Pandemic
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US
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.
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Newyork
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 doubled over the course of the pandemic, leaving perhaps more than six million more students “chronically absent” than had been in the ...
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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 public records laws.
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Newyork
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 in a world with less than a quarter of today’s population. Dozens of mammals also became infected. Now we are seeing another onslaught of ...
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Newyork
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: probably about 100,000 deaths annually, at least for the next few years. The number was just a ballpark estimate, drawn from ...
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US
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 time, American life became almost unrecognizable. A deadly virus and a public health lockdown remade daily routines with startling speed, leaving ...
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Newyork
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.
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Newyork
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, it was hard to read or talk about the plight of American cities without encountering the chilling phrase “doom loop.” At first, the ...
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Newyork
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 self-lacerating story has formed the heart of an indictment of American school policies during the pandemic ...
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News
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.