The pandemic shut down child care centers across the country. It's no coincidence that it also sent unemployment rates soaring among women, especially those with young children. That's not only the conclusion of many mothers, but also of a recent study by the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Nursing home social worker Sang Nguyen lived in constant fear that he'd bring COVID-19 home to his parents and his 78-year-old grandmother. He knew from his job how deadly the coronavirus could be for older people with pre-existing health conditions. So the family began hunkering down last year at . . .

Republicans and their right-wing allies want to lock in their conservative majority on the Supreme Court.