The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert
The snow-day ritual is an old and familiar one on the East Coast.
On the night of a snowstorm, kids put a spoon under their pillow, wear their pajamas inside-out and flush ice cubes down the toilet - one for each inch of snow they re hoping for.
But now that the pandemic has left many of us with no need to leave our houses for school or work, thanks to virtual learning, Zoom meetings and a completely digital life, will the coronavirus take the snow-day ritual away, too?
January 27, 2021
On cue, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has signaled that President Joe Biden s administration is not prepared to seriously confront the complex and immediate threat communist China poses to American security and world peace. Earlier this month, incoming secretary of state Antony Blinken acknowledged communist China presents a formidable problem and added former President Donald Trump s administration was right in taking a tougher approach to China. The tough approach was helpful to U.S. foreign policy. For a Blinken moment, it looked as if the Biden administration might get China right, too. But in her Jan. 25 press briefing, Psaki soft-pedaled. The new administration, she said, starts from an approach of patience as it relates to our relationship with China. She then unloaded a dictionary s worth of Beltway jargon, promising consultations galore and an interagency process review in order to take a multila
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As part of a “third wave” of executive orders, on January 22, 2021, President Biden issued
an executive order instructing the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to “provide a report to the President with recommendations to promote a $15/hour minimum wage for Federal employees.” The Biden Administration announced via a Fact Sheet published on the White House’s website that the move is purportedly designed to ensure that the federal government is a model employer:
[Federal employees] keep us healthy, safe, and informed, and their work transcends partisan politics. They are health care workers who care for veterans, the elderly, and the disabled. They are expert scientists, medical doctors, and technicians who maintain world-class standards, prevent and combat the spread of infectious diseases, and save countless lives. They deliver our mail, run our national parks, keep our federal buildings u
, a series from Future Tense in which experts suggest specific, forward-looking actions the new Biden administration should implement.
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, at noon Eastern, Future Tense will host an online event to discuss what science, technology, health, and energy priorities the Biden administration should pursue. For more information and to RSVP, visit the
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Half of the federal IT workforce is either over the average federal retirement age of 61 or will be within the next 10 years, according to a recent federal report. There’s no shortage of young technical talent interested using cutting-edge skills like service design, user research, product management, data science and software development for public sector work yet only about 3 percent of federal IT workers are under 30. And just look to historical examples of the failed Healthcare.gov rollout in 2013 or the State Department’s visa system failure in 2015 to show why data and tech skills are necessary for implementing