As states start lifting stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus outbreak, workers will play a key role in determining if the economy bounces back.
The Supreme Court has made clear repeatedly that governments can regulate businesses to protect the public interest.
Turns out a range of charlatans out there are peddling industrial bleach as a cure-all.
When competitions resume post-coronavirus quarantine, fans will celebrate the simple fact they can sit next to strangers and cheer as one.
Angelenos spend an average of 103 hours a year stuck in traffic. Is it possible to keep our roads the way they are now?
College students, trade in lousy online classes for a pandemic-safe mobilization to turn out 18-to-29-year-old climate voters in November.
Being born black in America means facing the likelihood of poorer health outcomes over a lifetime.
Housing patterns and transit modes could turn out to be decisive factors in why some cities were better able to fend off spread of the coronavirus.
For years, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has been asking people to pay to use the image of the Hollywood sign — which it doesn't own or control.
Stuck in coronavirus lockdown, all I wanted to do was sleep in and eat toast. And then I rediscovered my bike.
When I came home from college because of the coronavirus outbreak, my eighth-grade English teacher, my mentor, postponed a meeting with me. She had a fever and a cough.
Once antibody tests for the coronavirus are broadly available, will we allow society to be divided into two groups — the immune and non-immune?
Proposing rational modifications to quarantine measures is not like denying science or saying Jesus is your vaccine.
In this pandemic, we need an emergency increase in the number of green cards issued to immigrants with critically required skills.
Here's an idea: Put your phone away during your daily walks and talk to strangers, at a safe distance. And when this is all over, keep doing it.
The Justice Department weighed in on a social distancing case in Mississippi to strike a blow for Trump's side in the coronavirus culture wars.
President Trump accused Voice of America of buying into Chinese propaganda in covering coronavirus. That's absurd.
A model predicts COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. will drop to zero by June. Another suggests without a vaccine, the coronavirus will be with us for years.
I've learned that a moment always comes along to remind you that your race defines you above all else.
Dancing at home during the shutdown is the coronavirus pandemic's bathtub gin.
Research has been paused on everything but COVID-19, which could have serious consequences on cures for other diseases for generations to come.
Like everything else, street protest during a pandemic has to take other forms.
Sorry, liberators. Court rulings have firmly established that public health closures — like our current coronavirus shutdowns — are constitutional.
Why are Trump and his advisors praising people for protesting against policies the administration has endorsed?
The hospital-at-home model could help coronavirus patients who need sustained medical supervision but don't need to be admitted into a hospital.
Pearl's beheading opened the door to more violence against journalists. Those who abducted him should remain in prison.
California could restart its economy by creating a "virus alert" system that would regulate COVID risk by automatically reinstating shelter-in-place orders when infection or death rates get too high.
We already know far more about this virus than scientists ever knew during the Spanish flu epidemic
Chaos in the face of a crisis like COVID-19 is just the American way.
The days run together during the coronavirus quarantine, but a jigsaw puzzle and a brief family moment help define them.
With American flags and Trump banners waving, angry citizens are taking to the streets to protest stay-at-home edicts.
I've been doing my part to keep an eye on my older neighbors, which helps calm my own feelings of fear and helplessness.
Collecting and analyzing real-time data on the number of cases and deaths during a disease outbreak is crucial. Here's why we've failed.
Saving Wall Street in the 2008 crash didn't save Main Street. We can't let that happen again.
Comparing the coronavirus crisis and the surprise attack in Hawaii in 1941 only points up the gulf between the divisive Donald Trump and the unifying Franklin D. Roosevelt.
22 million Americans have filed jobless claims in recent weeks. Millions of them have also lost their employer-based health insurance at the worst possible time.
The left blames the right, the right blames China and the World Health Organization. Governors blame the president, and he blames them right back.
Other presidents have expanded their executive power during national crises. Trump is trying, but he's so bad at the job, he won't succeed.
Two state pandemic coalitions represent a refusal to bow and scrape to Trump or to fight one another for federal resources.
In these frightening times, I am struck by the heroic and merciful acts I first encountered as a young child behind barbed wire.
Popular Science Editor Corinne Iozzio talks about how to make the tricky science of coronavirus understandable to an online audience.
Anthony Fauci, our national truth-teller, spoke plainly before he was forced to make a retraction by a president more comfortable with lies.
Trump cedes power to the states when it suits him, and claims it for the federal government when it suits.
Agricultural employers and state health authorities need to act immediately before COVID-19 becomes a major crisis among workers who provide our food supply.
Americans required to "shelter in place" should also be entitled to "shelter in job."
Since FDR, presidents have taken on the role of comforter-in-chief in moments of national crisis.
Autocratic regimes in Russia, Turkey and Venezuela are already maneuvering to exploit the coronavirus crisis to further entrench their rule.
I'm running low on toilet paper, thanks to hoarding in response to the coronavirus outbreak. I'm not worried, because I'm done with TP for good.
A garlic bulb, found almost desiccated during a vacuuming, is pushing greenery toward the sky. The cilantro, though, has been wholly devoured by snails.
Asking for help can be scary and uncomfortable. If you can assist, don't wait for a request — offer help now.