Analysis

Agonizing trade-offs have long characterized the emergency, none more so than the one between public health and economic well-being that was crushed by the lockdowns needed to stem successive tides of infection. But the speeding vaccine…

Today, that effort is evolving, as best exemplified by a tweet Monday in which a Republican senator suggested the president is something amounting to a Manchurian Candidate.“The president is not doing cable news interviews,” said Sen.…

When compared with almost 2,900 other counties in the United States, our analysis of the 250 counties where those charged or arrested live reveals that the counties that had the greatest decline in White population had an 18 percent…

The White House proposal released Friday now goes to Congress, which ultimately holds the purse strings. Democrats hold narrow majorities in the House and Senate and will likely rely on Republicans to get the budget through, especially…

"There is a different story here than people are imagining," says Lindsey Walter, deputy director of climate policy at Third Way, a centrist Democratic group that is among the sponsors of the Decarb America project. "In today's world,…

GOP office holders launched a broad assault on the package, arguing it was too expensive and was stuffed with overly partisan programs that had nothing to do with fixing roads and bridges. "The Biden administration is calling it an…

Keep an eye on this bipartisan bill. Key House lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation that would address repeated funding and resource shortfalls that occur during large upswings in the number of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico…

Conflicting reports had emerged in Nigeria over the video of a downed plane, after the country's air force disputed claims from Boko Haram that its militants shot down a jet.Boko Haram released a seven-minute video Friday, showing the…

While Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan, the infrastructure effort and a coming jobs bill ostensibly address targeted policy areas, they have a broader common purpose. They form the foundation of the President's effort to engineer…

The race between increasingly available inoculations and rising infections cresting into a spring surge is -- to borrow the title of the Trump administration's original vaccine development project -- now hitting warp speed.But even a…