Hindsight can be an asset during an epidemic: Lessons from the past help steer public decision-making and avoid repeating mistakes. Unfortunately, rearview mirrors appear to be in short supply these days. For
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There has been plenty of talk about how the coronavirus might affect politics in China, for example by eroding trust between the Chinese public and its leadership. In the U.S., however, the
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As the gateway for China’s trade with the world for more than 70 years, Hong Kong might be expected to benefit from the phase one deal that Beijing will sign
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On a recent day in Denver, snow fell just eight hours after the Mortality rates are indeed much higher during Most of this increase is due to
China hawks are chastising President Donald Trump’s “ In one typical critique, experts at the Peterson Institute, a Washington think tank, Until recently, mainstream economists and policymakers
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Whoever came up with the Article 50 process for leaving the European Union probably never thought it would be used, let alone turned into a maddening form of procedural torture
How worried should we be about Starbucks’s recent announcement that it plans to begin testing a new type of store that only takes orders via mobile app — no cashiers? At
With flashing red eyes and a swiveling head, Yuuji Ohta’s robot wolf bares its white canines and lets out an array of ghastly growls. A matted coat of brown
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Donald Trump is an unpopular president. According to the But as the president meets with leaders of the other G7 countries in the French resort city of
Donald Trump’s Since his election as president, Trump has needled every Nordic nation except Iceland (though his son Eric reportedly had an abortive Trump first trolled
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