What is Sheldon Whitehouse thinking?

Revelations about the role he played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is openly vowing to make money off vaccine lawsuits if confirmed as the next HHS secretary.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax nonprofit turns out to be just another scam.

Efforts to stop the spread of infectious disease have always suffered from a cycle of panic and neglect. Vaccine skepticism in the new administration brings even greater challenges.

The newspaper’s editorial board has fully caved to Donald Trump.

If we’re being honest, he deserves this ignominy every year. But after Trump dodged justice this year and nonetheless won the presidency, we cannot responsibly give this “award” to anyone else.

An interview with Anne Shoup, a senior adviser to a group trying to stop RFK Jr.’s nomination, about Trump’s tacit admission that RFK’s anti-vax extremism is a political problem

As Donald Trump tries to soften RFK Jr.’s anti-vax extremism, a strategist involved in trying to block RFK’s nomination explains why Trump could prove vulnerable on this front—if Dems make the case.

How is it possible that Americans are good with this corrupt cavalcade of unqualified extremists Trump is nominating?

Corporate tax cuts! Threatening Republicans! Arresting Democrats! Rethinking the polio vaccine?! People are about to find out what they voted for.

The would-be Trump appointee is set to undermine public health—and take public education down with it.

Over the course of the decade, the party has hoped that voters would simply reject him as immoral, uncouth, and unfit for office. They need a stronger argument—and his Cabinet picks give them one.

With the president-elect choosing his rogues’ gallery of future appointees, the political press is really wearing out its go-to synonym for crazy.

Plummeting trust in vaccines could be lethal on its own. But there are also ways Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services could reduce vaccine availability, as well.

As Trump elevates the worst possible picks to positions of great influence, the author of a new piece laying out some dark second-term scenarios explains why we may be facing a very troubling future.

The Biden administration cut pandemic-era health benefits, and the Harris campaign failed to present any comprehensive health care reform policies. This was not an inspiring message for voters.

RFK Jr.’s meteoric rise says a lot about Trumpism’s overlap with the online manosphere. But the manosphere’s preoccupation with things like microplastics suggests Democrats may have an opening.

Virus monitoring, the budgets to investigate E. coli outbreaks, and much, much more could be on the chopping block.

Kennedy, an anti-vaxxer with a chilling past, says Trump has promised to name him head of Health and Human Services. The Trump camp has denied this—unconvincingly.