Whenever a hurricane nears our shores, the government implements a system to track the disaster, including assigning a score on a scale of one to five to assess its seve...
Every country that is imposing varying degrees of lockdowns — such as the U.K. did on Monday — is trying to reduce the burden of the disease on its population, health ca...
President Donald Trump has turned a narrow electoral defeat into a bid for infamy.
His goal in the post-election interlude has been more and more explicitly to overturn ...
The raging debate about whether to reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic seems destined to come to an end in the next few months.
Not because they finally figur...
The year 2020 has been called many things, but the name that will stick is probably “The Plague Year.” Most of us are happy just to call it “History.”
Still, a few good ...
From October through Thanksgiving, rural Americans died from COVID-19 at almost twice the rate of their urban peers. Although that grim divide has since narrowed somewha...
As America prepares to inaugurate Scranton Joe Biden as our 46th president, we interrupt Washington’s backslapping Democratic elites to inject a dose of realpolitik into...
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...
I was 22 years old when I decided to take a road trip with three friends from Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven to Selma, Ala.
Today, as the nation leaves a terribl...
When Joe Biden becomes president on Jan. 20, he will face an unprecedented number of crises. An unabated global pandemic. An increasingly unequal and fragile economy on ...
