For a few optimistic weeks in June, it seemed that Oregon had turned a corner. With vaccines widely available, COVID-19 cases had plummeted and masks were coming off. K-12 students, struggling from ...

Dec. 31—It would be easy to be depressed when assessing the year 2021. Record COVID-19 deaths. In the United States, that's over 800,000 and more likely 1 million. Surprisingly, more of those deaths ...

The editorial is not a 10- to 15-inch space where a newspaper gets to let down its hair and loosen its belt and change the rules that apply to the rest of its coverage. In a news story, the reporters ...

This year Nature Communications has published original research and opinion across the Earth sciences. To celebrate these contributions, the editors of the Earth team select some of their highlights ...

News of a new. fast-spreading Covid-19 variant called omicron swept the world this week. Scientists went into high gear to learn its properties. Flight bans disrupted international air travel.

What do you say about a year in which the world economy rebounded nicely from the first COVID-19 pandemic shocks but then saw the price of some steel products double in the 12 months from July 2020 to ...

Mary Ferrell, founder of the Maslow Project, wanted to help kids and families without homes. José González and Dañel Malán, the couple behind Milagro, wanted to build community through the arts. Pam ...

A year ago, on a Christmas unlike any most of us could remember, amid a pandemic but with vaccines beginning to become available, we editorialized about Christmas as a day, no matter what a person’s ...

This past year has felt far longer than most years. An insurrection at the Capitol, a pandemic with no end, Michael Madigan’s ignominious exit, and more. Here’s a look — through excerpts of editorials ...

The great victory of the 2020 election wasn’t the ascent of a candidate or cause or ballot initiative. It was the triumph of democracy against a plot to subvert and overturn the results of a ...

Tuesday’s election results gave Republicans a lift. In the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. President Joe Biden had won the state by double digits ...