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Transportation infrastructure matters. It matters to our economy, our communities, our health and our safety. Our nation’s surface...
Congress is now being held hostage by the domestic extremism that led to the sacking of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6: The House of Representatives...
My high school teammates waved and headed to waiting cars after tennis practice. I craned my neck, looking for my mom’s metallic-blue Ford. In...
As activists across the nation call for meaningful police reform and elected officials create task forces to “reimagine public safety,” law...
Tucked into President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan are two provisions that, if made permanent, could bring more adults and...
The House just passed the Equality Act for the second time in two years. But this time, it’s different. With a Democratic majority in the Senate,...
One of my patients, age 45, doesn’t remember having had COVID but he has the antibodies to prove it, and the amounts are quite high. He is happy...
I'm USA TODAY editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, and this is The Backstory, insights into our biggest stories of the week. If you'd like to get The...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation, delay or rescheduling of almost 20 million medical appointments for veterans. Part of that is...
The Facebook Oversight Board’s verdict on whether to reinstate Donald Trump’s account is expected soon. Everyone is weighing in, from Bill...
I read a gripping story in the New York Times the other day that contained the following passage: “The story highlights the tensions between a...
La pandemia de COVID-19 es el desafío más grande y complejo nuestro sistema educativo ha enfrentado. Ha sido extraordinario ver cómo las escuelas,...
“China virus.” Those words were once again uttered by the twice-impeached, former president of the United States last weekend in Orlando and, as...
It took just over a year for COVID-19 to kill half a million Americans. By now, it should be a cautionary tale — health professionals laid out...
When I first saw the tape of Rodney King being beaten in the middle of the street on March 3, 1991, I was not horrified or surprised. I was...
Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson knows what slavery smelled like. He was 14 years old and on a trip with friends to Cape Coast Castle, located along the shore...
In 2006, longtime congressional staffer Scott Lilly and I wrote an article about unethical behavior by then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert. No, not...
Telework was already the fastest growing type of “commuting” before the arrival of COVID-19, and it became the only commuting method for nearly...
As someone whose immune system confounds me, I thought I’d wait longer to take the COVID-19 vaccine. For years, I avoided flu shots due to my...
Randi Weingarten, head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union, spoke to “Meet the Press’” Chuck Todd last week about getting teachers back...
Shortly after midnight last Friday, gunmen burst into the dormitory of a girls boarding school in Northwest Nigeria and rekindled a nightmare that,...
There is no place for sexual harassment or abuse of power in any American workplace — be it in business or politics. This is a basic and simple...
It’s been said that you should never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Applying this maxim to the Conservative Political...
In 2018, Congresswoman Deb Haaland, D-N.M., and I became the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress. Mere months later we stood...
“Why are my allergies lasting longer than they used to?” The first time a patient asked this, I researched potential reasons. The second time, I...
I knew something was off when I had to ask myself, “Why can’t I register for class without disclosing my passport details and medical history to...
The global consulting firm McKinsey agreed last month to pay $573 million to 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories to...
A new bill in the Arizona state legislature would require voters using mail-in ballots to have them notarized. “The early voter shall make and...
The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest and most complex challenge our education system has experienced. It has been extraordinary to see schools,...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court provided the most recent signal that it’s rethinking the doctrine of qualified immunity — a rule the Court...
There is no “Civil War” brewing within the Republican Party. Sure, there are a few, and I mean a few, folks who happen to still be in the...
Once again, we have a Democratic president trying to urgently solve a crisis in America. Once again, Americans are demanding action on racial...