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April 11, 2019

Europe
How Things Could Turn Ugly With Brexit

The big day was March 29. Then it was April 12. And now Europe’s powers have decreed that Britain has until Oct. 31 to decide how — or indeed whether — it would like to leave the European Union. At t…

Chairman Richard Tice speaks at the launch of the newly created 'Brexit Party' campaign for the European elections, in Coventry, Britain April 12, 2019. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

November 4, 2020

COVID-19
The Global Economy: Heading Toward a Dark Winter?

The next U.S. president will face a teetering global economy and an anemic recovery at home. More government support in the United States and abroad is needed.

November 4, 2022

Health
Perilous Pathogens: How Climate Change Is Increasing the Threat of Diseases

At the COP27 summit, leaders will discuss how to deal with the many consequences of climate change. These four cases show how the climate crisis is altering the threat of zoonotic diseases.

An infectious diseases research team in full body protective suits, catches bats for a study outside the Khao Chong Phran Cave in Ratchaburi, Thailand

August 18, 2020

Cybersecurity
To Save the Postal Service, Bring It Online

Rather than preserving the post office of the twentieth century in amber or doing away with it all together, there is a third approach: Modernize it to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.

A U.S. postal worker loads his truck as he begins his day during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Carlsbad, California.

January 10, 2022

Latin America
Latin America's New Economic Model May Emerge in Chile

Once the region’s no-frills, free-market poster child, Chile needs more government spending, not less, to sustain its growth trajectory.

Chile's president elect, Gabriel Boric, gives a thumbs up