German Lopez

America’s pandemic playbook assumed the US could take collective action. The country proved that wrong.

The Endless Frontier Act was meant to show the US can still compete with China. It did the opposite.

This is the challenge the US has to overcome to get back to post-pandemic normal.

The vaccines are holding Covid-19 down in the US for now, but it could come back this fall.

Politicians tend to focus on universal background checks. License requirements have more evidence behind them.

America has made progress on Covid-19 vaccines. But that progress is unequal across the country.

The CDC’s new mask guidance promises freedom. Vaccine passports can make it reality.

Biden isn’t a persuasive figure among Republicans. But he needs Republicans on board to boost vaccination rates.

Why the agency now says vaccinated people can mostly shed their masks.

I asked health experts about their post-vaccination lives. Most no longer worry about their own risk of Covid-19.

This fact is crucial to getting the US’s vaccination campaign back on track.

Biden’s new goal acknowledges how close America is to potentially getting Covid-19 under control.

In his speech to Congress, Biden echoed FDR with a call to do big things and restore faith in America.

Covid-19 exposed big gaps in America’s “care infrastructure.” Biden wants to do something about it.

There’s no reason to let cities or states suffer when the US has the vaccines.

Germany was returning to normal last summer. Then Covid-19 surged.

Police are protected by a mix of policy and culture from the very beginning.

The guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin is a huge outlier.

As his own party moves ahead on the issue, the president remains opposed to legalization.

Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause may not matter in US’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout  Vox.com