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“I’m not a racist”: White woman apologizes after calling police on black birder in Central Park
Roger Sollenberger
"I'm not a racist," Amy Cooper says in a new interview. "I did not mean to harm that man in any way"
Kushner wants to remove word “freedom” from GOP platform in effort to appeal to black voters: report
Roger Sollenberger
Kushner leads a campaign task force working to shorten a 58-page party platform to one that fits in your pocket
With 100,000 dead and 39 million out of work, Trump trolls the libs — and his fanboys love it
Amanda Marcotte
The nation is in crisis. Our president is busy calling women "skanks" and floating false murder theories
Amid pandemic, campaigning turns to the internet
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
The coronavirus has ground the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump to a near halt.
Fintan O’Toole on America the “pitiful,” corrupted by Trump’s malignant spectacle
Chauncey DeVega
Irish author and critic on the "suspension of disbelief" that has made Trump's destruction of America possible
How a company misappropriated Native American culture to sell health insurance
Fred Schulte
Tempting low premiums may mean skimpy coverage with huge out-of-pocket expenses.
How not to cover a pandemic: Talk shows favor government sources, ignore health experts
Julie Hollar
Sunday morning shows in April overwhelmingly favored political dispute, with almost no coverage of health issues
Microsoft’s ambitious climate goal forgets about its oil contracts
Maddie Stone
A single collaboration with ExxonMobil has the potential to inflate Microsoft's yearly carbon footprint by 21%
Trump’s food aid program gives little funding to areas hardest hit by coronavirus
Isaac Arnsdorf
New York and New England have the most COVID-19 cases but received the second-lowest funding of any region
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred a quiet frenzy of union organizing
Hamilton Nolan
Nonprofit workers are part of an unprecedented uprising of labor organizing in white collar professions.
Republican lawmaker booted from legislative session for refusing to wear a mask
Alex Henderson
The House voted on a motion to throw Bailey out of the session, and it passed 81-27
Joe Biden was right about black people and Trump — and the left needs to get past purity tests
Chauncey DeVega
Biden's inartful phrasing was essentially correct — and progressives must face the urgency of this situation
CDC revises its guidelines on surface contact, prompting an outbreak of misleading headlines
Matthew Rozsa
The CDC recently revised its guidelines about touching surfaces, causing an outbreak of misinformation
Robert Reich: A tale of two pandemics
Robert Reich
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.
Celebrated to death: Memorial Day is killing us
Erik Edstrom
In a country besieged by the coronavirus, perhaps it’s time to come up with a new definition of patriotism
Dubious state testing numbers may be screwing up national CDC reports
Roger Sollenberger
Some states have been combining viral and antibody testing data, leading to messy or useless national statistics
Why veterans are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic
Jamie Rowen
Here are eight ways the pandemic threatens veterans
How the pandemic is affecting home food waste
Bridget Shirvell
As people are cooking more than ever before, an expert offers tips on how to waste less food
Fundamentalist pandemics: What evangelicals could learn from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Juan Cole
Given the unpredictable nature of our world, nothing, secularization included, is a one-way street
How lingering fears from the pandemic could change the way we watch and play sports
Josh Woods
Long after a crisis recedes, residual anxiety can remain and become calcified in cultures, customs and institutions
Sarah Palin nuked Greenland and the president guzzled Clorox: Who’s to blame for this timeline?
Andrew O'Hehir
We crack wise about the "worst timeline." But aren't we just trying to duck responsibility for this horror show?
4 ways COVID-19 has exposed gaps in the U.S. social safety net
Paul Shafer
Americans without bank accounts may have delays in financial aid
Is it fair to question a presidential candidate’s mental fitness?
Matthew Rozsa
Both Biden and Trump exhibit signs of cognitive decline. But diagnosing from afar is a medical ethics no-no
Congress complains when Trump fires an inspector general — but it can’t do anything to stop him
Stanley M. Brand
President Trump isn't the first president to get rid of inspectors general.
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