Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

Prison officials touted a compassionate response to Covid, but the statistics tell another story.

Nobody stands to gain more from vaccine mandates. Their opposition demonstrates their subservience to partisan Republicans.

The White House worried about backlash from the anti-vaxxer minority. As Virginia’s gubernatorial election shows, it should have worried about the Covid-weary majority.

The new OSHA pandemic regulations that just dropped are a work of semantic art with a conservative Supreme Court in mind.

His falling poll numbers are due more to the delta variant than the Beltway mess. That means he’ll climb as things get better. Unless they get worse again.

Have we learned nothing about the needs of caregivers from the pandemic?

We know how to help young children cope with the trauma of Covid-19. The question is whether we’ll do it.

Hospital cost-cutting and systematic devaluation of nurses’ labor has been going on for decades.

We’ve heard repeatedly from the country’s vaccine resisters. But what about the people who follow the rules? They’re ignored and forgotten—and they are in pain.

Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?

Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are giving Democrats an opening to retake the Covid-19 narrative and exploit a winning issue.

First the Covid vaccine, now a malaria one: The race is on to beat zoonotic diseases as climate change spreads them all over the world.

Failing to mask fully, provide testing, consider community Covid rates, and support teachers has turned the fall term into a nightmare.

The public’s esteem of the high court is at an all-time low, and the media is not to blame.

And they’re hurting their own reelection chances in the process.

Until we have solid data on who needs them and how often, booster shots are going to be tough to distinguish from vaccine hoarding.

Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?

Why are so many people drawn to stories and videos of the unvaccinated dying of Covid-19—and, at the final moment, wishing for the vaccine?

His terrific speech Thursday constitutes his bet-the-presidency moment. Will enough Americans roll up their sleeves?