Peace out: from bad to worse in Yemen
The Saudi-backed government is hobbled; separatism is spreading; a humanitarian crisis grows by the day. A rebel advance on a once-safe city will only prolong a grinding war. We look at the scourge of...
4 Jun 202123min
Catch-up mustered: Europe’s vaccination drive
The bloc seems at last to have a firm hand on inoculation and recovery—but efforts to engineer even progress among member states are not quite panning out. In recent years Bangladesh’s government has ...
3 Jun 202120min
Swiping rights: Republicans’ vote-crimping bids
A walkout in the Texas legislature is just the most dramatic of broad efforts to restrict voting rights—in particular of minority voters. We examine the risks to America’s democracy. Changes in climat...
2 Jun 202119min
Bibi, it’s cold outside: Israel’s improbable coalition
The only thing that unites the parties of a would-be government is the will to oust Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. What chance their coalition can secure political stability? A new report reveals ...
1 Jun 202120min
From the head down: rot in South Africa
Jacob Zuma, a former president, at last answers to decades-old corruption allegations. But graft still permeates his ANC party and government at every level. The pandemic’s hit to parents—particularly...
31 Mai 202122min
Caught in the activists: oil majors’ shake-ups
Activist investors installed green-minded board members at ExxonMobil; Chevron’s shareholders pushed a carbon-cutting plan; a Dutch court ruled Shell must cut emissions. We examine a tumultuous week f...
28 Mai 202119min
On the origins and the specious: the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak theory
The suggestion that the virus first emerged from a Chinese laboratory has proved stubbornly persistent; as calls mount for more investigation, it has become a potent epidemiological and political idea...
27 Mai 202120min
From out of thin air: Belarus dissidents' fates
The regime got its quarry—a widely read, dissident blogger and his girlfriend—but faces international condemnation for its piratical means. How to pressure what is increasingly a pariah state? Our cor...
26 Mai 202121min
