In Russia, the pandemic has wrong-footed both the opposition and the authorities. The opposition, used to comparing President Vladimir Putin’s regime unfavourably with largely more effective…

In October 1918, the Spanish flu descended on Stanford University. Residents donned facemasks, football games were cancelled, and students were asked to quarantine on campus. But classes and…

The novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to upend urban life as we know it. Metropolises such as New York City have ground to a halt while grappling with high rates of infection. The requirements of…

Dr. Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian-American space scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo…

No country has been as simultaneously praised and criticized asSwedenhas for its response to the novel coronavirus. Each day brings new discussion, much of it heated, of the merits of the Swedish…

Even before the coronavirus hitBritain, exhaustion, anxiety, and stress were already endemic in the country's overstretched National Health Service. Then came the government’s mishandling of the…

Last month’s media frenzy over the health and possible death of the North Korean leaderKim Jong Unseemed in many respects like an indulgent diversion. During the nearly three-week period, starting…

If the novel coronavirus pandemic were turned into a movie, a pivotal scene would capture the unforgettable events ofSaturday, March 14, at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Three days prior,U…

The novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the global economy, shuttering businesses, disrupting supply chains, and causing millions of people to lose their jobs. But the pandemic has been especially…

United States President Donald Trump has appointed Dr Moncef Slaoui, a Moroccon-born Belgiun-American expert in immunology and vaccinology,as the new chief of what President…