Month: April 2022

GOP opposition to the Iran deal is threatening to sink a Biden Pentagon nominee

President Joe Biden’s pick to be the third-highest civilian leader at the Pentagon is already facing a tough confirmation challenge

This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund

It’s a momentous week for action on climate change. On Thursday, the White House is convening 40 world leaders for

India can’t vaccinate its way out of its latest Covid-19 surge

India is facing a deepening Covid-19 crisis a year after it went into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. But

5 things to know about the new US climate commitment

The United States has an aggressive new commitment for fighting climate change: cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to

Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained

The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom

Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.

This story is one in our six-part series The Pandemic Playbook. Explore all the stories here. Every January or February,

Ben Rhodes is worried about Joe Biden’s climate change and China policies

Since leaving government at the end of the Obama administration, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has spent the

Joe Biden wants to prove democracy works — before it’s too late

There’s a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, the former British premier: “Democracy is the worst form of government except

Artists laid the foundation for Cuba’s protests. An economy in free fall and the pandemic ignited it.

“Patria y vida!” (“homeland and life”) is the slogan of the rare and massive protests that erupted across Cuba over

The political crisis in Tunisia, explained by an expert

Tunisia’s president has pushed the country’s fledgling democracy into crisis. Over the weekend, President Kais Saied fired the country’s prime