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Withdrawing even some of the U.S. troops, planes, drones and bombers from Afghanistan will reduce the killing.

...little attention is being paid to the millions of people in the most overcrowded conditions that are ripe for the spread of this contagious and deadly virus: the people behind bars in America’s jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers.

...when so much of the message that there’s nothing to worry about on climate change comes from think tanks like Cato, AEI, and ACSH that made unsupported and flawed calls on COVID-19, it’s worth taking a moment to pause and think about that as well

In terms of potential deaths and the impact on our economy, the crisis we face from coronavirus is on the scale of a major war, and we must act accordingly. We must begin thinking on a scale comparable to the threat...

States may shift primary dates, but only Congress can change the federal elections.

Voting by mail is key to ensuring the integrity and accessibility of November’s vote.

Proper planning can ensure that the pandemic does not prevent a free and fair election. To be effective, funding is urgently needed.

As Hughes’ international fame grew, he was being denigrated as a subversive and a communist by his own government.

In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online interactive dashboard, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, to visualise and track reported cases

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Brazil, yet President Bolsonaro has approved a new project to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups by an evangelical organization with a history of doing deadly harm to Indians.