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Europe's fight against the virus on many frontsThe latest wave of coronavirus in Europe appears to have peaked in the past few days, but not before records were broken that resulted in yet another string of shutdowns.The number of new cases…

Worrying peaks in AsiaThe coronavirus pandemic is taking a bad turn in parts of Asia. In Japan and South Korea, which had long managed to avoid the worst, the falls are climbing fast. And because Hong Kong is struggling with a spike, a…

The award committee praised Andrew Cuomo's "masterful use of television to inform and reassure people around the world".New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won an international Emmy award for his daily COVID-19 briefings during the first wave of…

The 300,000 students in the largest school system in the United States will return to distance learning on Thursday.

Would you like to receive The Morning by email? Here is the registration.Good Morning. Virus immunity is likely to last a long time. Biden is planning a "climate management". And positive action highlights an ongoing problem.…

A mystery of unproven vaccines in ChinaAlthough China's vaccine candidates have not been formally proven safe or effective, officials have injected them into thousands of people as part of an emergency policy to demonstrate their safety and…

Would you like to receive The Morning by email? Here is the registration.Good Morning. The vaccine news is good, but near-term developments will likely depend on government policies.Whenever I visited my local cafe this summer, there…

Would you like to receive The Morning by email? Here is the registration.Good Morning. The US and Europe are responding differently to the latest waves of viruses, and one approach works better than the other.Since the coronavirus has…

Would you like to receive The Morning by email? Here is the registration.Good Morning. It's another record day for virus cases. Obama's memoir received an ardent rating. And we look at why the polls were wrong.Make us fools for once…

But their real function, he argued in an interview, was to provide psychological comfort to those who are, and to give them a signal that their sense of persecution by the bright America was based not on racism but on clarity. They also…