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Less than 24 hours after Mississippi‘s Republican Gov. Tate Reeves tried to dismiss the threat that Covid-19 poses to children, an eighth-grader in the state died from complications due to the virus. “If you look at those individuals under the age of 12, what you find is that it is …

The dark winter that health officials warned about is upon us. As news of the coming Covid-19 vaccines has brought optimism that the pandemic may be manageable in the near future, the grim reality of the daily mounting death toll will be with us for at least the next few …

Lame-duck President Donald Trump spoke to the nation on Friday afternoon, his first public comments since Joe Biden was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential race. Trump’s remarks, made from the White House’s Rose garden, were typical: he overstated his administration’s role in the recent positive news on a …

I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013, immediately following a summer tour with my band. It was a nightmare. I’m a full-time songwriter, and my specific type of tumor — an “acoustic neuroma,” which sits on one’s hearing nerve, causing terrible damage to the surrounding real estate — …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Wearing face masks and social distancing have become a new normal for many Americans, as more than half of U.S. states have instituted mask mandates and other safety …

Willie and Annie Nelson are teaming up with Paul Simon and Edie Brickell for A Night for Austin, a television and livestream benefit to aid the Texas capital during COVID-19. Premiering on June 10th at 9 p.m. E.T., the two-hour benefit will feature performances by Nelson, Simon, James Taylor, Bonnie …

Kiss co-founder and frontman Paul Stanley has devoted the last few years to his new project, Soul Station, a 17-piece ensemble tribute group that performs R&B and soul classics. For most of its existence, Soul Station has been a live music project, performing their catalog at smaller venues and clubs. …

In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Aaron Maté, host of Push Back, to talk about the resurfacing of the Russiagate story and how it’s helped Trump. Matt rants about the recent “leak” of Barack Obama talking to former members of …

This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. There’s a refrigerator in the kitchen of Eleven Madison Park designed specifically for ducks. They hang in rows, hooks through their heads, ready to be rubbed down with honey and lavender, and plated like pieces of modernist art. …

This is the eighth installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronavirus pandemic. On March 3rd, Victor Alarcon traveled to Rovaniemi, in the Finnish Lapland, a region so frigid and remote that it proclaims itself the home of …