At ground zero of the global pandemic, life goes on
The eyeglasses shops above the former Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market have reopened, tourists are flocking to the Yellow Crane Tower, and mask-less revelers are packing into the city’s cl...
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How to respond to symbols of systemic racism
Mississippi recently ratified a new state flag, opting for a magnolia flower to replace its traditional Confederate emblem.
工作与未来
Here’s the pope’s prescription for resetting the global economy in response to COVID-19
“The story did not end the way it was meant to,” Pope Francis wrote recently, deftly excommunicating about a half-century’s worth of economic ideology.
Here’s how US presidents get elected (it’s not by winning the most votes)
If Americans could vote on the way they vote for president, polls suggest they’d dump it.
世界经济论坛制度
The worst-case climate-change scenario could look like this. We need to avert it
Sometimes you need to confront the worst possible outcome in order to avert it.
This is how flu season might affect the COVID-19 curve
Several months ago, the inhabitants of one half of the planet braced for a potentially devastating addendum to COVID-19 as another flu season approached. And then, nothing.
城市转型
Can we prevent a surge in pandemic-related homelessness?
“I don’t know what devil designed this maze,” a woman in Houston, Texas, said recently about the experience of being evicted in the midst of a pandemic.
健康与医疗系统
遏制新冠肺炎引起的失业，政府还能支付多少补贴？
在新冠肺炎疫情期间，英国纳税人帮助企业给不上班的工人发放薪水，从而控制了失业率。但是与部署了这一政策的其它国家一样，英国经济承受了高昂的代价——此举可能将英国赤字扩大到上一次全球金融危机期间的峰值水平的近两倍。
健康与医疗系统
How long can governments keep spending to stem COVID-19 job losses?
Taxpayers in the UK have curbed unemployment during COVID-19 by compensating companies for keeping idled workers on the payroll. But as in other countries deploying this policy tool, it's...
健康与医疗系统
How have the remotest places on Earth fared during COVID-19?
This past March, passenger service on the “Silver Supporter,” a lifeline to the outside world for the Pitcairn Islands, was suspended due to COVID-19. A 32-hour trip on the freighter is n...
健康与医疗系统
Is COVID-19 a seasonal disease?
Last month, the results of a COVID-19 study in New South Wales, Australia suggested the disease spreads faster in periods of lower humidity during winter. Several weeks later, after a fre...
The legacy of ‘redlining’. How earlier urban zoning reinforces racial segregation
Nearly a century before George Floyd’s fatal encounter with police at a Minneapolis intersection, a federal agency warned that the area located just a few blocks to the west had declined ...
健康与医疗系统
Outbreak or breakout? How to protect prison populations from COVID-19
This past March, the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio was estimated to be at 153% of its official capacity. One month later, roughly 80% of the American prison’s population – more ...
What does ‘Defund the Police’ really mean?
It’s a phrase that’s spurring momentum for fundamental change. It’s also drawing heated backlash.
The plight of Peru illustrates the danger of COVID-19 to developing countries
Those wondering if the threat of COVID-19 is receding should take a hard look at Peru.