It’s a good time to be a virus, it seems. While everyone is likely well aware of the coronavirus pandemic, other viral diseases are also thriving, spreading locally and threatening already overwhelmed healthcare systems.
Michael Bloomberg, the wily billionaire hoping to dethrone Donald Trump as US president, took a beating this week while making his first appearance in a Democratic Party primary debate.
We’ve all been there—in some new place or situation, thumbing our phones, frantically trying to get online to download some obscure app, log in, receive a confirmation code, verify an email address, enter a pin.
The US election season officially kicks off on Monday in Iowa. It’s a famously low-tech affair.
US reaction to Iranian hostility has not always been proportional. When the country nationalized its oil industry in 1953—wresting control of it from Western petroleum companies—the United States orchestrated a coup, ousting the democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Just nine months after a lone gunman in Christchurch, New Zealand walked into one mosque and then another and opened fire, murdering 51 people, a countrywide ban on semiautomatic weapons took effect this weekend.
Quartz senior reporter for law and politics Ephrat Livni and geopolitics editor Peter Gelling talk about the ongoing Trump impeachment inquiry.
Senior reporter Tim Fernholz dials in live from the world’s biggest space conference, the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC, to discuss the state of the global push into space with geopolitics editor Pete Gelling.
Quartz geopolitics editor Pete Gelling, senior reporter Tim Fernholz, and reporter Justin Rohrlich discuss the economic and technical drivers that are changing the way armed conflict is fought, and what war might look like in our not-too-distant future.
Quartz geopolitics editor, Pete Gelling and reporter Annalisa Merelli discuss the issues that world leaders and diplomats are most focused on at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.
It’s finally happening. Democratic lawmakers say they have reached their breaking point. And so the US House of Representatives will formally look into the impeachment of Donald Trump.
The truth is, an impeachable offense is whatever the US Congress decides it is. That’s because impeachment isn’t really a legal response to perceived misconduct, it’s a political one.
The UN General Assembly, that annual diplomatic showstopper, is now in full swing. New York traffic patterns, alternatively, are at a standstill.
It bears reminding that the US is the original aggressor in the current conflict with Iran.
In February, the US House of Representatives passed sweeping gun-control legislation. But it was hardly news.
Another day, another mass shooting.
