A Texas judge’s ruling that employers don’t have to cover HIV-prevention medication is further proof that the right sees public health policy merely as a tool to punish political enemies.

Steven Thrasher’s new book examines how society makes people vulnerable to viruses and blames them for it.

In a distinguished government career spanning more than half a century, he expertly steered America through two devastating pandemics. But given how Republicans have maliciously attacked him, why would anyone want to follow in his footsteps?

There’s a lot left to do, but the administration’s four big bills—Covid relief, infrastructure, CHIPs, and the Inflation Reduction Act—are a stirring refutation of trickle-down economics.

The administration expects to stop buying vaccines and treatment by year’s end, handing over these responsibilities to for-profit companies that are salivating at the opportunity.

Conservative state legislatures are using pandemic-era surpluses to give tax cuts for the wealthy while maintaining unfair flat taxes that punish the poor.

As the World Health Organization declares an international emergency, it’s clear America has dropped the ball.

On Fox News and in other corners of the right, the president’s illness was an excuse to spike the football—and spread misinformation about the vaccine.

The president was one of roughly 125,000 Americans diagnosed with the virus on Thursday. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to block the funding to fight the pandemic.

As the BA.5 variant takes over, Covid death numbers have become an object lesson in why raw data is often misleading.

The president has had a lot thrown at him. The Middle East, oddly, has been comparatively quiet. That may be about to change.

A quick, targeted vaccination campaign could stop this disease in its tracks.

Monkeypox and Covid aren’t a zero-sum game. They’re more connected than they first appear. Acknowledging that can help us fight both.

Plenty has been out of his control. But the president has bungled a few things along the way.

We used to think a silver lining to economic downturns was that inequality halted. But new research suggests recessions speed inequality up.

Disaster preparedness doesn’t need to be right-wing and individualistic. It does, however, need to be paired with policy.

New variants can infect people who had Covid-19 as recently as a few months ago.

“Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health. I was just drowning.”

Climate change is driving animals into new habitats, increasing the encounters that give rise to viruses like Covid-19.

The grim first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.