One person, one vote: that’s the dream of American democracy and, sadly, the myth.
The most powerful American lawmaking body patently violates that principle.
The United...
Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limited doses to minimi...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
The Biden administration is examining ways to accelerate the process of adding abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s face to the $20 bill.
It’s important that these new notes “...
It’s been 13 months since China shut down a region of 18 million people because of the rapid human-to-human transfer of a new strain of coronavirus.
It’s been a year sin...
How and when to phase out COVID-19 relief programs is one of the most difficult policy problems that the Biden administration will have to solve.
Eventually, the virus w...
Andy Jassy, Amazon’s incoming CEO, has a conference room nicknamed the Chop. As Business Insider puts it in a profile of Jassy, “The Chop is where ideas, and sometimes e...
Voting is a right of citizenship, and the opportunity to exercise it should be made easier, not more difficult.
Congress could go a long way to fixing the problems here....
September 11, 2001, was a wake-up call for a lot of Americans. On that day of tragedy, we realized how much we depend on and need our first responders.
We may have thou...
President Joe Biden has long been forthright in his desire to bring the U.S. back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Now he’s laying out a vision for doing so: If Ira...
