Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?

Why are so many people drawn to stories and videos of the unvaccinated dying of Covid-19—and, at the final moment, wishing for the vaccine?

His terrific speech Thursday constitutes his bet-the-presidency moment. Will enough Americans roll up their sleeves?

At long last, the White House is acknowledging that America can’t afford to respect personal choices in a pandemic.

The president waited too long, but now he’s getting serious about fighting Covid-19.

A dubiously sourced account that confirmed many liberals’ assumptions about rural Americans taking horse medicine was too good to check.

Hurricane Ida, wildfire evacuations, and Orlando’s oxygen shortage all show that we need policy solutions to address multiple crises at once.

The cynical rise of a scam Covid-19 cure-all

The president must master a period fraught with fear, doubt, cynicism, and uncertainty to keep his ambitious plans alive.

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.

Stopping Covid-19 aid programs early ignores what has worked to keep people safe, housed, and freed from debt as a global health crisis rages on.

Fears about a spike in abuse were proved wrong. Now mothers with firsthand experience of the system want to transform its approach to family safety, which is rooted in racist surveillance and carceral intervention.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

The GOP-driven dysfunction of the Badger State is a window into the party’s illiberal plans for the country.

We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

The network never should have let Chris Cuomo “interview” his brother last spring or advise him on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations.

The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.

Earlier this year, the press deemed the Florida governor a political “winner” of the pandemic. Now his state is a Covid epicenter.

The next six months of this pandemic may look dispiriting. But that doesn’t mean we’re doomed.