2019 was a banner year for life expectancy – the global average at birth hit 72.6 years, higher than any country in the world had managed to record in 1950. Then, 2020 happened.
Countries around the world are racing to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19.
Some years truly distinguish themselves.
A Black cast member of the American comedy mainstay “Saturday Night Live” recently quipped that he’s skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines, though “I’m on a white TV show so I might actually ...
COVID-19 vaccines should start becoming available in the Western world for the first time in a matter of days. So, who should be given early access?
Traditionally, the first peak on a roller coaster ride is the tallest. But for Europeans faced with COVID-19, the second ascent in terms of confirmed cases and deaths has been far steeper...
美国的公共债务最近已经达到了第二次世界大战以来的最高水平，但一件有趣的事情发生了：公众似乎并不介意。
While much of the world’s attention was focused on the aftermath of an election and a pandemic still hitting bleak milestones, a pair of hurricanes blew through Central America and the Ca...
As the votes were tallied last week in the US elections, it became clearer that most Americans inhabit urban islands in a sea of opposing political views.
When public debt in the US recently hit a peak unmatched since World War II, a funny thing happened: the public didn’t really seem to mind.
民意调查表明，如果美国人可以对总统选举制度进行投票，他们将放弃现行制度。
More than 16 million cases of COVID-19 were confirmed between April and July of this year, there were nearly 630,000 related deaths, and the world’s richest people got about $2 trillion r...
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...
Mississippi recently ratified a new state flag, opting for a magnolia flower to replace its traditional Confederate emblem.
“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.
