As a Christmas present to statistics lovers, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the population of the nation and the 50 states as of July 1, 2021. The Bureau admits up front that, due ...

9/14/01: It was so sweet of the kids to give me a journal after 9/11, embossed with my name. I hope I have something interesting to put in it. When I kept a journal at school, after a week or two ...

But Defoe’s less well-known 1722 book, "A Journal of the Plague Year," about the 1665 London outbreak of bubonic plague, might be the more useful read for this moment.

Twenty-five years later, as a revival of Hoffman’s play begins a two-week run off-Broadway, the epidemic has permanently altered the cultural landscape, from theater to politics.

Dr. Gail Saltz, a professor of psychiatry and bestselling author, has some valuable advice for all of us hunkered down in our homes to weather the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m telling peo…

From "Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider's Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer's Short and Tragic Reign," by Lloyd Constantine. Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Kaplan Publishing.

A comparison of these estimates with the April 1, 2020 census covers almost exactly 15 of the first 16 months of the COVID pandemic. The headline is that 2020-21 was the slowest growth year in ...

As a Christmas present to statistics lovers, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the population of the nation and the 50 states as of July 1, 2021. The Bureau admits up front that, due ...

“A Journal of the Plague Year “is a grim, well written, reflective record of behavior under siege. It’s long, determinedly repetitive for emphasis and can be dipped into.

While watching Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefing last Saturday, my 92-year-old stepfather, Juan, made a curious observation. “The 21st century started