The COVID-19 pandemic has raised fundamental questions about how to balance the protection of public health and the protection of the economy. How should authorities weigh the risk of illness and…
The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic impact on economies across the globe,but Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab…
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 effectiveness of our protections against future pandemics will hinge upon how we think about where they come from. The emerging conventional wisdom casts pandemics as fundamentally inscrutable…
Venezuela's vice president is known for having a diplomatic style that is confrontational in tone but cautious in substance, and pursuing a strategy that marries public defiance with quiet pragmatism
Recently declassified meeting minutes between the two leaders show how Washington was well aware of Moscow's grievances over NATO expansion, but went ahead anyway
The Gabonese journalist discusses his debut novel, 'Le Testament de Charles', and how post-independence generations still bear the scars of colonialism