As the funding that helped turn the tide of the pandemic dries up, a dire burden mounts on the backs of uninsured Americans.

He’s a nice guy, and the unions like him. But he doesn’t have much of an agenda and doesn’t seem to want one.

Why did the West Virginia senator kill the biggest expansion of the social safety net since LBJ’s Great Society?

“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”

Republicans get four or eight years to rule; Democrats, only two. But Biden’s making excellent use of his limited time.

Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.

The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?

Sloppy language might imperil the president’s landmark law—and future legislative and administrative reforms, too.

A little-talked-about provision in the recently passed measure shines a new light on the often bungled efforts of the past to rein in runaway inequality.

Even as the president signs the American Rescue Plan Act into law, skittish Beltway moderates are already worried that he might want to do more.

They want to talk about Mr. Potato Head—and that’s been a good thing for the political media.