Public Health

The U.S. administration exports anti-abortion policies abroad and strips international agreements of references to “sexual orientation” and “gender identities.”

Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it's starting to trigger even bigger ones.

The Israeli prime minister is trying to coast on his reputation as a grandmaster of national security, diplomacy, and economics—but it isn’t working.

Seoul seems to have shown the way to mitigating both the health and the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

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

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

The next pandemic could be bioengineered in someone’s garage using cheap and widely available technology.

The managing director and the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund lay out a strategy for sustained recovery.

With humanitarian aid and internet services restricted, the conflict-torn state could soon face a public health disaster.

If a vaccine comes out before the election, there are very good reasons not to take it.

Disruptions of mail aren’t just a problem for the election—they’re a danger to millions of American lives.

Poor governance, disinformation, censorship, and punishing U.S. sanctions have turned a crisis into a disaster.

Even as they struggle to control the pandemic, governments should move quickly to reopen borders instead of giving in to xenophobia, nationalism, and illusions of autarky.

Throughout history, pandemics have been a great equalizer. Here’s why this time is different.

Health care success could inspire economic change, but the future still looks bleak.

Lebanese people, rocked by a massive port explosion, are fed up with incompetence.

It is only temporary—and poorly enforced—but the move does represent a first step in overcoming decades of brutality.