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The Supreme Court case that could gut America’s gun laws, explained

More than a century of gun laws are potentially on the chopping block.

By Ian Millhiser

Democrats may let the best weapon against child poverty fade away

The child tax credit accomplished in one month what other policies took a decade to achieve. It could expire soon.

By Li Zhou

Biden’s plan to make your internet cheaper and better is one step closer

By Sara Morrison October 26

Immigrants could fix the US labor shortage

By Nicole Narea October 26

A contrarian take on the disinformation panic

By Sean Illing October 26

House isn’t selling? Blame the ghosts.

Realtor? Check. Appraiser? Check. Ghostbuster? Check.

By Jerusalem Demsas October 26

What will the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races mean for Biden?

By Andrew Prokop October 25

Pfizer’s clinical data puts the US one step closer to a Covid-19 vaccine for younger kids

By Ellen Ioanes October 23

Who should get a Covid-19 booster shot right now?

By Dylan Scott October 23

The Supreme Court’s very unusual new abortion orders, explained

By Ian Millhiser October 22

What Democrats are still fighting over in the budget bill

By Li Zhou October 22

The future of vaccine mandates will likely come down to Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

By Ian Millhiser October 22

MLMs might not be able to get away with their shady promises much longer

By Emily Stewart October 22

The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow

By Umair Irfan October 22

Democrats’ winnowing health care ambitions

By Dylan Scott October 21

Democrats are setting up social policies for painful cliffs

By Li Zhou October 20

The Freedom to Vote Act is almost certainly doomed

By Fabiola Cineas October 20

The Supreme Court floats a startling expansion to police immunity from the law

By Ian Millhiser October 20

Texas’s anti-abortion law is back at SCOTUS. Here’s what’s different this time around.

By Ian Millhiser October 19

How screwed are Democrats in the Senate?

By Andrew Prokop October 18

What to know about the latest fight over Trump’s executive privilege claims

By Ellen Ioanes October 17

Joe Manchin won’t support a key climate program. Alternatives won’t be enough.

By Ellen Ioanes October 16

Americans are ready to tax the rich

By Tim Ryan Williams October 16

The myth of the climate moderate

By Rebecca Leber October 16

The case against means testing

By Li Zhou October 15

The $5 trillion insurance industry faces a reckoning. Blame climate change.

By Umair Irfan October 15

Can the US cut drug prices without sacrificing new cures?

By Dylan Scott October 13

Biden’s incoherent immigration policy

By Nicole Narea October 13

Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush

By Rebecca Heilweil October 13

A better way to legalize marijuana

By German Lopez October 11

Texas’s anti-abortion law was halted. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t.

By Ellen Ioanes October 9

Is Biden’s legislative agenda popular? Yes, but …

By Andrew Prokop October 8

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

By Dylan Scott October 8

The debt ceiling fight is far from over

By Li Zhou October 7

The trillion-dollar coin scheme, explained by the guy who invented it

By Dylan Matthews October 7

The US is closer than ever before to making major progress on the climate crisis

By Rebecca Leber October 7

The Supreme Court takes a lie detector test

By Ian Millhiser October 7

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

By German Lopez October 7

Why lawmakers are fighting over the debt ceiling — again

By Li Zhou October 6

The Supreme Court confronts the CIA’s worst-kept secret

By Ian Millhiser October 6

Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech

By Shirin Ghaffary October 5

Mail delays and price hikes are coming to USPS. Here’s why.

By Ellen Ioanes October 3

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