Jeff Zients on funding gaps, misinformation, and the future of the virus.Zients, a former business consultant who served as both budget chief and National Economic Council director for Barack Obama and helped run the presidential transition for Joe... >>>

With the rate of inflation at a 40-year high, Americans are feeling the pain at grocery stores and gas pumps.Walter D. Greason, professor and chair of the Department of History at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, said Russia's war... >>>

The war could throw more than one-fifth of humanity into poverty, destitution and hunger on a scale not seen in decades. © Bram Janssen, AP Simien Arian holds her malnourished nine-month-old grandchild in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 8, >>>

The late comedian helped move stand-up beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd. Gottfried’s comedy helped make way for the rise of Solomon Georgio, Eugene Mirman, Kumail Nanjiani, Ali Wong, Patton Oswalt, Maria... >>>

Emmanuel Macron once held hands with Donald Trump. I just don’t see Joe Biden doing that. Macron is 44. Biden will be 80 in November. Macron, a former finance minister and the son of a physician and a professor of neurology, studied philosophy and... >>>

U.S. has no Black female governors. And no Black women voted on Jackson confirmation. Faith, political leader, organizer on where we go from here.She mentioned this historical context during her speech Friday after the confirmation: "I am the dream... >>>

For Putin, It's All About the Money—And I Learned That the Hard WayAs we watch the murderous carnage that Putin has unleashed against innocent Ukrainians, we are all trying to understand Putin’s motivations. Some say he’s reacting to NATO... >>>

In his latest effort to pretend he is doing something about skyrocketing crime rates, President Joe Biden rolled out his new rule on so-called ghost guns this week. In doing so, he peddled a number of anti-gun cliches and silly comments. For... >>>

No reasonable person wants anything other than for the United States to benefit from the diversity of its people. To call diversity a strength is more than a pleasant homily; it is a core civic value embraced by large majorities of our people. But... >>>

According to Musk, free speech costs about $3 billion.Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist” — opposed to any restrictions on what someone can say online — and he has indicated he thinks the social media platform is heading in the wrong... >>>

The Court is getting more partisan and much harder to change.But appearances can be deceiving. A more accurate picture of the Court’s future could actually be discerned from two other stories that flanked it. The first was Ginni Thomas’s ravings to... >>>

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I’m struggling this year to reconcile the lessons I’ve taken from the holiday: to help the world, but also to remember how often the world has turned on us. Maybe the seder needs to be a call not only for empathy but also for vigilance. And yet if I >>>

As the immigration court system strains under the weight of its biggest case backlog in history, the Biden administration is racing to fix it before it breaks entirely. But breaking the system might be the only way to save it. On the campaign trail, >>>

Every teenager deserves to discover the lifelong benefits that come with early work. The idea of the working teenager is as old as America itself, but now they are increasingly rare. Only 36% of those ages 16 to 19 participated in the labor force at >>>