Back in March, when the pall of the pandemic hung over the city, and long stretches of Broadway were as desolate as a dry creek bed, the New York Police…

Support for some state responses to pandemic reaches levels rarely seen in polling, researcher says Trust in government has soared to an “extraordinary” high during the pandemic, upending years of scepticism…

Blanka Goldman's land was sold to the Catholic Church by the Polish neighbor who saved her in WWII. After 10 years of legal battle and institutional resistance, Supreme Court rules…

Students in Saudi Arabia, like so many around the world, have traded in-person classrooms for logging onto an app during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’re also experiencing other major shifts…

The site became an outlet for rape tapes, child sexual abuse images, revenge porn and spycam videos. It acted far too late to deal with the problem Last week, on…

A dozen people are dancing around a bonfire in a yard between two large warehouses in São Paulo. It’s early November and members of Quilombaque—a Black community hub in Perus,…

The Century Foundation’s new initiative, “Nature and National Security in the Middle East,” aims to show why and how policy makers should incorporate the environment and climate change into all…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s long delay in recognizing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election will have significant negative consequences for the country, said journalist John Dickerson.…

Mary Lawlor, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said lawyers in China continue to be “charged, detained, disappeared and tortured”, five years on from a law…

IT WAS ONLY November, but the chill already cut to the bone in the small village of Dimitrovo, which sits just 35 miles north of the Chinese border in a remote…