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A Story Of Hero Worship And Connection Runs Through 'What Is The Grass?'

Acclaimed poet Mark Doty's memoir is not only an exaltation of America's troubadour, Walt Whitman, but also a celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry.

Drag Me To Gettysburg: (l to r) Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela and Eureka O'Hara take small-town America by storm on HBO's We're Here.

'We're Here': It's Queer. You Could Get Used To It

Three charismatic drag queens storm a series of small towns in HBO's six-episode reality series that's better at documenting joy than jerking tears.

Some businesses that want to stay open say it's hard to do so when employees can make more money by staying home.

Bitter Taste For Coffee Shop Owner, As New $600 Jobless Benefit Drove Her To Close

The new federal benefit is designed to cushion the blow of the pandemic. But some businesses that want to stay open say it's hard to do so when employees can make more money by staying home.

President Trump, flanked by Vice President Pence, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House on Thursday.

President Trump Says Distancing Guidelines May Need To Be Extended

The White House's pandemic task force spoke Thursday following more reports about record unemployment connected with the disaster.

Now is the Time! Jazzfest Berlin Streams Live This Week, From Brooklyn As Well As Berlin

Jazzfest Berlin has seen its share of changes since first taking flight, as Berliner Jazztage, in 1964.That inaugural edition is perhaps best known today…

Stephanie Byers, pictured here as a 2018 GLSEN Educator of the Year, won her 2020 race for the Kansas state House of Representatives.

Trans And Nonbinary Candidates Set Record Wins In Red And Blue States

In 2020, transgender candidates continued to win elections. In Kansas, one winner, Stephanie Byers, says voters seemed more concerned with her policy than with her gender identity.

Gen. Gustave Perna, shown hear at a Senate confirmation hearing in June, tells NPR that if a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December, "10 to 30 million doses of vaccine will be available that we can start distributing" in the United States.

Operation Warp Speed's Logistics Chief Weighs In On Vaccine Progress

Gen. Gustave Perna says as soon as the FDA deems a vaccine safe and effective, his team is ready to coordinate deployment of tens of millions of doses as early as next month.

President Trump, seen at a Nov. 1 rally in Rome, Ga., will return to the state to campaign for Republicans in Senate runoffs as he seriously considers another bid for the White House. Other possible 2024 GOP candidates have campaigned in Georgia recently.

Georgia Senate Runoffs Lure Possible 2024 GOP Hopefuls, Including Trump

The president is set to campaign in Georgia this weekend as he weighs another run in four years. That could upend the ambitions of several other Republicans visiting the state recently.

Jaromy Floriano Navarro says she was coerced to have unwanted reproductive surgery while in immigration detention, and alleges that she was deported for speaking out about it.

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody

More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

The image depicts the coronavirus binding to a human cell. The variant identified in the United Kingdom has a mutation known to increase how tightly the virus binds to human cells.

How Worried Should We Be About The New U.K. Coronavirus Variant?

Mathematical modeling suggests that the mutations in this variant make the virus more transmissible. What does that mean for preventive measures — and the new vaccines?

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