Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it.
November 13, 2020Are we down to this, hoping that football can lead the way to stressing the seriousness of the virus?
March 31, 2020By March 4, South Korea — a country of 51.8 million people — has performed more than 136,000 tests. The US, with a population of 329 million, has performed fewer than 1,000.This is Part II in a series.
March 27, 2020Trump’s magical thinking and contradictory messages about the coronavirus have created public confusion. The consequences are becoming catastrophic.
March 17, 2020Health & Human Services Sec. Azar’s Folly Is Potentially Deadly: Where are all the Respirators?
April 12, 2013In "Blankets," an excerpt from Sherman Alexie's new collection entitled Blasphemy, he recounts his attempts to comfort his ailing father as he recovered from surgery.
September 11, 2012In the last five years of their lives, many seniors spend all of their assets covering health care costs — and they're on Medicare.
