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Dead bodies left at home and in streets. Quarantined people facing hunger. Political turmoil. Ecuador's coronavirus…
#TyphoidMary is shorthand today for those who defy social distancing orders. The real Typhoid Mary is perhaps the most prominent…
Research and investigative journalism call into question the authenticity of – and actual public support for – recent…
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To stem the spread of COVID-19, Turkey is releasing 90,000 prison inmates. Not on the list for release: tens of thousands…
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In addition to testing and special facilities for COVID-19 patients, the country's government-run tracking system allows…
Incarcerated Americans have been tasked with washing hospital laundry, manufacturing protective equipment, disinfecting…
A trove of essays long forgotten in the archives of the Hoover Institution give insight into what attracted everyday women…
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance…
Doctors face difficult choices about rationing medical care. A scholar who studies discrimination argues that those with…
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, President Trump has made inconsistent statements about who is responsible for key aspects…
In many states, any voter can ask for an absentee ballot and mail it in – but in others, there are stricter rules about…
Even as Americans are all told to remain at home, millions are now unemployed and must scramble to figure out how to pay…
Half of incarcerated individuals have either a chronic medical or a mental health condition. But social distancing and rigorous…
A historian of ancient Greece looks past a plague and explains how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500…
In the UK, nobody collects patients' insurance information or credit card details. There's simply no charge for…
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources…
In the 1790s, penal reformers rebuilt America's squalid jails as airy, hygienic places meant to keep residents – and…