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 for Covid ... example of pandemic mismanagement. Occasionally, we would ... Read More

Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics

Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid ... politics and more like the response to a war. Read More

Biden opens the door to revisiting the early days of the pandemic

“When we asked about 13 issues back in November to try to figure out what voters wanted to hear candidates talk about, we had Covid ... holed the pandemic,” said Gunner Ramer, political ... Read More

When Food, War and Politics Collide

It is usually an afterthought in politics ... drawn so much attention in a war that has already been so deadly. The interview was edited and condensed. JB: We know José Andrés as a celebrity ... Read More

The NPR Politics Podcast

Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington ... Political wonks - get wonkier with The NPR Politics Podcast+. Your subscription ... Read More

The looming battle over the Democratic platform: From the Politics Desk

an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, Mike Memoli and ... Read More

Can We Agree on Which Covid Lessons to Learn?

In “Covid Lessons Learned, Four Years Later” (op-ed, March 19), Scott Atlas and Steve Hanke itemize policy errors made during the worst of the Covid epidemic. They identify prolonged school ... Read More

New York state won’t regain all jobs lost from COVID pandemic until at least 2026, analysis shows

The Empire State is not expected to recover all the jobs lost from the COVID ... pandemic — but government jobs have shrunk. “Private sector jobs in New York City are at an all time high today. Read More

Where abortion rights could be on the ballot this fall: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team ... 12% Response to the Covid pandemic: 12% The bottom line: 35% ... Read More

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Even as the country has become more racially and ethnically diverse and religious attendance has declined, the relative size of the two big political-party coalitions has stayed almost identical. Read More