For liberal journalists and editors who already had an aversion to populist leaders, the temptation to pin the blame on them for last year’s high excess mortality has been irresistible.

Latin American leaders on the right and left have not fared well against Covid. In other ways, too, the U.S. is increasingly resembling its neighbors to the south.

Audrey Tang empowered Taiwan’s citizens. Dominic Cummings lost out to British bureaucracy.

Even as the great and the good mingled in Davos, a deadly and highly contagious novel coronavirus was rapidly spreading around the world.

A major lesson of Covid-19 is that there is no distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes.

In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ‘Asian flu’ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering a stark contrast with today’s approach to Covid-19.

Take it from a Scot abroad: We don't need another referendum.

U.S. policy makers need to wake up to the potential of digital currency and electronic payments and the peril of allowing China to dominate them.

America is a diplomatic fox, while Beijing is a hedgehog fixated on the big idea of reunification.