Good politicians are rarely modest. The job requires an uncanny ability to sell each bit of incremental progress as a...

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Two and a half years ago, Ashish Jha was the White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator, a job that meant getting...

Some Republican senators, it seems, have begun to fret that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not being entirely honest when...

This spring, months before the recent dramatic departures from the CDC, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled with the agency’s scientists...

Derrick Hiebert had planned to stick it out at FEMA. He was an assistant administrator working on hazard mitigation—he specialized...

In February 2010, Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move!” with a wide-ranging plan to curb childhood obesity. The campaign took aim...

The White House’s AI Action Plan, released in July, mentions “health care” only three times. But it is one of...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coming undone. The White House announced last night that it had ousted...