Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it cou
As new confirmed cases of the pandemic novel coronavirus disease surge in the U.S., intellectuals are looking into how the outbreak may bring changes to society in a fundamental way, and expose some
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom delivers his address in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO)
In a career spanning several decades, artificial intelligence researcher and professor Stuart Russell has contributed extensive knowledge on the subject, including foundational textbooks. He joined us
U.S. President Donald Trump. /VCG Editor's note: Sun Chenghao is an assistant research professor at the Institute of American Studies under the China Institutes of Contemporary International R
Visitors walk through Nakamise Alley at Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2020. /AP The coronavirus pandemic is hitting Japan's tourism industry hard with the number of foreign visitors plung
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The United States sent Iran a blunt message this week: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isol
The Australian government is exploring the possibility of nationalizing companies as the economic fallout from COVID-19 continues. News Corp Australia reported on Friday that Prime Minister Scott Mo
06:46 Investors are factoring in a global recession while governments and central banks are shoring up economies bracing for what looks likely to be a short but deep global recession f
Editor's note: Anne O. Krueger is a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Senior Research Professor of International Econo
The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be p
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Tweets that put people at risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus as it rapidly spreads across the globe are to be removed by Twitter to help the public get accura
It was another brutal day on Wall Street as investors continue to come to grips with the new economic realities imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA
Back in 2017, a formerly hot, formerly profitable company called Blue Apron went public. It didn’t go well. Today as the global stock market continues to fall, shares in the former venture darli
Apple just dumped a bunch of hardware news online via press release. That’s just the world we live in right now. We’ll probably be seeing a whole lot of this in the coming weeks and months, as compani