By Elisabeth Rosenthal Nov. 19, 2020 As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know about how to live during our current pandemic. Do I think it’s safe to plan a real wedding next June? Would…
Read More When Will We Throw Our Masks Away? I Asked Dr. FauciMarissa Laliberte Updated: Dec. 18, 2019 You never turn it off. You don’t use a surge protector. Too many programs launch when you boot your computer up You never bothered to install antivirus Read more HERE.
Read More 13 Mistakes That Shorten Your Laptop’s LifeBy Angelina Chapin@angelinachapin One of the most notable trends to emerge from the 2016 presidential election was the large number of white women who helped solidify Donald Trump’s victory. Many of them lived in suburbs, and their support for a grab-’em-by-the-pussy candidate, despite his sexist, racist, and derogatory behavior on the campaign trail, was a dark…
Read More Of Course White Women Voted for Trump AgainDeniz Sahinturk Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 Are you a fan of Target? (I am.) Then you’ve probably noticed your shopping trips look a bit different than used to. Due to new health and safety regulations against the novel coronavirus, a lot of stores made modifications to their customer service—and Target is no exception. Read HERE.
Read More 7 Things You Won’t See in Target AnymoreGillian Brockell November 16, 2020, at 7:00 a.m. EST The incumbent refused to concede. He had lost reelection, by a lot, but he claimed it was only because of election fraud. He appealed his case to the courts and called on militias to defend him. No, this is not a story about President Trump, who…
Read More The Texas governor who refused to concede after losing a bitter electionThat the December 2020 issue of O Magazine will be the last print issue? That President Trump has yet to concede, even though it is clear that Vice-President Elect Biden has won? “That writing about whiteness is about as easy as it goes. There is a rigorous and completely Black subculture that Black people live in. But…
Read More Do you know (11/17)…Joel Shannon USA TODAY South Dakota’s high rates of COVID-19 and low virus regulation have sparked criticism even as some dying of the virus there don’t believe it poses a real threat. That’s according to Jodi Doering, a South Dakota nurse who has gained national attention for her account of working on the front lines in a state where leaders have long minimized the…
Read More ‘It’s not real’: In South Dakota, which has shunned masks and other COVID rules, some people die in denial, nurse saysBy Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Alyssa Fowers November 17, 2020 at 10:45 a.m. EST Eugenia Bradford believed her job was safe. After all, she was the only administrative assistant for college advising services at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Who else would schedule appointments or supervise work-study students if she were gone? But weeks before the…
Read More The lowest-paid workers in higher education are suffering the highest job lossesBy Allyson Waller Nov. 15, 2020, 3:34 p.m. ET In the 20-some years that people have been living aboard the International Space Station, its extended crew has never included a Black astronaut. Victor J. Glover, a Navy commander and test pilot who joined the astronaut corps in 2013, will be the first. Since the International Space Station’s inception…
Read More Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station.In a sense, the election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. Now, as Trump shatters yet another norm by refusing to accept the result of the vote count, the office’s structural weakness, one that allows chief executives to act in ways the framers of the Constitution never imagined, has been exposed. There are calls from…
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