankly, unprovable election fraud claims of Trump supporters. A good summary of these kinds of events came from a man named Bill Schmidt, who according to The Detroit News, had considered himself a lifelong Republican before this year’s election.
“Evil can be seen by evil people,” he said.
Appearing at a “Stop the Steal” rally, the conservative firebrand implied once again that the state’s voting machines are not trustworthy.
The California lawmaker grilled the Treasury secretary over his plan to move billions of dollars approved for COVID-19 relief into the general fund.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
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 inboxCHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTYThe Trumpian vortex isn’t what it used to be. Weeks after Donald Trump’s defeat, the current is slowing: The president is commanding far less attention in his last weeks of office.That’s not, as my colleague David A.
Trump lost the popular vote to President-elect Joe Biden by 7 million votes and the Electoral College tally by 74 votes.
Updated at 9:46 p.m. ET on December 2, 2020.This article contains spoilers through the series finale of The Undoing.The Sunday finale of The Undoing was the most-watched episode of any HBO show since the last episode of Big Little Lies. The Undoing is a whodunit about the murder of a woman found, by her fourth-grade son, with her décolletage displayed and her face in pieces. Sex sells, according to the old advertising adage. Clearly violence does too.
“If you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in a protest, you can also go to a Christmas party,” President Donald Trump’s press secretary said.
New Mexico’s governor is no longer the favorite to lead the department at the center of Biden’s pandemic response.
As the number of cases of COVID-19 worldwide nears 65 million, and the number of deaths attributed to the disease approaches 1.5 million, many countries are enduring a crushing surge in numbers. The toll on health-care workers, families, and the victims of the disease has been enormous. Gathered below are photographs from around the world of the current battle against COVID-19, taken over the past few weeks.
The president’s freshly pardoned ex-national security adviser retweeted a statement advocating suspending the Constitution.
The majority leader wants to send Americans a big lump of coal.
She’s literally bursting into tears.
He’s come out before. But this time is different.
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne.
For his incoming economic team, President-elect Joe Biden has picked several people associated with the investment giant BlackRock, which has been called “the fourth branch of government.” This includes his choice of Brian Deese, a former adviser to Barack Obama, to be his director of the National Economic Council. Deese was the global head of sustainable investing for BlackRock, which is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $7 trillion in its portfolio.
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic advisers this week, setting the tone for his administration’s recovery plan, including Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress think tank, as head of the Office of Management and Budget.
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
He wants us to spend our little free time together, but I’d rather be on my own.
Parenting advice on unfair discipline, bad words, and college choices.
In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill.
Slate Money talks Janet Yellen, Simon & Schuster, and United Way Worldwide.
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
