Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.UPDATE: After a sustained period of criticism, The Lancet took the unusual step of showing that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine increased mortality among patients with coronavirus.Three of the study’s authors had requested the retraction after outside observers raised questions about the study’s data. In an sent to The Lancet last week, more than 100 doctors pointed to many possible flaws in the study’s methodology and inquired about the transparency of Sugisphere, the company that had collected the study’s data —...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.UPDATE: After a sustained period of criticism, The Lancet took the unusual step of showing that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine increased mortality among patients with coronavirus.Three of the study’s authors had requested the retraction after outside observers raised questions about the study’s data. In an sent to The Lancet last week, more than 100 doctors pointed to many possible flaws in the study’s methodology and inquired about the transparency of Sugisphere, the company that had collected the study’s data —...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Twelve days out from judgment day in an election in which he , President Trump continues to hammer home an issue that will surely resonate with that small slice of still-undecided voters: his supposedly unfair treatment at the hands of CBS’s Lesley Stahl. After two days of promising to release unedited footage of an as-yet-unaired 60 Minutes interview, during which he walked out prematurely because he was upset with Stahl’s line of questioning, the president finally followed through on Thursday.Near the beginning of the...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Twelve days out from judgment day in an election in which he , President Trump continues to hammer home an issue that will surely resonate with that small slice of still-undecided voters: his supposedly unfair treatment at the hands of CBS’s Lesley Stahl. After two days of promising to release unedited footage of an as-yet-unaired 60 Minutes interview, during which he walked out prematurely because he was upset with Stahl’s line of questioning, the president finally followed through on Thursday.Near the beginning of the...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Karen Bass is the latest in a line of last-minute contenders to be Joe Biden’s running mate, but longtime front-runner may not have too much to worry about. I chatted vice-presidential intrigue with political columnists Jonathan Chait and Ed Kilgore.Ben: We’ve covered and in previous chats (you both possess warm feelings toward both). What do you make of Karen Bass, who, by many accounts, has — but who now faces scrutiny over her apparent enthusiasm for Scientology and ?Ed: Like a lot of the bouts of buzz we’ve seen recently, I...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Karen Bass is the latest in a line of last-minute contenders to be Joe Biden’s running mate, but longtime front-runner may not have too much to worry about. I chatted vice-presidential intrigue with political columnists Jonathan Chait and Ed Kilgore.Ben: We’ve covered and in previous chats (you both possess warm feelings toward both). What do you make of Karen Bass, who, by many accounts, has — but who now faces scrutiny over her apparent enthusiasm for Scientology and ?Ed: Like a lot of the bouts of buzz we’ve seen recently, I...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.As debilitating power outages stretch on in Texas, I spoke with New York editor-at-large David Wallace-Wells about what the dire situation signifies about our extreme-weather future — political point-scoring aside.Ben Hart: As Texas experiences extremely this week, the state’s electrical grid is straining. Millions have been without power, and some power companies have ordered rolling blackouts to manage demand. Public officials don’t seem to have a good handle on when the lights will go back on. To your eye, does what’s...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.As debilitating power outages stretch on in Texas, I spoke with New York editor-at-large David Wallace-Wells about what the dire situation signifies about our extreme-weather future — political point-scoring aside.Ben Hart: As Texas experiences extremely this week, the state’s electrical grid is straining. Millions have been without power, and some power companies have ordered rolling blackouts to manage demand. Public officials don’t seem to have a good handle on when the lights will go back on. To your eye, does what’s...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Talking with national political correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti about the unfolding drama in Georgia’s two special-election runoffs.Ben: Everything’s coming up Warnock and Ossoff right now. No official calls have been made, and it still might be awhile before we get one, but election data guru that Warnock has his race against Kelly Loeffler in the bag, and that Jon Ossoff . Have Democrats you’ve been talking to gone past the “guarded optimism” phase at this point?Gabriel: Yeah, no one is celebrating yet, but their...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Talking with national political correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti about the unfolding drama in Georgia’s two special-election runoffs.Ben: Everything’s coming up Warnock and Ossoff right now. No official calls have been made, and it still might be awhile before we get one, but election data guru that Warnock has his race against Kelly Loeffler in the bag, and that Jon Ossoff . Have Democrats you’ve been talking to gone past the “guarded optimism” phase at this point?Gabriel: Yeah, no one is celebrating yet, but their...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The Georgia special Senate elections are nigh, but the central subject in the state is President Trump’s jaw-dropping with Brad Raffensperger. I spoke with national political correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti about how Trump’s flailing attempts to overturn the state’s presidential-election results might hurt Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.Ben: President Trump continues to insist that he won Georgia in November, and throughout the campaign for the runoff elections there, he has seemed much more interested in in the state —...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The Georgia special Senate elections are nigh, but the central subject in the state is President Trump’s jaw-dropping with Brad Raffensperger. I spoke with national political correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti about how Trump’s flailing attempts to overturn the state’s presidential-election results might hurt Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.Ben: President Trump continues to insist that he won Georgia in November, and throughout the campaign for the runoff elections there, he has seemed much more interested in in the state —...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.On Sunday night, after six days of , finally signed Congress’s . The $2.3 trillion bill includes for individuals and businesses affected by COVID-19, a wide range of other provisions that address the pandemic, and nearly $1.4 trillion in non-COVID spending that will keep the federal government operating until the end of fiscal year 2021, in September. Predictably, the president’s bluster around the bill added up to precisely nothing in the end. He did not get Congress to budge on any of his demands, instead caving completely...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.On Sunday night, after six days of , finally signed Congress’s . The $2.3 trillion bill includes for individuals and businesses affected by COVID-19, a wide range of other provisions that address the pandemic, and nearly $1.4 trillion in non-COVID spending that will keep the federal government operating until the end of fiscal year 2021, in September. Predictably, the president’s bluster around the bill added up to precisely nothing in the end. He did not get Congress to budge on any of his demands, instead caving completely...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.President Trump is no amateur at getting strangers to hand over their money under dubious pretenses — witness , Trump Vodka, and all other manner of schemes from his checkered business career. So when he lost the presidential election a month ago, there was a natural transition to using his defeat as a get-richer-quick scheme.and report that Trump has raised more than $150 million from small donors after the election — which, you may recall, he lost — in large part by hyping quixotic efforts to change or overturn the results....…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.President Trump is no amateur at getting strangers to hand over their money under dubious pretenses — witness , Trump Vodka, and all other manner of schemes from his checkered business career. So when he lost the presidential election a month ago, there was a natural transition to using his defeat as a get-richer-quick scheme.and report that Trump has raised more than $150 million from small donors after the election — which, you may recall, he lost — in large part by hyping quixotic efforts to change or overturn the results....WW…

With time running out in which to stall , some state-level Republican officials are attempting to overturn the results of a “fraudulent” election, which one recently ousted cybersecurity official as the “most secure in U.S. history.” In Nevada on Tuesday, this involved a lawsuit filed by Nevada’s electors — the chair of the state’s Republican Party — suing to annul Biden’s 33,596 vote lead and grant the state’s six Electoral College votes to Trump. In Michigan, state officials went a step further on Tuesday, when the two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers...…With time running out in which to stall , some state-level Republican officials are attempting to overturn the results of a “fraudulent” election, which one recently ousted cybersecurity official as the “most secure in U.S. history.” In Nevada on Tuesday, this involved a lawsuit filed by Nevada’s electors — the chair of the state’s Republican Party — suing to annul Biden’s 33,596 vote lead and grant the state’s six Electoral College votes to Trump. In Michigan, state officials went a step further on Tuesday, when the two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In an appearance that fell into the even-more-unhinged-than-usual category, President Trump appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show Thursday morning to rant about the supposedly low character of his opponents and the alleged conspiracies arrayed against him.The president told a vigorously nodding Bartiromo that Biden was not “mentally capable” of lasting two months as president, and then, in an attack on Kamala Harris’s position on fracking, referred to her as “this monster who was onstage with Mike Pence,” calling...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In an appearance that fell into the even-more-unhinged-than-usual category, President Trump appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show Thursday morning to rant about the supposedly low character of his opponents and the alleged conspiracies arrayed against him.The president told a vigorously nodding Bartiromo that Biden was not “mentally capable” of lasting two months as president, and then, in an attack on Kamala Harris’s position on fracking, referred to her as “this monster who was onstage with Mike Pence,” calling...WW…