Public Health

Every era gets the infectious diseases—and the resulting political upheaval—it has coming.

Market response to the coronavirus, China deflecting blame, and the dawn of post-democratic Europe.

A trans-Atlantic chasm has opened up on pandemic labor policy. We’ll soon know which side got it right.

Intelligence agencies will play a growing role in keeping their countries safe during the pandemic—by any means necessary.

The Trump administration has made one mistake after another—and, with some foreign-policy changes, could emerge with more global power anyway.

Lessons from Taiwan, Canada, South Korea, Georgia, and Iceland show that the coronavirus can be stopped.

The pandemic hit Iran harder than almost anywhere—but may have strengthened the regime’s hard-liners.

Beijing is pushing to become a public health superpower—and quickly found a willing international partner.

With the coronavirus pandemic, the United States faces the greatest global challenge to its sanctions policy since the 1990s.

Governments around the world are banning fake news about the crisis—and cracking down on their critics while they’re at it.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.

The coronavirus pandemic might not disrupt politics in wealthy Western democracies, but it is likely to unleash political instability—and even regime change—in developing countries already suffering from an economic crisis.

Why standard economic theories have no answers for this kind of crisis.

Trump botched the coronavirus response. The United States cannot make the same mistake again.

China and Russia are sending medical aid to Italy and other coronavirus-stricken countries, but their motives aren’t so altruistic.

The Palestinian health care system has been held back by military occupation and is unprepared for the coronavirus onslaught. Israel must act swiftly.

For a daily laborer in Mumbai, staying home means “my children and my wife will die.”

Democrats pushing back on sanctions, the use of colonial-era quarantine laws, and blaming China for the coronavirus.

The pandemic is starting to topple one of the pillars of the globalization era.

Under the right conditions, social frustration can herald the dawn of new political solidarity.