In our essay "Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold," for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, we described the struggle against COVID-19 in terms of a baseball game and estimated thatthe United…

In August,IndiasurpassedBrazilandthe United Statesto earn the sad distinction of having the fastest-growing novel coronavirus caseload in the world.Indiahas repeatedly smashed global records of daily…

Latin Americais now the part of the world most affected by COVID-19, both by confirmed cases and by deaths. The region is reeling from overburdened health systems, worsening economic…

When stay-at-home orders were announced in the spring, some people wryly speculated about a COVID-19 baby boom. Social media users even came up with a few suggestions for what this new generation…

The federal government has told states to be ready to distribute doses of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1 _ two days before the election. The move raises major questions we can't answer yet. Is…

On July 19, 2020,a daring mission blasted into the skies taking aim at Mars; the dusty, cold, desert planet that has captured human imagination for centuries. It was the first interplanetary mission…

Everyone expected the PlayStation 5 vs. the Xbox Series X to be the big video game battle of 2020, but it looks like that console war is taking a backseat to a bigger conflict. Epic Games, the…

The development of artificial intelligence was once a largely technical issue, confined to the halls of academia and the labs of the private sector. Today, it is an arena of geopolitical…

The race for a coronavirus vaccine has taken an unexpected turn this week. Ever since this race began, Oxford University of the UK seemed poised to make the first manufactured vaccine. However, the…

Cindy Wang’s whole life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothing and sends photos and audio messages to her grandma and uncle in Guangzhou. It’s…