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.

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

Shams Charania and Adam Schefter showed why access journalism is a bankrupt and corrupt approach to newsgathering.

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.

Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.

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

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

Religious exemptions from getting inoculated are coming to a federal court near you.

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

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?

Because it’s only starting to emerge from its decades-long imprisonment by the GOP.

Their arguments against Biden’s vaccine mandate are selfish, amoral, and rooted in an ignorance of American history.

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

At long last, the White House is acknowledging that America can’t afford to respect personal choices in a pandemic.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

The cynical rise of a scam Covid-19 cure-all

The president must master a period fraught with fear, doubt, cynicism, and uncertainty to keep his ambitious plans alive.

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.