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Like a lot of you, the pandemic has had me cooking a lot more at home. I must have made Ina Garten's lemon chicken breasts about 50 times. If I'm feeling more indulgent, I bake Martha Stewart's crispy apricot pork chops. (As with any pork chops recipe, it's important to buy good, not-too-lean chops.)I have improved ...

Vermont Governor Phil Scott recently announced that Black people, Indigenous people, and all people of color over the age of 16 and their households can now get vaccinated for COVID-19. As of Tuesday, non-BIPOC Vermonters have to be 50 or older to get the vaccine. Basically, a 30-year-old BIPOC Vermonter can get vac...

When then-Vice Presidential candidate Biden promised his family in 2008 that they'd purchase a puppy if he and Barack Obama won the presidential election, he surely could not have imagined the level of corruption this canine would bring to the White House.Indeed, "Champ" — a purebred German Shepherd who came from a ...

The Daily Beast reports that the White House has been having a lot of trouble with employees' history of marijuana use. Past drug use can be a barrier to obtaining a security clearance, and to its credit, the Biden Administration has taken a softer line on marijuana use, which is extremely common and no longer prohi...

It feels like a fever dream now, but for one week in late January all anyone in the media could talk about was Gamestop's skyrocketing stock prices. In case you've already driven the episode out of your memory, here's a brief recap: A Wall Street hedge fund had placed a big bet that America's biggest chain video gam...

Summary List PlacementIn the year since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down from their official duties as extensions of the British monarchy, scandalous, albeit unverified accusations came about from either side of the conflict. It all culminated in the royal couple's primetime interview with Oprah, which revealed allegations of racism and abuse. While the interview exposed the royal family's callous treatment of Harry...

Summary List PlacementNew York Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat representing part of Queens, has been one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's most vocal critics since the start of the pandemic. In particular, Kim has criticized the Cuomo administration's Health Department's order to nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients discharged from hospitals, and the administration's lack of transparency over the data related to nursing home deaths. ...

Summary List PlacementTo say that the COVID-19 pandemic was business as usual for someone who runs a VC fund is actually inappropriate: it was actually the busiest period since my cofounder and I started our firm three and a half years ago. At the height of the pandemic, not only did we lead 11 investments in four months but we were able to stretch...

Summary List PlacementIn a recent interview, President Joe Biden said the US will not return to the JCPOA, or Iran nuclear deal, until Iran stops enriching uranium first. A "US senior official" clarified the remarks, repeating a campaign line that Iran has to "stop enriching beyond the limits of the JCPOA" — not "all" enrichment. Understandably, diplomacy advocates were concerned by Biden's initial remarks,...

Summary List PlacementIt was a defense by way of a veiled threat. David Schoen, one of the lawyers defending twice-impeached former President Donald Trump said during an opening statement Tuesday: "This trial will tear this country apart, perhaps like we've only ever seen once in history." The "once in history" Schoen was almost certainly referring to was the Civil War, which resulted in upwards...

Summary List PlacementAndrew Cuomo made a mistake at the start of the pandemic.  That mistake may very well have contributed to the deaths of thousands of elderly New Yorkers, but there's no reason to believe when he ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients in March that it was anything other than well-intentioned and based on his best judgment.  The governor's judgment proved poor...

Summary List PlacementThe twentieth-century literary scholar and philosopher Kenneth Burke once wrote that, "The conventional forms demanded by one age are as resolutely shunned by another." Burke's point was that the ever-evolving nature of communication technologies continuously alters the forms of discourse that dominate our information landscape. In the past 10 years, the world has been undergoing a seismic change in this regard, as...

Summary List PlacementVice President-elect Kamala Harris on December 29 tweeted that she and President-elect Joe Biden "will get to work in the first 100 days to ensure Americans mask up, distribute 100M shots, and get students safely back to school." Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old San Diego-area resident who spent 14 years in the Air Force, tweeted in response to this completely uncontroversial message: "No...

Summary List PlacementJoe Biden has promised to unite Americans. It is an important task, and one that Biden's entire career has prepared him to accomplish as president of the United States. But there is one area where Biden ought to shun togetherness — at least for now — and cut a more independent path: foreign policy. Biden's instinct is to look for common ground,...

Summary List PlacementIt is high season for IPOs, initial public offerings of shares in hotly anticipated private companies, helmed by youngish CEO-entrepreneurs like Airbnb's Brian Chesky and Doordash's Tony Xu. These "gig economy" unicorns will command headlines in coming days and weeks for their multi-billion-dollar valuations, fueled by unanticipated pandemic bonanzas in their business. As is often the case, IPO parties attract a crowd....

Summary List Placement Americans are lucky, because they get to elect someone to the most powerful office in the world.  But Americans are also particularly unlucky to live in a country where getting an accurate and complete vote count for the most powerful office in the world can't be accomplished in a manner that isn't so easily exploited by a serially dishonest demagogue.  Our...

Summary List Placement The nation's largest police union used a two-year-old boy — whose mother had just violently thrown to the ground by Philadelphia police after breaking her car's windows — as a prop in a social media post. The family's lawyer called the post "propaganda...using racism and fear." More than five months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police,...

Summary List Placement Advertisers have long wanted to crack the premium video game market. But when it comes to shoving ads in front of gamers while they're actually playing games, brands have been uber cautious, opting to instead hanging around the fringes of the gaming world, aside from an occasional high-touch custom integration. So what happens when the three biggest digital ad companies on...