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When Talking to Your Mother-in-Law Is a Minefield
Avoidance speech requires speakers to refrain from using certain words when addressing in-laws.
Pandemic Profiteering: Amazon Caught Price Gouging as Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soared to $200 Billion
The online giant Amazon has made an extraordinary amount of money during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people shelter at home and shop online. A new Public Citizen report documents how Amazon set prices for essential products during the crisis at levels that would violate price gouging laws in many states, and marked up some products by as much as 1,000%. “This is an ongoing thing. They are doing this currently.
Why the Kids Are Definitely Not All Right
Instead of trying to plan where you ultimately want to end up, focus on taking the next best step.
Colonization Made California a Tinderbox: Why Indigenous Land Stewardship Would Help Combat Climate Fires
We examine California’s history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes in California would regularly burn the landscape to steward the land, but colonization led to the suppression of these tactics and decades of misguided policy.
“Mass Voter Disenfranchisement”: GOP Ramps Up Assault on Voting Rights Across U.S. Ahead of Election
With just seven weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, the battle for the White House is increasingly being fought in courts across the country. From Wisconsin to Florida, Pennsylvania to Colorado, judges are making major rulings deciding who gets on the ballot, how a record number of mail-in ballots are handled and distributed, and who ultimately gets to vote on November 3.
Businesses reject Trump payroll tax plan while postponing their own tax bills
Tens of thousands have taken advantage of provisions allowing employers to punt their payroll tax bills into next year and beyond.
How a Costume Designer Dressed Two Seth Rogens in American Pickle
Two costumes, two time periods, one lovable comedic actor.
There Are Two Oregons, and They’re Both on Fire
Will an unprecedented emergency finally heal the state’s factions?
Trump and Pence try a messaging reboot on economic recovery
After months of setbacks amid Covid-19, the White House used Labor Day to focus on worker resilience and tout pre-pandemic conditions.
‘A tale of 2 recessions’: As rich Americans get richer, the bottom half struggles
The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.
Trump’s rebound story meets mounting bankruptcies
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
Trudeau’s plan to revive Canada — and his political future
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
What Went Wrong with AstraZeneca’s Vaccine Trial? CEO Only Shares Details with Investors
As the world races to find a COVID-19 vaccine, one of the most promising vaccine trials has hit a major roadblock. AstraZeneca paused its Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial after a woman in the trial developed severe neurological symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis, or inflammation of the spinal cord.
The Great British Humbling
“The cretinous stupidity of it!” snaps the tragic hero in Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March as he faces up to his likely death in a duel over his wife’s honor. He did not want the fight and no longer loves his wife anyway, but the “stupid, steely law” of honor that bound his cavalry regiment left him no escape. In frustration, he sighs: “I don’t have the strength to run away from this stupid duel. I will become a hero out of sheer idiocy.
Monday Night Owls: Excerpts from Harper’s Index
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Here are some excerpts from the October Harper’s Index:
Percentage of registered U.S. voters who said in 2016 they would consider moving to Canada if Donald Trump were elected: 28
Number of Americans who have done so since then: 33,965
Percentage by which the annual number of people killed by U.S.
25 years wiped out in 25 weeks: Pandemic sets the world back decades
Progress on global health and the economy has regressed, Gates Foundation report finds.
Old Postal Service audit surfaces, shows DeJoy’s company may have gouged taxpayers for $53 million
It turns out Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has been scamming the United States Postal Service for decades, almost making it seem like sabotaging the institution has become his life’s work. A 20-year-old audit of contracts for mail equipment transport unearthed by NBC News shows that his old company was awarded multiple contracts in noncompetitive bids.
Miami University students admit they tested positive for COVID-19 but hosted party anyway
As colleges across the country open only to close amid the novel coronavirus pandemic due to outbreaks on campus, schools nationwide are blaming students for being irresponsible. The actions of some students who are not taking the virus seriously have affected students across the country.
Whistleblower complaint charges ICE center with performing mass hysterectomies on prisoners
A new whistleblower complaint, which can be read here, has been filed against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency charging “jarring medical neglect” inside the Irwin County Detention Center, in Georgia. The facility is a private prison, run by LaSalle Corrections.
Maine’s first Senate debate makes one thing very clear: Collins belongs to Trump
The first debate in Maine’s hotly contested Senate race is in the books, happening this past Friday night. It provided a clarifying moment for voters in the state, according to the state’s preeminent political commentator, Bill Nemitz. There weren’t fireworks, but there was a dogged determination on the part of Republican Susan Collins to dodge the issue of this election: Donald Trump.
White House blocks Navarro from testifying to House panel about ventilator deal
Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to President Donald Trump, wrote to Krishnamoorthi on Sept. 9 that the White House would not make Navarro available.
Trump Has Head-Scratching Solution For California Wildfires : ‘It Will Start Getting Cooler’
“I wish science agreed with you,” California official Wade Crowfoot told the president.
‘We Weren’t Alarmist Enough’: Experts Warn Trump And GOP Could Destroy Democracy
They rang alarms about the rise of authoritarianism in America in 2018. It’s only gotten worse since then.
Help! My Boyfriend’s Sister Acts Like I’m Her Romantic Rival.
“She told me they had fulfilled the emotional role of romantic partners for each other for years.
Despite Trump Fearmongering, Republicans Push Absentee Voting In Mailers, Robocalls
The GOP is trying to clean up the president’s comments so that its party doesn’t ignore voting by mail entirely.
The Atlantic Daily: Alexander Vindman Speaks
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.SASHA ARUTYUNOVAA telephone call demolished Alexander Vindman’s life.Vindman, who was famously on the line when President Donald Trump asked Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, served as a key witness during Trump’s impeachment trial.
Police Chief Praised Officer For Political Attack On Senator They Charged With Felonies
Portsmouth, Virginia, chief Angela Greene thanked a sergeant for blasting state Sen. Louise Lucas and then signed off on his charging her under an obscure law.
CDC: Testing for STDs plummeted during pandemic
Many sexual health clinics closed their doors or cut back services when the coronavirus began spreading widely in February.