Millions are unemployed, public budgets are falling apart, the economy is struggling, and the COVID-19 epidemic is raging anew — and most of the $2.7 trillion floor Cong...
President Trump campaigned in 2016 against an imaginary nation of 1970s-era “inner cities” beset by fear and violent crime. The narrative worked for him then, so he’s do...
The last few days have been filled with well-deserved tributes to John Lewis, the last of the great Southern Black leaders who played major roles in leading the civil ri...
There are many reasons why the White House’s announcement Tuesday that it would exclude unauthorized immigrants counted in the 2020 census from population data used to d...
The Confederacy has been the excuse for some of today’s rioting, property destruction and grossly uninformed statements. Among the latter is the testimony before the Hou...
As coronavirus infection rates continue to spike around the country, states and cities are diverging in their response on how to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Presiden...
Moscow researchers say one of the country’s potential coronavirus vaccines has been proven safe in small-scale human trials, and is ready for wider tests. It should be a...
And now for some good news from Congress and the president.
No joke.
In a rare, welcome display of bipartisanship, Congress is poised to approve the most important conse...
Across the country, private schools are in existential trouble thanks to COVID-19. Long financially struggling as they have had to compete against free public schools, s...
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Hopes for a summertime reprieve from COVID-19 have been dashed as cases surged i...
