• Politics & Policy

Medicare for America, Beto O’Rourke’s favorite health care plan, explained

Beto O’Rourke vs. Bernie Sanders sets up a real debate about Medicare-for-all.

Democrats want the FBI to investigate Cindy Yang, the massage parlor founder accused of selling access to Trump

Congressional Democrats want to open a counterintelligence investigation to find out if the Chinese government was working with Yang.

The US is experiencing a widespread worker shortage. Here’s why.

Retail and restaurant workers are more in demand than tech workers.

Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs

China stopped importing trash from other countries. Now, many cities in the US are facing a recycling crisis.

The New Zealand shooter wrote a manifesto. An extremism expert explains what it means.

"The trick is how do you cover this ... without simply redistributing a piece of propaganda."

• From Recode

Facebook wants to share more local news, but it’s having trouble finding it

One in three US Facebook users lives in a place where the company cannot find much local news.