This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses.

Republicans have been running circles around Democrats for decades. But finally the right has handed them a potent weapon. Will they recognize it and use it?

We pay more attention when influencers are hospitalized after something they ate. But foodborne illness is incredibly common in the United States. Why is that?

The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.

For liberals, no state in the country feels more important in the November midterm elections than Georgia. Can Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock prevail?

Red states are using the Dobbs decision to reach into blue states to try to change our way of life. They want a culture war? Let’s give ’em one.

The Federal Reserve has only one tool to stem inflation. Congress has many. Why are politicians so reluctant to use them?

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely—and helped give rise to the crises we’re dealing with today.

Christopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to death.

Why are Democrats playing cat and mouse with student debtors?

He came in wanting to depoliticize the Justice Department. But does that mean letting an ex-president get away with subverting democracy?

Rents in New York City and around the country are at record levels. Is this forever?

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

The resort’s real magic lies in the powers it’s afforded by a special district.

TRUTH Social is supposed to compete with Twitter. So far, it’s been a mess. And Trump may go back to Twitter anyway. But it still could work out to be a killer grift.

The conservative justices are poised to demolish a half-century legal precedent on abortion rights—and they either don’t understand, or don’t care about, the anguish of unwanted pregnancy.

The United States banned the incredibly toxic pesticide DDT in the early 1970s. But it never went away.

Putin’s aggression is only part of the grim story of why democracy is in retreat.

Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.