『「ジューンティーンス」（英語: Juneteenth）（「6月」（June）と「19日」（nineteenth）の混成語であり[1]、「自由の日」（Freedom Day）[2]、「歓喜の日」（Jubilee Day）[3]、「解放の日」（Liberation Day）[4]としても知られる）は、アメリカ合衆国で…

Fielding questions from Russian and U.S. media, Putin deployed one of Moscow’s most reliable and vexing tactics from the Twentieth Century in blunting criticism from Washington: Whataboutism. ("Moscow's Long History of Turning the Table on…

The new drugs could not only fill the breach left by the vaccine-hesitant who are slowing the push in the U.S. and around the world to reach herd immunity, they could also serve as a backstop against breakthrough infections—cases of COVID-…

Nepal has administered about 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations so far among its population of 30 million. Unfortunately, many individuals that received the first dose have been unable to get their second dose to finish the treatment…

The COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly becoming an arms race among the emerging variants of the virus, and at the moment, there’s no question which one is winning: the Delta variant—formally known as B.1.617.2—one of four strains to have em…

Following the terror attacks that took place Sept. 11, 2001, people across the country began searching Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the same word. The word was not “rubble,” or “triage,” or even “terrorism,” but “surreal.” (Why …

This week, tragedy struck close to home. A student at the high school my older daughter will attend come fall was fatally shot near the soccer field where he excelled, as the New York Times headline eloquently put it. To say that it has sh…