Politics

If Donald Trump had been as successful at responding to the pandemic as Angela Merkel, 39,000 Americans who died of Covid-19 would still be alive today.

Those who survived the bloody undoing of Yugoslavia saw the havoc nationalism can wreak. It is hard not to worry about its symptoms now.

Rick Berman, a lobbyist and consultant, warned business leaders in a memo that the coronavirus crisis is driving support for “workforce rebellion.”

Advocates and legislators say federal government funds could be used to fund a bill that would allow homeless New Yorkers to live in vacant hotel rooms.

The CovKid project estimates that the total number of children infected with the coronavirus in the U.S. is now at least 478,000.

Consumer advocates and banks forged an unusual alliance to help disseminate information about financial relief. But now other interests are coming to the fore.

Coronavirus testing was made available early and often for lawmakers, who enjoy concierge medical services. The CARES Act gave that clinic a $400,000 boost.

The face of Trumpism after Trump, Hawley is a fraud — a right-winger pretending to be a populist.

The right will fight to the death — our death — against any genuine bailout for regular people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here‘s why.

“Bailout money always goes to the big farmers. ... We basically subsidize capital-intensive, large-scale industrial farming.”