vaccine mandates

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

Enacting vaccination mandates demands political give and take.

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

Uptake of COVID vaccines for kids has been slow, but it has been slow for other vaccines too.

Corporate deregulation has long curtailed OSHA’s power to safeguard workers.

Understanding the battle over immunization—from the pre-Victorian era onward—between public health and the people may help in treating anti-vax sentiment.

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.

From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.

Tennessee’s surprising role in the adoption of life-saving seat belt laws.

Vaccine skepticism and misinformation have persisted since the smallpox epidemics. With the internet, it's only gotten worse.

While New York has yet to break away from the rest of the country, it's not for lack of trying.

Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.

With all organized religions supporting vaccination, states may question the sincerity of those claiming exemptions from getting vaccinated.

In the 1800s, they helped lay the groundwork for the anti-vaccine movement.

To better understand the controversy over New York’s measles outbreak, you have to go back to the late 19th century.