NEW YORK — The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19.

NEW YORK — America is two cultures in one nation.

NEW YORK — The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 is easily misunderstood. Shaken by the ordeal, members of Congress have issued statements explaining that America is a nation of laws, not mobs.

NEW YORK — The year 2020 was a harrowing one, with the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide economic reversals, widespread climate-related disasters, pervasive social unrest, and even US President Donald Trump’s phony claims about massive electoral fraud and calls among his backers for m

NEW YORK — Kudos to the European Commission for finalising a new investment agreement with China.

NEW YORK — Sixty years ago next May, president John F. Kennedy put the United States on a mission to the future. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

NEW YORK — Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policymakers, US President Donald Trump’s infection is of his own making.

NEW YORK — The G-20 ministers of finance meet this week under the auspices of Saudi Arabia, which holds the group’s presidency this year. But it is hard to imagine the G-20 countries leading the world, as they like to pretend that they do.

NEW YORK — Three countries — the United States, Brazil, and Mexico — account for nearly half (46 per cent) of the world’s reported COVID-19 deaths, yet they contain only 8.6 per cent of the world’s population.