Amanda Fraedas, a food delivery gig worker, carries an order out of El Jefe’s Taqueria in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16. | Blake Nissen for Boston Globe via Getty Images A survey of Freelancers Union members showed the vast majority of freelancers who applied for government relief still haven’t received ...

Low gas prices in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on March 30. | Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Oil and gas companies were already facing structural problems before Covid-19 and are in long-term decline. As countries across the world have gone into lockdown in response to Covid-19, economies are ...

A stock trader blows bubble gum during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 1, 2019. | Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Everything is bad, and yet somehow the stock market is good. The stock market is doing fine, even though everything else is definitely not. Earlier in ...

Rick Nazarro of Colonial Manor Realty talks with interest buyers in the driveway of a home he is trying to sell in Revere, Massachusetts, on May 2. | Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images The housing market isn’t collapsing. For house hunters wondering whether the coronavirus crisis ...

Christina Animashaun/Getty Images The surprisingly complex finances of a couple who are choosing not to walk down the aisle. Kim Steins and Geoff Marshall have been together for 15 years, but they don’t ever plan to get married. The pair met at the College of Idaho when Kim needed a ...

Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court’s budget during a House hearing on March 7, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Alito gets very upset if you suggest that racism exists. Earlier this term, the Supreme Court held, 6-3, in Ramos v. Louisiana that criminal defendants in state court may be ...

Actor and activist Jane Fonda marches during the “Fire Drill Fridays” climate change protest and rally on Capitol Hill on January 10, 2020, in Washington, DC. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images 3 enduring features of US public opinion on global warming and clean energy. The Pew Research Center is out with ...

People rally in favor of single-payer health care in California on June 27, 2017. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Ezekiel Emanuel discusses global health care, pandemic response, and presidential leadership on The Ezra Klein Show. I got my start as a blogger. But more specifically, I got my start ...

On his way to board Marine One, President Donald Trump walks away from a reporter’s microphone and gives a thumbs-up sign on June 23 in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The president is continually more focused on good numbers than good policy. Rallying the faithful in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on ...

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify before a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2020, in Washington, DC.  | Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images The nation’s top infectious disease doctor says he believes a ...

Sens. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Chuck Schumer sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell critiquing Republicans’ police reform bill. | Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images They’re now poised to sink the legislation during a vote on Wednesday. Senate Democrats, in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have unequivocally rejected ...

New York Police Department officers during a rally on May 31, 2020, in New York City. | Justin Heiman/Getty Images A new poll shows a majority of Americans support redirecting funds from police to other services. It’s undeniable that the protests that have swept the country in the month since ...

Amanda Northrop/Vox Voters in Kentucky, New York, and Virginia are casting their ballots. There are also two runoffs in Mississippi and North Carolina. Amid a long list of Tuesday primaries and runoffs in Kentucky, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, and Mississippi, progressives are looking to notch some wins. A number ...

President Donald Trump walks in the rain toward Marine One after stopping to speak to the media on the South Lawn of the White House as he prepares to depart for a Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on June 20, 2020. | Pete Marovich/Getty Images Trump’s Arizona rally is somehow a worse ...

Supporters of US President Donald Trump react as he concludes speaking at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | Win McNamee/Getty Images The president’s rhetoric is seen as fueling a surge in hate incidents toward Asian Americans. In a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ...