Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better
M ethadone is “the best tool we have” to fight opioid addiction, says Ashish Thakrar, a doctor at the University of Pennsylva...
Did Donald Trump wilfully defy a court order?
Editor’s note (March 18th): This article has been updated. “I ALWAYS ABIDE by the courts,” claimed President Donald Trump las...
The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states
ON AN UNSEASONABLY balmy March afternoon in Westbrook, Maine—a suburb of Portland, the state’s largest city—parents gather ou...
America is facing a beef deficit
THE WEST LOOP in Chicago was once the city’s meatpacking district. That is long gone, but people still come to the neighbourh...
Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speech
Pick your most bracing defence of freedom from the Trump administration: here is the vice-president, J.D. Vance, lecturing Eu...
Jared Isaacman, the high-school dropout who will lead NASA
In 2021 Jared Isaacman, the man soon to become NASA’s boss, bought a 30-second ad at the Super Bowl. Mr Isaacman—a boyish-loo...
The education department is halved overnight
Republican presidential candidates have often promised to abolish the Department of Education. In 1983 Ronald Reagan said tha...
America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall
AS DONALD TRUMP raises tariffs, he is causing turmoil in financial markets. But for a motley group of American manufacturers,...
Young Americans are getting happier
AMERICA is in the midst of an epidemic of mental illness among young people. Few know this better than Daniel Eisenberg. In 2...
DOGE is driving America’s public-health guardians mad
ON A NARROW road on the main campus of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lies Building 21, the crescent-sh...