One in 1.6 Million Chance That Yearlong Rise in Temperatures Is Random

FDA Approves Pfizer Boosters for Seniors and Those at High Risk

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Boosters will be made available for those over 65, health-care workers, teachers, and others who already received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Susan Collins Reminds Us She Is Hardly a Moderate

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By hedging her bets on abortion and endorsing a return to power by Paul LePage, Collins makes it clear her independence goes only so far.

What Jonathan Franzen and the Left Get Wrong About Free Speech

the national interest

By Jonathan Chait

Wait for an emergency to break ranks with your allies, and eventually it will be too late.

A 12th Person Has Died in NYC Jails This Year

By Nia Prater

Three detainees have died in two weeks, and all but one in 2021 were being held on Rikers Island.

What Joe Biden Needs to Tell Warring Democrats

It’s time for Democrats in Congress stop posturing, drop their demands, and heed Biden’s call for party unity – or they’ll face a grim future.

Two Disbarred Out-of-State Attorneys Might Blow Up the Texas Abortion Law

Taking advantage of Texas’s encouragement of private law suits with bonus money, the random challengers may have just triggered legal review of SB 8.

U.S. Releasing Some Haitian Migrants Within Country

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Deportation flights began on Sunday, but not everyone is getting the same treatment.

The Drama-Lover’s Guide to the New Trump Books

By Margaret Hartmann

Love gossip, but not enough to actually read the new batch of Trump books? Here are all the juicy, disturbing, and darkly amusing tidbits you missed.

$3.5 Trillion Is Not a Lot of Money

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By Eric Levitz

Joe Biden’s spending bill isn’t extreme, no matter what moderate Democrats say.

Second Woman Alleges Leon Black Raped Her in Epstein’s Mansion in Legal Filing

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A Jane Doe claims she was sexually assaulted by the billionaire in Jeffrey Epstein’s massage room in 2002.

NYC Crypto Conference Jolted By Rumor of Feds Serving Subpoena to Panelist

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A speaker might have been served before going onstage Monday at Mainnet, as the cryptosphere awaits regulation from SEC chair Gary Gensler.

The Horrifying Legal Blueprint for Trump’s War on Democracy

the national interest

By Jonathan Chait

The Eastman memo is a new high-water mark in Republican authoritarianism.

McAuliffe Is Going With the Newsom Playbook in Virginia

McAuliffe will hammer Youngkin on COVID-19 measures, abortion, and Donald Trump, while the Republican will count on the natural midterm trends.

The Infrastructure Bill May Be Bipartisan, But Republicans Won’t Help Save It

Since the value of this bill to centrist Democrats is strictly its bipartisanship, what does it say that Kevin McCarthy will happily watch it die?

9/21/2021

The remote work bubble

Last week, The Atlantic commissioned a poll from Leger, asking Americans to estimate how many people had worked from home during the pandemic. The results weren’t entirely surprising: Those working remotely tended to overestimate how many other people were doing the same.

Seventy-three percent of survey respondents who had teleworked because of the pandemic guessed that at least half of Americans had done the same. But the actual number of people who worked remotely because of COVID-19 was, at its highest point, roughly 35 percent, way back in May 2020. Let’s skip ahead to last month: About 90 percent of surveyed respondents who worked from home in August because of the pandemic guessed that at least 40 percent of Americans did too. In reality, only 13.4 percent worked from home in the final month of summer.

Another Truth About Remote Work

—The Atlantic