The world’s major faiths face a test, and some religious leaders are failing by endangering human lives in the name of adhering to tradition–and ushering in a new age of secularism in the process.

Authoritarian rulers are using the Covid‐​19 pandemic as an excuse to entrench and extend unaccountable powers.

The current system of drug production is based on the idea of patents, which are temporary monopolies over a particular process or product granted to inventors for a defined time period. But will this work in the age of Coronavirus?

The American health‐​care system leaves much room for improvement, but Medicare for All wouldn’t have spared us the pain of this pandemic.

The FDA lets doctors prescribe off‐​label drugs all the time. Now that there’s a pandemic, some governors have decided doctors can’t make those decisions for themselves.

This is a stressful time for all of us, and particularly for parents and children who find themselves displaced from the familiar routines of work and school.