President Trump’s latest executive orders to extend unemployment benefits and defer payroll taxes may be unconstitutional. Democrats had hoped to extend a program to give unemployed workers an additional $600 in weekly benefits and to extend a federal moratorium protecting some renters from evictions, but failed to overcome opposition from Republican lawmakers.
Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail. Since taking office, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a major Trump donor — has instituted a number of cost-cutting measures that have slowed down the delivery of mail, and overhauled the leadership of the agency in a move that critics say will give him more power.
The Lebanese government may be on the verge of collapse amid protests over the massive port explosion that devastated much of Beirut and killed at least 200 people and injured thousands. At least four ministers and nine members of Parliament have resigned.
Parenting advice on breastfeeding jealousy, family bedrooms, and misophonia at mealtimes.
Makan Delrahim briefly looked like a serious trustbuster. He proved to be yet another of the president’s political hacks.
Makan Delrahim briefly looked like a serious trustbuster. He proved to be yet another of the president’s political hacks.
Multiple daily check-ins. To-do list tyranny. Constant virtual monitoring. Too many managers don’t believe working from home is really working.
Concern about discrimination is rising as the pandemic swamps more states and tests hospitals and health systems in its path.
Concern about discrimination is rising as the pandemic swamps more states and tests hospitals and health systems in its path.
Jim Tankersley visits Slate Money to talk about his book on America’s middle class.
Two of the president’s ideas are useless, and none will rescue the economy. But some could actually help.
The economy reopened, it reclosed, and now it’s just stumbling along.
Give the agency the money it needs—and anticipate every single way Trump could mess with the mail anyway.
The governor initially tested positive for the virus ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump.
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.
“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.
“We live a lifestyle of readiness.
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.
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak,” says Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, a clinical psychologist and author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
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.
On Saturday Donald Trump announced, in a bizarre golf clubhouse speech to an audience of millionaires, a series of “executive orders” that he will (attempt to) undertake as substitute for negotiating new pandemic aid packages with Congress.
If Democrats don’t flip the Senate in November, we might as well just crown Sen. Mitch McConnell king of America, because he alone will control our country’s future. The progressive priorities we’ve waited to advance for years and the massive effort we’ll need to rectify the vast wrongs of the Trump years: All of this will die by McConnell’s scythe.
