Anthony Fauci

The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year.

The former first lady fought the conservative Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic.

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.

Politics, public health and a pandemic. What we didn’t learn from HIV.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.

It's the health inequities of today, not the infamous "Tuskegee Study," that explain many Black people's distrust of the American health system.

The cosmic delusions of Elon Musk and Wernher von Braun.

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.

When medicine and journalism defeated cholera.

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.