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Why hasn’t pandemic aid fraud become a bigger scandal?

Getty Images/iStockphoto The scope of the fraud is staggering, but there are reasons the political impact has been muted. The United States government’s historic spending on pandemic aid in 2020 and 2021 was accompanied ...

The best, worst, and just plain dumb of American politics in 2022

Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally in Loganville, Georgia, on December 4. Walker lost to incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s Senate runoff election on December 6. | Alex Wong/Getty Images From din...

Winter storms put the US power grid to the test. It failed.

People walk past workers attempting to repair a water line in Buffalo, New York, on December 26, 2022. | Joed Viera/AFP via Getty Images America’s aging energy infrastructure and reliance on fossil fuels pushed local pow...

Kari Lake’s long-shot lawsuit challenging her midterms loss, explained

Kari Lake speaks at the Arizona Republican Party Election Night rally on November 8. | Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Republican candidate for Arizona governor has suffered another defeat — this time in court....

The money party is over

You’re sober. Go home. | Getty Images/Chris Clinton No one was celebrating in 2022’s economy. If you got into investing in mid-2020 or in 2021 — which many people did — you probably had a nice time. Stocks soared after ...

9 breakthroughs this year that gave us hope for the future

From climate to housing, these policy and science wins suggest that 2022 was full of progress. 2022 wasn’t as defined by the coronavirus pandemic as 2020 or 2021, but it was still marred by its fallout. War, a tightening economy...

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