Politics
The Future of the American Idea
The Future of the American Idea
Beth Van Duyne was at the center of a controversy over Sharia law. Now she represents a congressional district Biden won.
For people like me, who have social anxiety, videoconferencing can be easier than in-person interactions.
Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.
In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion.
For the administration, strengthening the middle class is essential to national security.
The former first lady fought the most conservative elements of the Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic. It wasn’t enough.
People who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have higher health-care costs. The rest of us will foot the bill.
Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.
Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.
His proposals are radical. He’s obsessed with robots. He’s never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York.
Summer programs will help. But they won’t be enough.
A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.
Representative Eric Swalwell built a public profile criticizing the ex-president. He’s still figuring out what’s next.
People are stretching the truth to get the vaccine faster, but experts say I shouldn’t. Here’s why.
The party is trying to ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, but aggressively redrawing districts in blue states like New York might be the only way to preserve its House majority.
Every day, in small towns and cities across the country, thousands of people are booked into local jails, many for minor crimes. Some never come home.
The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD.
Yes, he wants to avoid making a gaffe, but he also doesn’t want to be an in-your-face president.
The fight between politicians, parents, and teachers over school reopenings could soon affect elections.