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[Mac Margolis] Coronavirus’ toll will rewrite Latin America’s future

ViewpointsJul 6, 2020

As much as guns and gadgets, pathogens have written history in the Americas. Smallpox cut through the Aztecs long before Hernan Cortes’s troops marched into Tenochtitlan. Yellow fever stopped Napoleo...
Girlfriend of Trump’s eldest son tests positive

World NewsJul 4, 2020

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Trump’s eldest son and a top fund-raising official for the Trump re-election campaign, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday before a Fourth of...
[Noah Smith] Coronavirus brings US decline out in the open

ViewpointsJul 2, 2020

The US’ decline started with little things that people got used to. Americans drove past empty construction sites and didn’t even think about why the workers weren’t working, then wondered why roads ...
[Anjani Trivedi] China’s financial system running out of room

ViewpointsJul 1, 2020

Despite deleveraging rhetoric, risks lurking in China’s financial system are coming to the fore and starting to hurt a highly sensitive group: repressed savers. Eroding investor confidence and blocka...
[Andreas Kluth] The future of Europe could be decided in Poland

ViewpointsJun 30, 2020

The European Union has many problems, but the most fundamental may be the rift between northern and southern member states and the even deeper fault line running between west and east. That latter fi...
[Andy Mukherjee] It’s hard to be next China

ViewpointsJun 30, 2020

Is the global monetary order ready for another reboot? In the 1960s, Japan and Europe exported their way to post-World War II prosperity under the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton Woods agreement...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Putin puts his post-COVID comeback to a vote

ViewpointsJun 26, 2020

Russia’s president has not had a good pandemic. But Vladimir Putin is staging a comeback, with a touch of foreign-policy grandstanding, a dash of military theater and a plebiscite on constitutional r...
[Noah Smith] Fear of infection hurt economy more than lockdowns

ViewpointsJun 25, 2020

Until recently, it seemed like the contentious debate over lockdowns was over. By the end of May, many states were defying the warnings of public-health experts, reopening restaurants, retail and pub...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s frugal four are right about two things

ViewpointsJun 24, 2020

The European Commission’s plan for a 750 billion-euro ($842 billion) fund to deal with the economic consequences of the pandemic is a quantum leap in Europe’s crisis response. Yet, for all the good i...
[Adam Minter] On COVID and protests, some good news

ViewpointsJun 23, 2020

On Tuesday morning, cars and pedestrians lined up for free COVID-19 tests in south Minneapolis, six blocks from where George Floyd was killed last month. As protests flared after his death, Minnesota...
[Andreas Kluth] Nuclear arms race worse than last one

ViewpointsJun 22, 2020

As long as the pandemic rages, the world’s leaders are understandably preoccupied with the threat of disease. But there are other dangers to humanity that demand attention. One of the most frightenin...
[David Fickling] The most troubling China-India conflict is economic

ViewpointsJun 22, 2020

What’s worse than two populous, nuclear-armed countries killing each other’s soldiers? Two populous, nuclear-armed countries letting their longer-term relationship wither. Fighting along the Chinese...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Case study for second-wave lockdowns

ViewpointsJun 17, 2020

Mexico, India and Pakistan are among the countries that have hit record numbers of new coronavirus cases in recent days, as drastic regulations that kept streets empty and people apart are lifted. It...
[Therese Raphael] What a slave trader’s statue says about Britain

ViewpointsJun 15, 2020

If Britons wanted a reason to protest against institutional racism, or police brutality, they didn’t have to look 6,400 kilometers away. There have been plenty of local examples over the years. “I ca...
[Timothy L. O’Brien] Why Trump has trouble addressing Black Lives Matter

ViewpointsJun 15, 2020

April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent with American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN, reported Tuesday afternoon that President Donald Trump is planning a major address ...