By George Rennie After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme endpoint. Today, the US is not dominant, it is in crisis: convulsed by riots and protest, riven by a virus that has galloped away from those charged with overseeing it, and heading into a presidential election led by a man that has possibly divided the nation like no other before him.

Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink

By Jennifer Selin After a week of both peaceful protests and violent chaos in the wake of George Floyd’s death, President Donald Trump announced, “If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.

Can the president really order the military to occupy US cities and states?

By Johannes Lohse With coronavirus infection rates falling – and the predicted economic and welfare costs of lockdown so high – governments across the world have tentatively started lifting restrictions and reopening their economies.

Lockdowns: We need to experiment with reopenings now to prevent a second wave

By Lai-Ha Chan and Pak K Lee If the World Health Organization (WHO) wants to maintain its legitimacy on the world stage, it must now answer some tough questions about the extent it has kowtowed to China during the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Health Organisation must answer these hard questions in its coronavirus inquiry

By Thomas Strandberg By the beginning of April 2020, a large proportion of the world’s population was living in some level of isolation as their governments took measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Coronavirus outbreak: US and UK governments are losing public trust

By Aviva Guttmann In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, the crises of tomorrow can fester. A resurgence of Islamic State (IS) is likely to be one of them. In recent weeks, IS has carried out a spate of attacks on security forces in Iraq and different areas of Syria.

Islamic State could be about to hit back – and the world is paying little attention

By Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Ba-Linh Tran Vietnam – a developing country that has a large land border with China and a population of 97 million people – has not reported a single death from coronavirus.

Vietnam has reported no coronavirus deaths – how?

By Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook The number of coronavirus infections and deaths continues to rise at an alarming rate, reminding us that this crisis is far from over.

Coronavirus conspiracy theories are dangerous – here’s how to stop them spreading

By Naomi Forrester-Soto The recent emergence of the novel coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a spotlight on the risks that animals can pose to humans as the source of new viruses.

Coronavirus: Where do new viruses come from?

By Niki J P Alsford North Korea continues to insist that it is completely free of coronavirus. The World Health Organisation’s representative to the country said that 709 people had been tested with no confirmed cases as of April 2.

North Korea insists it has no coronavirus – how the state is managing the story

By Michael Skey and César Jiménez-Martínez The coronavirus pandemic cuts across borders, cultures and political systems. As the virus spread across the planet, global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) called for worldwide solidarity, arguing that “we’re all in this together and we can only stop it together”.

Coronavirus reveals how important the nation is to our daily lives

By Tom Duszynski The coronavirus is certainly scary, but despite the constant reporting on total cases and a climbing death toll, the reality is that the vast majority of people who come down with COVID-19 survive it.

What does ‘recovered from coronavirus’ mean?

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