By Ezra Klein Bernie Sanders didn’t win the 2020 election. But he may have won its aftermath. If you look back at Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’s careers, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan, looks a lot like the proposals Sanders has fought for forever, without much of the compromise or concerns […]

To the Editor: Re “Drowning in Student Loan Debt” (Op-Ed, March 19): It’s easy to sympathize with Molly Webster’s carrying tens of thousands of dollars in student debt at age 38. But she made the decisions to attend an expensive school, defer debt, attend graduate school full-time and study science journalism, a skill that garnered […]

The vaccine inequity that threatens us all Of the nearly 400 million vaccines delivered so far, about 90 percent have gone to residents of wealthy and middle-income countries, while the rest of the world may have to wait years, potentially prolonging the pandemic. By partnering with drug companies, Western leaders bought their way to the […]

How can I convince someone that I deserve to exist as much as anyone else? For decades, this has been my work. I have had to lobby for rights so many others take for granted, not just in the offices of my state legislators, but also in the professional settings where I conduct sensitivity training […]

(Reuters) – KnowBe4 Inc, a cybersecurity awareness training provider backed by Goldman Sachs and KKR & Co Inc, is looking to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering in the United States, according to a regulatory filing. The company did not reveal the number of shares it would offer or the pricing, […]

The global leaders in Covid-19 vaccination rates are Israel and the United Arab Emirates. After them come a handful of countries that have each given between 30 and 45 shots for every 100 residents, including the United States, Britain, Bahrain, Chile and Serbia. But these handful of countries have followed two different strategies. The U.S. […]

The grim reality of modern American life is that each new mass killing leads to a fevered study of motives and meaning. Was the latest shooter motivated by racism, misogyny, religion, revenge or some combination thereof? Those are not questions that members of a healthy society should routinely be forced to ask or answer. After […]

(Reuters) – A blank-check firm that counts athletes Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, and Robert Lewandowski among its advisers is looking to raise $250 million through a U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing on Thursday showed. Disruptive Acquisition Corporation I said it planned to sell 25 million units, composed of shares and warrants, priced at […]

Americans on the right half of the political spectrum have tended to underplay the risk of Covid-19. They have been less willing to wear masks or avoid indoor gatherings and have been more hesitant to get vaccinated. These attitudes are part of a larger pattern in which American conservatives are often skeptical of public-health warnings […]

In 1943, Niuta Teitelbaum strolled into a Gestapo apartment on Chmielna Street in central Warsaw and faced three Nazis. A 24-year-old Jewish woman who had studied history at Warsaw University, Niuta was likely now dressed in her characteristic guise as a Polish farm girl with a kerchief tied around her braided blond hair. She blushed, […]