In November, theU.S. Supreme Courtstruck down emergency limits thatNew York Statehad placed on religious gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions, the Court ruled,…

Here is a remarkable, underappreciated fact: TheU.S.economy has performed far better than that of many of the country’s peers during this horrible year. TheInternational Monetary FundexpectstheU.S…

In April, British Prime MinisterBoris Johnsonbecame one of the first high-profile world leaders to contract the novel coronavirus. He was hospitalized for about a week, including several nervous days…

Amid the tumult of coronavirus, the US presidential election is looming ever closer.When a global pandemic sickens more than 6 million Americans and kills over 210,000, its ripples -- economic,…

The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every nation in the world, with results as variable as each government's response. While some countries rapidly harnessed the powers of science and…

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…

As thecoronavirus pandemiccontinues to sweep across the United States, with more than 2.3 million confirmed cases and over 120,000 deaths, it is has made vivid the systemic shortcomings of the…

Analysts of international affairs rarely focus on how the domestic condition ofthe United Statesshapes the country’s influence and role in the world, but today the connection could hardly be more…

Amid the coronavirus crisis, foreign policy debates in Washington are coming to center around the future of America’s relationship with Beijing. While a casual reading of American media would suggest…