List of Pandemics articles
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A Navajo man on a horse poses for tourists in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, on May 16, 2015. After the Travel Collapse, Build Tourism Back Better
To bring back jobs and make travel sustainable, Biden should reverse decades of neglect and reestablish a national U.S. tourism policy.
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The Belmont Towers Resort The World’s First Affluence Recession
The pandemic is making Americans poor—precisely because of the way they were rich.
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Medics ready to load a patient infected with COVID-19 into a waiting helicopter to be transfered from Verviers hospital to Antwerp, on November 9, 2020. Why Does Belgium Have the World’s Highest COVID-19 Death Rate?
Individualism, regional divisions, and fragmented government authority have led the capital of Europe to fail where many poorer and less-connected countries have succeeded.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump sing the national anthem during a rally outside the Governor's Mansion on November 14, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota. Thousands have gathered in cities around the country today to contest the results of the election earlier this month. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Trump’s Scorched Earth Farewell
Not only is Trump attempting a coup, he’s trying to leave everything in flames for the Biden administration.
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Medical staff treat a COVID-19 patient in Texas Why the United States Can’t Defeat the Coronavirus
For too many Americans, disasters are things that happen to other people, never themselves.
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Biotechnology company Moderna protocol files for COVID-19 vaccinations are kept at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, on August 13, 2020. The World’s Wild and Crazy Vaccine Ride Is Just Starting
Is it possible to have too many vaccines? We may soon find out.
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Dionicio Ortega, 55, and Juana Maldonado, 50, the parents of Claudio Ortega Maldonado, a Mexican immigrant who died of COVID-19 while living in New York City on April 22, look out over the village of Tlapa de Comonfort, Mexico, on Aug. 29. The Coronavirus Is Now Another Risk of U.S. Migration
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.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to nurses as he visits Watford General Hospital on Oct. 7, 2019 in Watford, England. The Coronavirus Is Killing Westerners. Immigrants Are Saving Them.
Foreign-born doctors and entrepreneurs are at the forefront of fighting the pandemic and resuscitating economies, but nativist politicians still want to keep them out.
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Young activists and supporters of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden gather and dance on Black Lives Matter Plaza just outside the White House on Nov. 4. Our Top Weekend Reads
America’s democracy demotion, U.N. peacemaking in the age of plague, and Biden’s Putin challenge.
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us-coronavirus-cases-hot-spots-49-states-newlead Almost Every U.S. State Is Now Officially a Coronavirus Hot Spot
This is what an utter pandemic catastrophe looks like.
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A person is vaccinated during a national campaign in Caracas on March 14. Vaccine Inequality Fuels Suspicion and Division
The world can’t repeat the mistakes of polio, tuberculosis, and measles.
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An employee wearing protective equipment is seen at the headquarters of Russia's biotech company, BIOCAD, which is developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, in Siberia, Vektor on May 20. Kremlin Spin Doctors are Leading Russia’s Vaccine Development
With Sputnik V, the country is conflating good headlines with good health.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s name appears on a coronavirus economic assistance check in Washington, DC on April 29. The United States Got the Pandemic Economic Response Right
It spent early and spent big—and is now poised to reap the rewards.
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A worker stands in front of a banner for Google AI during a presentation marking the opening of the first artificial intelligence center in Africa in Accra, Ghana, on April 10, 2019. Is Big Tech Setting Africa Back?
Data colonialism is rampant on the African continent. Smart regulation can stop it.
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A pedestrian looks at an illuminated map board in the empty streets of the Alpine resort of Zermatt, with the Matterhorn mountain amid the spread of the COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus. Switzerland Is Choosing Austerity Over Life
Why Switzerland became one of the world's worst coronavirus hotspots.
