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Covid-19 vaccines are readily available and restrictions have been lifted across the country, but the pandemic is far from over. In fact, it’s starting to get worse. According to The New York Times, the daily average case rate has increased in 46 of 50 states over the past two weeks. …

Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky revealed he has tested positive for Covid-19. The diagnosis was shared via an Instagram post from his account on Tuesday. The news comes months after Pinsky, who is known as Dr. Drew, apologized for downplaying the virus when he suggested it was a “press-induced panic” and …

In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by investigative journalist David Sirota. For the “Republicans Suck” segment, Matt and Katie cover every angle of the story on everyone’s mind, Donald Trump vs. Covid-19. This includes a play-by-play of Trump’s, according to …

Interstate 35 is a six-lane scar that runs through the middle of Austin. To the south, the highway runs all the way down to the Mexican border. To the North, it zig-zags up to Minneapolis, where, on May 25th, Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, handcuffed and asphyxiated a black …

OK Go released a new song on Wednesday in honor of frontline health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by both the nightly cheer for essential workers at 7 p.m. and by a recent Rebecca Solnit essay in The Guardian. The track, “All Together Now,” was written and recorded …

Spike Lee has shared a “love letter” to New York in the face of the coronavirus pandemic with New York New York, a three-minute short film soundtracked by Frank Sinatra’s classic Big Apple ode. Filmed on grainy Super 8, the first two minutes of the short travels from Brooklyn to …

With baseball season effectively over, Americans have a new favorite national pastime: shaming people on the internet for not properly socially distancing. Whether it’s a viral (albeit arguably misleading) photo of a crowded park on a sunny day or people wagging their fingers at joggers on the street, the narrative …

Benee may have written “Supalonely” about a toxic relationship, but it’s evolved into a perfect alt-pop quarantine anthem. The 20-year-old New Zealander, real name Stella Rose Bennett, dropped the track late last year; last month, it caught fire on TikTok, comforting those in lockdown with its lyrics about isolation. “I …

During an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was all over the map while answering an extremely important question — was the coronavirus man-made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China? “There’s enormous evidence that that’s where this began… I can tell you that there …

President Trump and his allies have settled on a new strategy for defending their weak response to the novel coronavirus pandemic: Attack China. On Tuesday, that strategy took the form of Trump’s announcement that he would freeze funding for the World Health Organization. At a White House press conference, Trump …