Health

Disasters usually come with falling birth rates. But this time, they might not recover unless governments take action now.

The pandemic’s impact shows growth is an arbitrary target.

WHO has no power to demand openness or independently confirm data at present.

Waning immunity, new virus variants—India’s sharp surge could be caused by any number of alarming factors.

Beating the pandemic has made the government and people overly complacent about China.

Slovakia’s prime minister has resigned over a secret delivery of Moscow’s Sputnik V as Brussels struggles to keep the EU united.

Director Skye Fitzgerald’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward” chronicles Yemeni health care workers as they wrestle with famine and violence.

The long-awaited report is unlikely to quell concerns about China’s influence over the investigation.

Facing new coronavirus variants and threats of backsliding, the world's effort to protect its most vulnerable populations must accelerate

From FP Analytics: A country-by-country assessment of government responses to the pandemic.

Biden’s push for gender equality is a huge change from Trump, but experts stop short of calling it a feminist foreign policy.

Netanyahu’s focus on maintaining ultra-Orthodox support as the pandemic raged didn’t help him win, but it has left deep scars.

In announcing it would prioritize travelers who had received Chinese-made vaccines, Beijing sparked outrage in countries where those aren’t available.

The ambitious head of the IAEA is reinventing the nuclear watchdog—though some fear he’s spreading the agency too thin.

Roberto Burioni fuses science with vulgar rhetoric to combat anti-vaxxers.

In March 2020, a study asked experts and laypeople for their predictions. Neither group came close to being right.