Politics

Lobbyists argue that debt collection must not be suspended during the pandemic, citing an “ethnically diverse” and women-majority workforce.

Amid record high unemployment, most congressional Democrats have shown no interest in addressing many people’s inability to make major bill payments.

When all of this is behind us, to the extent that it ever can be, let’s not forget what we’ve learned: Congress knows how to spend money when it wants to.

A review of recent government coronavirus contracts shows the response of federal agencies to the global pandemic is on a slow timeline.

The weaknesses in the federal government’s ability to produce vaccines fast enough to avert a crisis have been evident for more than a decade.

Americans for Prosperity, a pro-corporate group, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public health officials to the contrary.

The lawsuit condemns Texas’s “blatant effort to exploit a public health crisis to advance an extreme, anti-abortion agenda.”

Our status quo health insurance system simply can’t survive a pandemic. The choice is a bailout — or a one-page piece of legislation that expands Tricare to everybody.

On Monday, the FDA awarded Gilead seven years of exclusive marketing rights to a promising coronavirus treatment through the Orphan Drug Act.

Hasan and Scahill spoke live on March 25, 2020.