Author: David Leonhardt

An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.

When we treat Covid as a simple morality play, we can end up making bad predictions.

Americans strongly favor raising taxes on the rich. Why are Democrats struggling to do so?

Rapid tests will soon be more available in the U.S.

Nobody seems to know how it will be resolved.

House Democrats delayed a vote on a major infrastructure bill, a sign of divisions within the party.

Eight years later, we revisit the story of Dasani, a fierce and vulnerable child of New York.

Covid’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme.