Trump’s School Reopening Plan Begs an Upsetting Question

The Trump administration wants schools to fully reopen next month, leaving parents and school districts with an impossible decision. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       How Many Sick Children and Teachers Are Worth It? What About Dead Ones?   This week, the president and vice president, the First Lady, the education secretary, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and several Fox News hosts called on America's schools to fully reopen next month. It reminded Dan Sinker of February 25, the day the White House put out a singular message: Coronavirus was "under control." President Trump and his advisors telling everyone not to panic drove him to panic-buy six bottles of hand sanitizer and a giant pack of toilet paper, and pay close attention to COVID-19 case numbers. Three million cases and nearly 130,000 bodies later, it's clear it wasn't contained. The talk about reopening schools has given him that bad feeling again, except running out to CVS to buy six more bottles of hand sanitizer won't help assuage his fears. Here, he explains why the administration's hasty decision is absurd and dangerous. Read More           The Best Things to Buy From Lululemon's Summer Warehouse Sale   Over the last few years, Lululemon won over old-school Wall Street types and matcha tea-swilling millennials alike, proving few, if any, customers are impervious to its particular brand of unassuming athleisure. And now the label is back at it again, this time with a warehouse sale chock full of its signature sleek activewear—and there's some real heat available. Avidan Grossman hand selects the best of what's out there now. Read More           White House Personal Injury Lawyer William Barr Has Bungled This Thing Completely   Late Thursday afternoon, after Geoffrey Berman, the now-fired U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was done telling the House Judiciary Committee about the ways the Department of Justice functions under the command of White House personal-injury lawyer William Barr, the committee released Berman's opening statement. It is an altogether remarkable document. In discussing the circumstances of his departure, Berman explained that, under Barr, the DOJ pretty much functions as the first draft of a play by David Mamet. Charles P. Pierce dives into the statement, and explains what it says about our ever-dysfunctional DOJ (and its leader). Read More           The Mustache Is Thriving. But What Does It Say About Men Today?   Throughout their history, men and their mustaches have often met over masculinity, or the loss thereof. It's why mustaches raged in with the modern age: Industrialization, it seems, struck some as quite emasculating. In the past, the 'stache has tended to stand for something more than itself—but that just might be changing. John Ortved unpacks the rich history of what's happening atop men's upper lips, and why it's led to a modern boom that says something completely different than it used to. Read More           The 15 Most Popular Drinks in 2020   It's always a cool skill to know a few cocktails backwards and forwards and sideways, so when the time comes to make or order them, you don't look like, heaven forbid, a bar novice. Here, you'll find 15 of the most popular drinks that folks request from bartenders, as tallied by Drinks International and cross-referenced with our own library of classic cocktail recipes. Choose a few (or more than a few; we're no skimps ourselves) to master. Here's hoping they do their part to help you cope with the calamity and confusion that is 2020. Read More           They're Throwing the Lawless Traitor Out of the Place Where Laws Are Made   The halls of the Tennessee state capitol will no longer host a bust of KKK grand wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a former slave trader who became a Confederate lieutenant general accused of various atrocities, particularly at Fort Pillow. Already not a guy who needs a statue. After he lost the war—it's important to remember these people were losers—Forrest went on to become the Klan's first Grand Wizard. This guy ran the Ku Klux Klan, and they put his statue in the state legislature...in 1978. The state's capitol commission voted to remove the bust on Thursday, which is a big deal considering the same measure failed in 2017. It also seems like a big deal to everyone in the capitol awaiting the decision. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019