If you ask John M. Barry, bestseller author of The Great Influenza: the Deadliest Plague in History, why he decided, years ago, to write about the specific topic of the 1918 Spanish flu, he answers: “Things happen. Oddly enough, I...
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to escalate in Europe and the US, American President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have all either brought in or intend to introduce their own separate...
Three months after COVID-19 first appeared in China, US President Donald Trump has determined who to blame for the resulting global health pandemic: the World Health Organization. On Tuesday, he announced that he would cut American funding for the international...
David Quammen predicted everything. In his book the Spillover, published in Italy by Adelphi, the American writer analyzed the possibility that a new virus could turn the world upside down. Quammen called this event “the Next Big One.” After the...
After exiting the Democratic race to be the nominee for President of the United States last week, Bernie Sanders has now officially endorsed former VP Joe Biden to lead the nation. The move was essential to prevent a second Trump...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on how unprepared most states were for a crisis of its magnitude. Most directly, the world collectively faces a critical shortage of essential equipment for fighting this pandemic including face masks and life-saving...
OPEC countries and Russia’s allies recently agreed in principle to cut their oil output by more than a fifth and said that they expected the US and other nations to join in their effort to prop up prices that have...
For weeks, it had been inevitable. Trailing by almost three hundred delegates and with no conceivable path to the nomination left, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic Race. It marks the end of his quest to lead...
Oil tariffs may soon be coming from the Trump administration. On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said tariffs are one of the options he is considering to rescue the American oil industry that has seen its revenues free-fall. “I am...
After President Donald Trump repeatedly failed to assure New York State that the federal government would supply enough ventilators, saying it had more states to worry about, China — among other American states — sent supplies instead. China Helps New...