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David Leonhardt Jul 22, 2021 9:20 PM ET It’s hard to imagine a more alarming sign of a society’s well-being than an inability to keep its citizens alive. While some of the reasons are mysterious, others are fairly clear. American society has become far more unequal than it used to be, and the recent increases in mortality are concentrated among working-class Americans, especially those without a four-year college degree. For many, daily life lacks the structure, status and meaning that it once had, as the Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have explained. Many peop...

Driven by covid deaths, U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020 Allyson Chiu, Lindsey Bever, Ariana Eunjung Cha © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post A family carries the casket of a covid victim, who died in his 50s, at a Hagerstown, Md., cemetery in January. Almost three-fourths of the decline in U.S. life expectancy last year is attributed to deaths from covid-19, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy in the United States dropped by a year and a half in 2020 — a continuation of a worrisome decline that was observed in the firs...

AP Photo/Seth Wenig On March 23, 2020, President Donald Trump first hinted that the lockdowns were not his first choice to control COVID-19. He tweeted, “We can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself!” At that point, he was considering how to handle the end of the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” initiative. That phrase would be funny if it were not so infuriating. The media portrayed Trump’s comments to be solely concerned with the economy and his reelection. On March 24, 2020, Trump clarified that he was worried about increased suicides if the economy remained closed for to...

In preparation for her detective role in HBO’s “The Mare of Easttown,” set in suburban Philadelphia, Kate Winslet visited the city’s Kensington neighborhood to understand the opioid epidemic. As the Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported, a notorious heroin economy continues to thrive there. Some street corners gross more than $20 million annually. In a New York Times interview, Winslet recounted heartbreaking scenes in Kensington, once described as the “Walmart of Heroin.” In one instance, she saw a man who “had been amputated from the knee down on his right leg, and he was in...

It has to do with education and income differentiating outcomes.