Life sentences? Prisons and covid-19
Outbreaks among inmates are all but inevitable. Efforts at prison reform that were already under way will get a boost, because now they will save lives. We examine the international variation in what ...
27 Mar 202022min
Going to townships: covid-19 threatens Africa
Governments across the continent have had a head start, but that will not address some worrying systemic problems many of them share. Ventilators are now a bottleneck in critical covid-19 care; we ask...
26 Mar 202022min
Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid
As American lawmakers reach a deal on the country’s largest-ever rescue package, we examine how planners are balancing the health of their citizens and that of their economies. China’s lockdown came i...
25 Mar 202022min
Trial, trial again: the race for covid-19 treatments
The world’s scientists are swiftly identifying drugs that may help with the pandemic, and setting out on the long road toward a vaccine. Ethiopia’s prime minister has been hailed as a peacemaker—so wh...
24 Mar 202023min
Continental shift: covid-19 grips Europe
The novel coronavirus is spreading around the world, but its grip on Europe is curiously tight; we ask why, and what to expect next. We pay a visit to Colombia, which is suffering a refugee crisis it ...
23 Mar 202023min
Lessons unplanned: school shutdowns spread
Schools are closing down as covid-19 measures take hold; we look into the social, economic and educational costs for a world thrust into distance learning and homeschooling. Wild market swings have re...
20 Mar 202022min
Pandemic, meet politics: the US-China spat
Prior tensions have blunted the chances for a co-ordinated response to covid-19—and both countries are fighting a grand ideological battle alongside an epidemiological one. India has so far reported f...
19 Mar 202021min
Drawbridges up: lockdowns and covid-19
Borders are closing; suggestions to stay home are becoming mandates. We examine how the national responses to covid-19 have varied, and how they may be converging. In America, Joe Biden cemented his l...
18 Mar 202022min
