Emily Oster wants a pandemic amnesty. We should all forgive each other for the mistaken positions we’ve taken about how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes the Brown University economist who used her considerable platform to churn out teacher-blaming hot takes funded by the likes of Peter Thiel and the Walton Family Foundation.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that David DePape was on a “suicide mission” targeting several prominent state and federal politicians.
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.January 6 was not an outlier. Laughing over a hammer attack on an old man, the GOP has completed its transition from a political party to a brutal mob.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The former president stoked doubts about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband as he continues to recover from a skull fracture and other serious injuries.
One of the ironies of recent music history is that Migos, the band of Atlanta rappers who reshaped hip-hop in the mid-2010s, is known for something called the “triplet flow.” The term is musicological, describing the convulsive vocal cadence that took over pop thanks to them. But the term is also apt given that Migos were a trio related by blood.
Yasmin Tayag will join The Atlantic’s editorial team this month, when she will become a staff writer. Over the past year, in her work as a freelancer, Yasmin has contributed extensively to The Atlantic, including a number of pandemic-related pieces where she reported on the effects of Americans’ low booster numbers, how we can’t quit hygiene theater, and whether we should be masking again.
Yesterday, an hour and a half into the marathon hearings about whether colleges can use race as a factor in admissions decisions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson began to rub her temples as she looked down at her notes.“We’re entertaining a rule where some people can say what they want about who they are and have that valued in a system,” she said. “And I’m worried that that creates an inequity in the system with respect to being able to express our identity.
It was December of 1996 when Karen Lips turned up the first bodies—and finally felt an ember of hope. As a graduate student working in the muggy forests of Central America, she’d noticed that an as-yet-unnamed culprit had been stripping the area of its frogs. Regions that had once rung with a chorus of croaks were silent and still, but no one had found the carcasses that could speak to a cause.
Aid Access, a Netherlands nonprofit, is prescribing more abortion medication in the U.S. than ever, in defiance of state laws.
The city and state of New York have agreed to pay $36 million to settle lawsuits on behalf of two men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for decades for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were exonerated last year for the murder after investigators found “serious miscarriages of justice” in the case. They each spent more than 20 years in prison for a crime they did not commit, and Islam died in 2009 before his record was cleared.
As Israel holds national elections amid increasing crackdowns on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, we speak with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who is in Jerusalem and has been speaking with Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories. He is calling on Israel to end its decades-long occupation.
The majority-conservative Supreme Court appears poised to strike down race-conscious college admissions decisions, after hearing arguments Monday against Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The plaintiffs argued the admissions process discriminates against white and Asian American applicants by giving priority consideration to Black, Hispanic and Native American applicants.
Polls show voters care more about the economy than abortion. Democrats in the Rust Belt state argue the two can’t be separated.
The departure of Michelle McMurry-Heath comes just as the Biden administration is poised to begin implementing key drug pricing provisions and the balance of power could shift in Congress.
The November measure comes as health care advocates at the state level grapple with how to help residents with the rising costs of health care now that it appears Congress will be unable to pass any significant reforms to address the issue.
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
The budget gap shrank by half in fiscal 2022 as spending on pandemic programs expired and tax revenues surged.
The U.K. political drama will have ripple effects in the U.S.
The former Trump chief of staff refused to comply with two subpoenas issued by House lawmakers
The Trump-backed GOP nominee for Arizona governor made the joke days after Pelosi’s husband was attacked by an intruder searching for the House speaker.
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Russia has serious problems keeping their artillery operational.
Novolyubivka, Luhansk Oblast, footage of the Ukrainian HIMARS strike that destroyed a modern 5-gun Russian MSTA SM2 battery. https://t.co/4IcRG0royX pic.twitter.com/6wcnjFO96C— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 1, 2022
Daaaamn….
As former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway once suggested, if you don’t like the facts, just create alternative facts.
That’s exactly what Republicans and their pollsters are doing in several of this cycle’s most hotly contested races.
Take Georgia, for instance—until about Oct. 21 or 22, Democratic incumbent Sen.
The Republican attack on books written by LGBTQ authors may have met its match in an ally who spoke out at a Tennessee library board meeting last Wednesday. Up against claims that books exploring gender were “age-inappropriate” and attacks from community members who used the controversy to spread homophobic hate, Jessee Graham, a resident of Columbia, showed the Maury County Library Board she would not sit idly and let her community be torn apart.
El Paso Times this past summer reported a rising number of migrant deaths in the region, many losing their lives due to heat exposure and drowning in dangerous canals. That report said that at least 37 migrants had died in the region since October 2021, approaching the death toll of 39 during the previous fiscal year. Advocates in that report warned of “a major human rights crisis at the border.”
They have been horrifically, tragically correct.
My biennial election season freakout has begun! If scientists could find a way to harness my nervous energy in the days leading up to elections, they’d be able to power a small town for a year—or Rudy Giuliani’s liver for about 20 minutes. (Allegedly!)
But this year, along with my usual hefty slice of wry dread, I’m offering up something a little different: a message of hope.
Instead of obsessively refreshing 538.
“Look at the sewage that is online that they amplify on these networks,” the California Democrat warned.
Ohio Republicans are fighting what they see as a push for such access in liberal enclaves such as San Francisco and New York City.
The bipartisan bill would make it easier for evacuated Afghans to become legal permanent residents.
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.There’s been some—mostly silly—hysteria over Elon Musk finally taking ownership of Twitter. But there are reasons to be concerned, even if you’re not on the platform.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Emily Oster: Let’s declare a pandemic amnesty.