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.

Thanks to one judge, members of the family that made billions from OxyContin could escape justice for their role in the opioid epidemic. Mike Quinn may be the best hope of holding them to account.

Celebrities, athletes, and pundits are dodging questions about their vaccination status by saying health decisions are personal. This is a cowardly cop-out that harms public health.

The heroes of Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” are a band of intrepid policy entrepreneurs.

The science says it’s safe to start letting go of some of the strictures we’ve followed during the dark days of the pandemic.

The CDC recommends we double up on masks or opt for higher-quality filtration. That’s great guidance. Now help us pay for it.

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

Joe Biden has a generational opportunity to restore solidarity in the citizenry—through words alone.

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.

“It’s almost as if we’re guinea pigs in some way.”

New York City schools are supposed to be back in session in September. Are they ready?

Teachers routinely go above and beyond the call of duty, but hastily reopening schools during a pandemic puts students, families, and all of us at risk.

In the absence of a coherent government response to the pandemic, the private sector has stepped into the void with new disinfecting tools, surveillance apps, and cardboard.

The “war on coronavirus” is lost. It's time for new pandemic metaphors—and a radically new culture of care.

Masks are important. But there are a lot of indoor risks that recent mask mandates don’t address.

He may be wildly more popular than Trump, but he can’t rescue America from the ignorance and incompetence of the Trump White House.

The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.

Jared Kushner—climber, sycophant, snob—is the perfect avatar of elite incompetence for our times.

Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma

The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.