Pandemic

World

Why U.S. Schools Are Facing Their Biggest Budget Crunch in Years

Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.

News

Why Children Are Missing More School Now

The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly…

News

Fauci Grilled by Lawmakers on Masks, Vaccine Mandates and Lab Leak Theory

Dr. Fauci testified before a House panel investigating Covid’s origins. The panel found emails suggesting that his aides were skirting…

News

As Bird Flu Looms, the Lessons of Past Pandemics Take on New Urgency

In 1918, an influenza virus jumped from birds to humans and killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people…

News

Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.

Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…

World

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

In March 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump competed for the White House for the first…

Magazine

They Fell in Love During the Pandemic. Then Things Changed.

Four years after lockdowns and social distancing were implemented worldwide, four readers share their stories about their pandemic relationship regrets.

News

American Cities Aren’t Doomed After All

For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder,…

News

American Students Outperformed the Rest of the World During the Pandemic

By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This…

Finance

Yellow Says It Will Repay Federal Debt. Legal Experts Are Skeptical.

The trucking company, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, owes more than $700 million to the Treasury Department.

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