Joe Biden's choice of a running mate will help voters envision what a Biden presidency would look like — and help them decide whether he deserves to be president.

Rather than using his powers during the pandemic, Trump simply wants to be adored for having them.

If only such important decisions weren't in the hands of Trump, a president so obviously unprepared and ill-equipped to make them.

Asking for help can be scary and uncomfortable. If you can assist, don't wait for a request — offer help now.

I'm running low on toilet paper, thanks to hoarding in response to the coronavirus outbreak. I'm not worried, because I'm done with TP for good.

Autocratic regimes in Russia, Turkey and Venezuela are already maneuvering to exploit the coronavirus crisis to further entrench their rule.

Since FDR, presidents have taken on the role of comforter-in-chief in moments of national crisis.

Americans required to "shelter in place" should also be entitled to "shelter in job."

Agricultural employers and state health authorities need to act immediately before COVID-19 becomes a major crisis among workers who provide our food supply.

Trump cedes power to the states when it suits him, and claims it for the federal government when it suits.

Anthony Fauci, our national truth-teller, spoke plainly before he was forced to make a retraction by a president more comfortable with lies.

Popular Science Editor Corinne Iozzio talks about how to make the tricky science of coronavirus understandable to an online audience.

In these frightening times, I am struck by the heroic and merciful acts I first encountered as a young child behind barbed wire.

Two state pandemic coalitions represent a refusal to bow and scrape to Trump or to fight one another for federal resources.

Other presidents have expanded their executive power during national crises. Trump is trying, but he's so bad at the job, he won't succeed.

The left blames the right, the right blames China and the World Health Organization. Governors blame the president, and he blames them right back.

22 million Americans have filed jobless claims in recent weeks. Millions of them have also lost their employer-based health insurance at the worst possible time.

Comparing the coronavirus crisis and the surprise attack in Hawaii in 1941 only points up the gulf between the divisive Donald Trump and the unifying Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Saving Wall Street in the 2008 crash didn't save Main Street. We can't let that happen again.

Collecting and analyzing real-time data on the number of cases and deaths during a disease outbreak is crucial. Here's why we've failed.

I've been doing my part to keep an eye on my older neighbors, which helps calm my own feelings of fear and helplessness.

With American flags and Trump banners waving, angry citizens are taking to the streets to protest stay-at-home edicts.

The days run together during the coronavirus quarantine, but a jigsaw puzzle and a brief family moment help define them.

Chaos in the face of a crisis like COVID-19 is just the American way.

We already know far more about this virus than scientists ever knew during the Spanish flu epidemic

California could restart its economy by creating a "virus alert" system that would regulate COVID risk by automatically reinstating shelter-in-place orders when infection or death rates get too high.

Pearl's beheading opened the door to more violence against journalists. Those who abducted him should remain in prison.

The hospital-at-home model could help coronavirus patients who need sustained medical supervision but don't need to be admitted into a hospital.

Why are Trump and his advisors praising people for protesting against policies the administration has endorsed?

Sorry, liberators. Court rulings have firmly established that public health closures — like our current coronavirus shutdowns — are constitutional.

Like everything else, street protest during a pandemic has to take other forms.

Research has been paused on everything but COVID-19, which could have serious consequences on cures for other diseases for generations to come.

Dancing at home during the shutdown is the coronavirus pandemic's bathtub gin.

I've learned that a moment always comes along to remind you that your race defines you above all else.

A model predicts COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. will drop to zero by June. Another suggests without a vaccine, the coronavirus will be with us for years.

President Trump accused Voice of America of buying into Chinese propaganda in covering coronavirus. That's absurd.

The Justice Department weighed in on a social distancing case in Mississippi to strike a blow for Trump's side in the coronavirus culture wars.

Here's an idea: Put your phone away during your daily walks and talk to strangers, at a safe distance. And when this is all over, keep doing it.

In this pandemic, we need an emergency increase in the number of green cards issued to immigrants with critically required skills.

Proposing rational modifications to quarantine measures is not like denying science or saying Jesus is your vaccine.

Once antibody tests for the coronavirus are broadly available, will we allow society to be divided into two groups — the immune and non-immune?

When I came home from college because of the coronavirus outbreak, my eighth-grade English teacher, my mentor, postponed a meeting with me. She had a fever and a cough.

Stuck in coronavirus lockdown, all I wanted to do was sleep in and eat toast. And then I rediscovered my bike.

For years, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has been asking people to pay to use the image of the Hollywood sign — which it doesn't own or control.

Housing patterns and transit modes could turn out to be decisive factors in why some cities were better able to fend off spread of the coronavirus.

Being born black in America means facing the likelihood of poorer health outcomes over a lifetime.

College students, trade in lousy online classes for a pandemic-safe mobilization to turn out 18-to-29-year-old climate voters in November.

Angelenos spend an average of 103 hours a year stuck in traffic. Is it possible to keep our roads the way they are now?

When competitions resume post-coronavirus quarantine, fans will celebrate the simple fact they can sit next to strangers and cheer as one.

Turns out a range of charlatans out there are peddling industrial bleach as a cure-all.