Health

Terrorist violence and COVID-19 have set maternal health back decades.

At least 2,500 Mexicans in the United States, many of them essential workers, have died from COVID-19. Back home in Mexico, their grieving families are left without support.

The world can’t repeat the mistakes of polio, tuberculosis, and measles.

With Sputnik V, the country is conflating good headlines with good health.

Coronavirus cases are spiking again in the country’s north, threatening to increase strain on public hospitals. This time, local governments face even more political pressure to lift restrictions.

Around the world, emergency powers are chipping away at democracy—sometimes with public support.

Just when the U.S. public needs clarity about Trump’s health, tradition and the president’s proclivities make that unlikely.

Trump is far from the first world leader to face the political implications of his own positive COVID-19 test. What happens next?

The regime has restricted aid to those who fled Afrin in 2018, leaving them without test kits, basic supplies, or access to specialist care.

For decades, U.S. strategists were thinking short-term. Its leaders should start taking an infinite perspective.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

It doesn’t matter whether Bush or Trump was worse when the problems are the same.

The vaccine partnership would help ensure equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine—including in the United States—but Trump won’t participate.

After announcing its decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency, the United States still seeks to shape the organization’s reform. It is struggling to find takers.

A focus on women’s health care should be the basis of any plan for equality.

Thanks to favorable demographics, digitization efforts, and quicker health responses, many countries of the global south are faring better than their wealthy counterparts.