The Great Depression of the 1930s led to PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which created some of the United States’ most important public insurance programs.Social Security,…

The second decade of the third millennium has kicked off with a global crisis in the form of COVID-19. The virus started in China and has since caused the entire world to go into lockdown. Every day…

The economic free fall accompanying the coronavirus pandemic has, by some measures, made the world a cleaner place. Air pollution in Chinese, Indian, andU.S.cities is way down. InChinaalone, lower…

As major European countries cheered a drop in coronavirus death rates this week, a topUnited Nations officialwarned of a looming crisis in poor countries that could "boomerang" back to rich…

The coronavirus pandemic is perhaps the defining struggle of our era, but the global response to it has stalled over a question of scheduling.The United States andAustraliawant accountability now:…

Muslims in Jerusalem are praying outside in small groups during the holy month of Ramadan as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic remain in place, including a halt to prayers at the Al…

Over the last week, Washington has turned its eye once more to tightening the binds of containment, in response to Iranian provocations in the Gulf, moving to extend a UN arms embargo and deliver a…

While governments around the world are still trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic, opportunistic Jihadists and other militant extremists, adept at exploiting confusion and chaos to further…

As if anyone needed another reminder of fraying transatlantic ties, the novel coronavirus pandemic has made abundantly clear just how bad relations betweenthe United StatesandEuropehave become. After…

The current coronavirus lockdown measures in Lebanon have resulted in a national economic downturn, which has been getting worse day by day. The Lebanese government has failed to implement plans,…