The Supreme Court on Friday will consider two Biden administration rules to protect workers from the virus. Will the conservative justices buy a disingenuous reading of the word “necessary”?

A $26 billion deal is now in local governments’ hands. It could go to harm reduction or toward police and politicians’ pet concerns.

The lib-trolling Trump sycophant is at the top of most Democrats’ 2022 lists. He’s certainly beatable. But that’s what everyone thought in 2016, too.

Working as a police informant can be deadly—and people with a history of drug use are at extra risk of relapse or overdose.

In an interview, the chairman makes clear that the select committee means business—but acknowledges there are limits on how much power the body has.

The town’s lefties might not be notching a lot of wins, but they’re having a lot more fun.

A burgeoning new field of spiritual counseling promises to cleanse the faithful of far-right religious ideas. But is this just swapping one kind of snake oil with another?

Cerebral palsy was long considered a children’s condition. People aging with it face a dearth of research and health insurance that can’t comprehend their disability.

How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment

I worried for my daughter and son-in-law, hiding elsewhere in the Capitol. And I drew strength from the memory of my lost son.

Remote-access abortion has been framed as the wave of the future. But plenty of states will still find ways to criminalize self-managed abortion.

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Rather than getting higher pay or more staff, medical workers are being forced to endure looser guidelines that put everyone at greater risk.

The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?

The endless pandemic is being framed as an economic liability more than a matter of public health.

The most important politician to ever hail from Nevada, the late senator never forgot his hardscrabble beginnings and the promises he made to the American people.

If a lot of things break their way, the Democrats could defy history in the midterm elections. But man, that would need to be a whole lot of things.

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.