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Before the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began Tuesday, it may have been tempting to think of it as a sequel to a show that had been canceled, a sequel no ...

Massive job losses, complications of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, entrenched racial disparities and domestic terrorism. Such complex problems require the combined effor...

About 10 years ago, a woman called me from the San Fernando Valley with a request I could not accommodate. She had been arrested many years earlier for prostitution, whe...

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...