Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

Readers have long bickered over what actually ails Dickens’s famous Christmas tyke, but there’s no argument about how we can help children like him.

The Covid variant came out of nowhere. Now it’s everywhere. And neither the government nor the people can stomach another round of severe pandemic restrictions.

Of course you’re tired of the pandemic. We all are. But succumbing to pandemic fatigue will condemn many to death.

New research has undermined many of the narratives in Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s book, “Viral.” But there’s always an idea around the corner.

It’s called the Congressional Review Act, and it helps the party that has no legislative agenda and just wants to undo stuff. It has to go.

Jen Psaki’s scornful response to the idea of free at-home tests reflects just how shortsighted the U.S. government’s response to Covid-19 still is.

By not getting these useful tools into everybody’s hands, we’re allowing the pandemic to flourish.

Conservatives in the pandemic era have revealed that their bizarre concept of liberty is incompatible with human life.

We have a chance to get this right this time. We know what to do. Do we have the will?

In the pandemic, reports of rat sightings have risen dramatically. But is it all in our heads?

Vaccines are making many holiday gatherings possible this year. But not everyone agrees on the acceptable level of risk.

New medicines are on the way in the fight against the pandemic, but these life-saving drugs might get trapped in a maze of bad policy.

Biden promised a more humane foreign policy, but advocates of sanction reform are waiting to see concrete action.

Nobody stands to gain more from vaccine mandates. Their opposition demonstrates their subservience to partisan Republicans.

The White House worried about backlash from the anti-vaxxer minority. As Virginia’s gubernatorial election shows, it should have worried about the Covid-weary majority.

The new OSHA pandemic regulations that just dropped are a work of semantic art with a conservative Supreme Court in mind.

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

Shams Charania and Adam Schefter showed why access journalism is a bankrupt and corrupt approach to newsgathering.

First the Covid vaccine, now a malaria one: The race is on to beat zoonotic diseases as climate change spreads them all over the world.