The board game “Puerto Rico” begins after everyone around the table receives a mat printed with the verdant interior of the game’s namesake island. Players are cast as European tycoons who have trekked across the Atlantic at the height of the Age of Exploration. “In 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered the easternmost island of the Great Antilles,” read the back of the game box that once sat on my living-room shelf.
Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a GOP Texas congressman, asked reporters why they weren’t demanding Democratic politicians reveal their vaccination status.
When Barbara Klump ran into homeowners on trash-collection day, she would tell them that something very special was happening in their suburb of Sydney. She meant the birds. The big white ones?, the residents asked. The birds that are always opening trash cans and making a huge mess? Yes, those, the sulphur-crested cockatoos.
Donald Trump Jr.’s highest-performing Instagram post of the year (so far) is a piece of misinformation. Shared in March, it’s a black square with “THIS IS A TEST” written in red across the top. “Instagram has been limiting our posts so that no more than 7% of our friends see our posts,” it reads. “If you see this post, please simply comment with ‘Yes’ and then like it.
Rep. Ronny Jackson was hoping to deflect attention from the huge number of Republicans who aren’t vaccinated or won’t say if they are.
Donald Trump has been gone for months, but Republicans are still beholden to him.
The new steps come as new cases and hospitalizations continue to spike while vaccination rates have stalled.
It’s not shocking that someone who is young and thin is still young and thin when they’re no longer dressed as troll, a devil, or a lichen-covered rock.
As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men overwhelmingly dominate the airwaves on climate coverage. We speak with co-editors of the new book “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays by 60 women at the forefront of the climate justice movement. “We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media,” says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab.
As the world’s richest man flies his Blue Origin rocket into suborbital space, here on Earth calls are growing to tax the rich and let Amazon unionize. Billionaire Jeff Bezos has faced strong criticism after Tuesday’s flight, for which he thanked Amazon workers and customers who “paid for all of this.” Bezos traveled to the edge of space just days after another billionaire, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, took a similar trip on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft.
Should I just bow out of the wedding?
Teacher advice on skipping grades, pre-K, and red-shirting.
Even though Covid hospitalizations and deaths are surging in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just barred counties, cities and school districts from requiring masks.
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
Even the GOP senators who are supposed to be the sane ones.
She left me $6,000. I’m now homeless.
Thank Democrats for the hottest meme this side of Cannes.
But he acknowledged Japan’s path through the pandemic toward the Olympics had gone “sometimes backward at times.
Less that half of those who have not been vaccinated are worried about the contagious Covid variant.
I’m questioning my own judgment.
She’d be in for a big surprise.
Parenting advice on body image, neighbors, and excessive gift-giving.
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumor.
National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumor.
In the news today: Not only is the pandemic not over, the nation is in the middle of a new pandemic surge. Wear your masks, and get vaccinated as soon as possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today rejected the appointment of two Republicans to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection after signals that both of them were appointed to obstruct, rather than assist, the probe.
