Democrats grapple with messaging on crime
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot this week became the first incumbent in the city to lose reelection in decades. Lightfoot’s failure to curb the city’s high crime was central to her loss, and this electio...
3 Mar 202311min
What lower insulin costs mean for other drug price fights
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced on Wednesday that it’s slashing the price of insulin and capping out-of-pocket costs for patients at $35 a month at most retail pharmacies. Plus, the FA...
2 Mar 202311min
American companies using illegal child labor
The federal government says the illegal use of child labor in the U.S. is on the rise. In the last fiscal year 835 companies employed more than 3,800 children illegally, according to the Labor Departm...
1 Mar 202311min
The fight over student loan forgiveness at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. If Biden’s plan is successful, more than 40 million borrowers could have up to $20,000 of their feder...
28 Feb 202311min
The rekindled debate over the origins of COVID-19
The Department of Energy over the weekend concluded in a "low confidence" assessment that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory in China. But government agencies remain largely split on wh...
27 Feb 202311min
One year later: millions of Ukrainians are still far from home
It's been a year since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, and roughly 13 million Ukrainians have been displaced as a result of the conflict. Around 113,000 Ukrainians have ended up in the United St...
24 Feb 202311min
How Ohio's train disaster could change the rail industry
In the aftermath of the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is calling on the rail industry to make take steps towards change. Plus, AI chatbots and t...
23 Feb 202311min
Putin’s missteps and miscalculations in Ukraine
We are almost at the one year milestone of Russia's war on Ukraine. And Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military have had a lot of missteps along the way. Axios' Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath exam...
22 Feb 202311min
