On Meet the Press today, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten came out-- finally-- in favor of a vaccine mandate....

by Noah I don't know where to begin with Florida. I used to enjoy going there but that was when the water in Clearwater was actually...

Yesterday, the policies of two right-wing governors up for reelection next year, Texas' Greg Abbott and Florida's Ron DeathSantis,...

by Noah The big plagues of medieval times were transmitted from town to town by infected fleas on rats. Now, with COVID-19 and its...

New polling from Quinnipiac released this morning, shows Biden's favorability numbers slipping almost into Trumpian territory-- 46%...

On Friday, Florida reported 17,093 new cases of COVID, highest-- as everyday for the last couple of months-- of any state in the U.S....

With barely half the House Republicans having been vaccinated, the House physician told Pelosi to reinstate a mask mandate for anyone on...

Reporting for the Wall Street Journal this norming, Arian Campo-Flores wrote that "Florida is recording more Covid-19 cases than any...

Iowa campaigning has begun... just in case Señor Trumpanzee-- for whatever reason-- doesn't run in 2024. Alex Isenstadt wrote this...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has two elections in mind-- a reelection bid in 2022, probably against a big name, well-financed Democrat,...

On Friday, India reported 401,326 new cases of COVID and 4,194 new deaths. Saturday it was another 409,300 cases and 4,133 new deaths....

Yesterday, Jane Mayer wrote about her experience going through boxes of long-forgotten papers of the most vicious, racist GOP operative...

Ever since Trump was kicked out of office and a new science-based perspective on handling the pandemic was put in place, U.S. daily case...

On Saturday, Russia reported 8,704 new cases of COVID-19, bringing their total to 4,632,688. According to those statistics, Russia has...

When Trump endorsed Marco Rubio for reelection today, it signaled definitively that Ivanka isn't running. Rubio, no doubt, breathed a...

Now that I'm getting close to being fully vaccinated, one of my friends asked me if I'll be eating in restaurants. I doubt it-- at least...

At any time in the last year you could have asked any statistics nerd following the pandemic numbers and they would have nearly all...

Colorado's dumbest member of Congress, high school drop out and QAnon devotee Lauren Boebert tweeted this morning that "Vaccine Passports...

A friend of mine on the East Coast of Florida wanted to rent a car for his daughter. Last month cars were going for $12 a day. Today...

I have to admit I was an early and strong reactor to the pandemic. As someone who's been a frequent flyer for 5 decades, I always wear...