Many in the party are now coming around to what swing-district lawmakers have privately warned for weeks: that the Biden administration needs to drastically rethink its handling of Covid, particularly in the suburbs. Those vulnerable Democrats worry that ugly clashes over masks, school closings and vaccine mandates will crush them in purple districts this fall. … Read more
The number of drug seizures made by police in England and Wales rose by 21 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic, figures show. Police and Border Force made a total of 223,106 drug seizures in the year to March 2021 compared with 183,646 the previous year, according to Home Office data. A report, published on … Read more
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) speaks at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions January 11 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Greg Nash Pool/Getty Images) Rand Paul is a doctor-turned-politician. That should have made the Kentucky senator a valuable voice during a pandemic. Instead, the ophthalmologist has abandoned any claim to … Read more
Demanding more: Moms 4 Housing activist Misty Cross in front of the house in Oakland, Calif., that she and other local homeless mothers occupied in 2019. (Philip Pacheco / AFP via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. … Read more
google: In association with google, Since 2019, Rede Mulher Empreendedora (RME) has trained more than 200,000 Brazilian women through initiatives targeting the most vulnerable groups. The projects aim to minimize the economic impact on the female public, which is most affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. One of the programs made available is “Potência Feminina”, … Read more
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The number of adults suffering from depression has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, new figures reveal. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that nearly one in 10 (9.7 per cent) British adults experienced some sort of depression between July 2019 and March 2020. But when the same group was assessed again in … Read more
Having a baby, caring for a newborn, and recovering from childbirth are exhausting, stressful and often overwhelming experiences under normal circumstances. But for those who have babies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, safety precautions, health fears and social distancing create the perfect storm of isolation and anxiety that makes the postpartum period all … Read more
A person who carries plastic bags. | AP photo NEW YORK – Advocates of plastic bags see an opportunity in the pandemic that is turning almost every American into a germaphobe that eats hand sanitizers. POLITICO received a copy of a letter that the Plastics Industry Association sent the U.S. Department of Health last week … Read more