Science has yet to comprehensively answer why Delta appears to affect young people more than the other strains, but the steadily filling hospital beds stand as testament to the truth of it

This is no time for advocates to seek the low road; it’s already underwater, and no half-assed infrastructure bill can fix it

It appears grimly clear that too many of us simply won’t work to fix these things because they won’t because they won’t, so there

We will see if Biden’s epoch in the Senate will serve him as a negotiator now that the rubber has met the road

“Learn to live with it” is the new catchphrase coming out of 10 Downing Street — which is, you may recall, exactly the tack Trump wanted to take from the beginning no matter the loss in lives.

If an announcement like this came under the headline, “Spaceship From Planet XQ41 Appears Above Sacramento, Pays All Rent, Departs Through Hole in Sky,” my level of surprise would have been pretty much the same.

If the infrastructure bill survives the current battles and is passed through the crucible of reconciliation, thank Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders first

The infrastructure bill can be passed in the Senate via reconciliation without a single Republican vote … lashing Manchin and his people to the mast is the paramount priority

“Our democracy is fundamentally at stake. History will judge what we do at this moment.”

The consternation over these new rules is palpable. Vaccinated folks can unmask, which is super, great, but who is vaccinated and who isn’t?