Misinformation has been a part of political life in the Middle East and North Africa for years; the coronavirus era has proved no exception. A volatile region where three wars are being fought can ill afford coronavirus-related lies and nationalistic pandemic one-upmanship.

To beat back chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, human behavior has to change.

The announcement sent ripples throughout the international health community: On April 23, 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that seven children suffering from paralysis in the poor former Soviet country of Tajikistan were victims of poliomyelitis. Genetic sequencing showed that the virus had probably arrived with a traveler from India. It was the first importation of polio into Europe since 2002, when the region was certified as polio-free.

In less than seven years, Chinese physicists went from launching a new hydrogen bomb research program to desperately searching foreign newspapers for any details about the H-bomb to successfully detonating a full-yield 3.3 megaton hydrogen bomb. In this feature article, a Chinese scholar tells the untold story of China’s hydrogen bomb development.

When the U.S. military struck at suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia, it showed its ability to strike anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the response afterward also showed that the United States still lacks a clear vision or strategy concerning how it should integrate "hard power" counterterrorism tactics with more "soft power" capabilities.

In spring 2018, news of the water crisis in South Africa ricocheted around the world—then the story disappeared. So what happened?

The nuclear weapons states seem to have accepted the idea that a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons—known informally as the ban treaty—could indeed be the result of a UN conference being held this June and July in New York City. Nevertheless, some observers maintain that even if a ban treaty were to be negotiated, it … Continued

Fact-checking websites now exist around the world. These organizations, some grassroots, others connected to larger media companies, have been helping to tamp down on the spread of coronavirus misinformation.

When we think about controlling the budget, we think about things like Medicare, Social Security, and urgent domestic needs such as education and alternate minimum taxes. But the most urgent fiscal and planning challenge the next president will face is the defense budget.

Due to COVID-19, the supply chain for meat is buckling. That's leaves an opening for plant-based alternatives from companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. Sales of alternative meat products in grocery stores went up 264 percent, reported an outside survey.

Hailed as a harbinger of peace in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords are likely to increase the proliferation of armed drones in the region.

The Senate has basically ignored arms control for years. It doesn't have to be that way.

This past Memorial Day, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the throat of an African-American, George Floyd, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Seventy-five years ago, an American pilot dropped an atomic bomb on the civilian population of Hiroshima. Worlds apart in time, space, and scale, the two events share three key features. Each was an act of state violence. Each was an act carried out against a defenseless opponent. Each was an act of naked racism.