Fears about a spike in abuse were proved wrong. Now mothers with firsthand experience of the system want to transform its approach to family safety, which is rooted in racist surveillance and carceral intervention.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.

The GOP-driven dysfunction of the Badger State is a window into the party’s illiberal plans for the country.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

The network never should have let Chris Cuomo “interview” his brother last spring or advise him on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations.

Earlier this year, the press deemed the Florida governor a political “winner” of the pandemic. Now his state is a Covid epicenter.

The next six months of this pandemic may look dispiriting. But that doesn’t mean we’re doomed.

While it’s understandable that we’re steadily moving toward requiring people to get the jab, it’s too soon to give up on increased access and friendly persuasion.

Dithering Democrats have left vulnerable renters in the worst possible place: at the mercy of the Supreme Court.

How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.

Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

The reimplementation of Covid restrictions in the House chamber has outraged many Republicans—and they’re not shy about letting you know.

The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

Landlords claiming extreme hardship are blaming eviction moratoriums for their troubles. These are misdirections we have to reject while rebuilding from the pandemic.

From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.

The network’s dishonesty about the dangers of vaccines is putting its audience at risk.

For people with compromised immune systems, “long Covid,” and other disabilities, the pandemic doesn’t end with vaccination.

Vaccinate. Do it quickly.