In the 1989 surrealist satire Chameleon Street, two Black men bicker after one says that he prefers women with light skin and “good hair.” After being criticized for the comment, the man makes a self-deprecating joke: “I’m a victim, brotha. I’m a victim of 400 years of conditioning. The Man has programmed my conditioning. Even my conditioning has been conditioned.
A political battle is brewing in Washington, D.C., over plans to build a National Museum of the American Latino and the portrayal of American Latino history.
As part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that ousted democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende and led to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President Gabriel Boric visited Washington, D.C., Saturday to deliver a historic address. He spoke at the site where former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier was assassinated in 1976 by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship, along with his co-worker Ronni Moffitt.
Key takeaways from POLITICO’s “Confronting America’s Opioid Crisis” live event in Texas.
Most Americans with public and private health insurance can still get the shot for free, as long as they visit in-network providers.
CMS announcement comes as states review program eligibility for the first time in three years.
Health experts are sounding the alarm over the anti-vaccine movement’s rise.
The United Auto Workers announced a strike at three plants — one each at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — overnight.
A super PAC affiliate is spending $13 million far ahead of the normal advertising timeline.
The president leaned into his achievements at a Labor Day event in Philadelphia, but a new poll reflects widespread disapproval.
Fears are growing of another U.S. government shutdown as soon as October 1, with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unable to overcome opposition from far-right lawmakers in his own party to pass spending measures to keep the government funded. For more on what’s happening on Capitol Hill, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California, who says the chaos of a shutdown will hurt many ordinary people as federal workers go unpaid and public services suffer.
The former president was mocked on social media for the confusion.
Menendez has insisted he will be “exonerated and continue to be the senior senator from New Jersey.
The names of those on the grand jury that indicted Trump last month were publicized. Threats soon followed.
Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott will take part Wednesday night.
Sherrod Brown and Peter Welch became the second and third Democratic senators to urge Menendez to step down as he faces bribery charges.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The U.S. government is on the brink of a shutdown, and the deadline for Congress to pass a new spending bill is September 30.
About 250 million years from now, living on the coast could feel like being stuck inside a hot, wet plastic bag. And that bag would actually be the best home on the planet. Inland areas would be hotter than summer in the Gobi Desert, and up to four times as dry. This is life on Pangea Ultima, the supercontinent that an international group of scientists has predicted will form on Earth in a quarter of a billion years.
Sign up for Kaitlyn and Lizzie’s newsletter here.Kaitlyn: We know it’s not called “the Windy City” because of the wind, but we don’t remember why it’s actually called that. Maybe it’s because, on our eighth annual fall trip, Ashley took me and Lizzie to her hometown of Chicago for a whirlwind tour of its most important sights. Hmm?We went to the Bean.
Editor’s note: This article is part of The Atlantic’s series on Books3. You can search the database for yourself here, and read about its origins here.This summer, I reported on a data set of more than 191,000 books that were used without permission to train generative-AI systems by Meta, Bloomberg, and others.
Editor’s note: This searchable database is part of The Atlantic’s series on Books3. You can read about the origins of the database here, and an analysis of what’s in it here.This summer, I acquired a data set of more than 191,000 books that were used without permission to train generative-AI systems by Meta, Bloomberg, and others.
Key takeaways from POLITICO’s ‘Transforming Health Care: Site-Neutral Payments & Billing Transparency’ live event.
On Friday, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife were accused by federal prosecutors of accepting bribes in exchange for using his position to increase U.S. assistance to Egypt and to do favors for three New Jersey businessmen, including Wael Hana, an Egyptian American who ran a lucrative business certifying halal meat exports.
A new damning investigation from ProPublica reveals Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas attended multiple fundraisers in connection with the billionaire Koch brothers, who have spent millions on conservative causes and funneled vast donations into Republican campaigns. “None of this was disclosed as it should have been on his annual financial disclosures,” says Justin Elliott, reporter for ProPublica covering Supreme Court corruption and ethics.
The Writers Guild of America has announced that a tentative deal has been reached between striking writers and Hollywood studios, four months after the strikes shut down production of scripted movies and television. The WGA leadership will meet Tuesday to vote on the deal, which includes many of the demands of the striking writers, including higher pay and residual payments for streaming content and new rules about the use of artificial intelligence.
Key takeaways from POLITICO’s “Confronting America’s Opioid Crisis” live event in Texas.
Most Americans with public and private health insurance can still get the shot for free, as long as they visit in-network providers.
CMS announcement comes as states review program eligibility for the first time in three years.
Health experts are sounding the alarm over the anti-vaccine movement’s rise.
Donald Trump’s recent moderate turn on abortion has boxed in the deep-pocketed anti-abortion groups.