As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the country, threatening lives and livelihoods alike, Congress has suddenly found its ability to legislate again. The Senate has cancelled their recess, and many lawmakers have been remarkably focused on fighting the disease and protecting Americans. Despite some delays and the usual partisan tug-of-war, lawmakers have quickly passed two important, […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the Senate will not leave Washington before approving an aid package to ease financial problems during the coronavirus pandemic through direct payments to individual Americans. Other provisions of the package, which has a total cost estimated at up to $1 trillion, would provide loans to airlines and […]
The coronavirus has changed almost every facet of American life. It has disrupted work routines, sent children home from school, and stress-tested the global supply chain. Medical researchers have warned for weeks that the new coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, is particularly dangerous to seniors and those with underlying health conditions. But in West […]
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has gone into a nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus. As of Tuesday, the country is completely closed to foreigners. All international air traffic has stopped and Ukraine’s land borders are closed, too. Ukrainian citizens stuck abroad have been instructed to go to their nearest consulate so they can get […]
In response to coronavirus, people are staying home, canceling flights, postponing vacations, and not eating out. All the businesses that were counting on those customers over the next several months will struggle to pay their lenders, keep paying their employees, and eventually to stay open at all. One small change in the tax code could […]
“Hunger doesn’t take a break at times like this.” And neither does Second Harvest Heartland. For food bank workers like Allison O’Toole, coronavirus is only part of the country’s crisis. The other? Feeding struggling families and older people who don’t want to leave their homes. But as the need intensifies, so are a lot of churches’ […]
Spain is one of the European countries struggling to stop the spread of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. Right now, Madrid is on lockdown: Residents can’t leave their homes unless it’s for something essential, such as getting medicine or food. You can’t take walks for no reason. Only one person per household is allowed to […]
With schools, businesses, and many government offices closing in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, state and federal courts are starting to follow suit. Courts across the country are grappling with how to respond to the outbreak while balancing the health and safety of court personnel and litigants against the need to […]
Too many lawmakers today cannot fathom a world where “keeping Americans safe from violence” means anything other than imposing stringent gun control measures. That makes it all the more important to highlight legislation that thinks outside the box of gun control and that gets public safety right without infringing on the rights of law-abiding Americans. […]
“I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to slavery,” Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times told an audience at Harvard in December. Now the Times admits: Her obsession bested her reason. On March 11, the Times issued […]
