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MORE Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention hosted by the AFL-CIO at the Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona, Iowa. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY 2.0) Joe Biden announced his picks to lead transportation, climate, energy and environmental policy this week and it’s making progressives pretty happy. But what will they be able to get done in a closely divided Congress? Josh Barro talks with panelists K. Sabeel Rahman and Lanhee Chen about the choices and the hope for a big bipartisan infrastructu...

ThyBlackMan.com) Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly and reluctantly, admitted that yes, Donald Trump was right. Banning in-person school education to fight COVID-19 was and is bad policy. Kristof wrote: “Some things are true even though President Trump says them. Trump ...

comments Earlier this month, San Francisco implemented a new stay-at-home order banning city-dwellers from seeing another person outside of their households. While the act of dating wasn't explicitly mentioned in the order, many took this opportunity to assume that dating was canceled. Nearly a week later, the city quietly updated its order stating that people were allowed to meet with one other person outside one's household. Two people could take a walk, hang out at the park, or — according to the order's wording — "play low-contact sports like golf, tennis, pickleball, and bocce ball ...

Scientific American With the festive season ahead, Nature examines what is known about the risks of COVID spread and how researchers will spend their time off Print Airline Passengers are seen at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Thanksgiving as travelers are ignoring CDC warnings to avoid holiday travel while COVID-19 cases are surging across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic on November 25, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Credit: Alamy Advertisement As worldwide coronavirus cases continue to surge, countries are grappling with how to manage big public holidays such ...

What Happens If Outdoor Dining Pauses in New York? Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images COVID-19 numbers are surging, and beginning tomorrow, Los Angeles County will shut down outdoor dining for at least three weeks. Indoor dining was already closed, and outdoor dining was only allowed at 50 percent capacity, but officials were clear about what would end in-person dining in California’s most populous county: if the average number of daily new cases hit 4,000 over a five-day period, or if hospitalizations reach 1,750 in a given day. Now, that’s happened. With a 6.1 percent tes...