The announcement of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was greeted this week with celebration and skepticism.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of ...
Last spring, the COVID-19 pandemic caused perhaps the worst job losses since the Great Depression. The decrease in the labor force participation rate — from 63.3% to 61....
President Joe Biden's recently unveiled budget marks a new era in U.S. economic policymaking.
Decades of trickle-down tax cuts are out the window; instead, Biden is bett...
The name, For the People Act, has an elegant simplicity. The number, HR 1, does too.
Democrats call it a first-aid kit for a republic where big money, gerrymandering and...
The ever-growing democracy reform movement is built around the idea that the American democracy is in trouble because the system is broken.
Those with money have an outs...
In an important 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court pushed back against prosecutorial overreach in computer-related misconduct.
What’s most interesting about the case is the...
Jonathan Carlyle of Toledo, Ohio, had every intention of getting a COVID-19 shot — someday. The Amazon delivery driver was so busy that he kept putting it off.
Then he l...
Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 before it spread bey...
No country has escaped the setbacks caused by the pandemic, but its impact on low-income countries is particularly devastating.
The World Bank estimates that the pandemi...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
Claim
Airlines recently met to discuss the risks and liability of carryi...
