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Though “supply chain” became a household term only in the past generation, it has been around since humans have been engaging in commerce. One...

Even success stories such as Singapore are struggling to contain their COVID-19 outbreaks.

There are more confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. than in any other country.

The U.S. Senate has reached a deal on an emergency fiscal package.

The pandemic will deepen differences between the urban and the rural.

Italy recorded its second straight day of reduced cases.

The global medical community appears to have devised a strategy for mitigating the coronavirus that depends largely on quarantine, or limiting contact among the...

The grimmest estimates can be helpful for policymakers to know what they need to prepare for.

Turkey accused Russia of failing to live up to its promises, and the Bank of Korea said Pyongyang was running out of cash.

Introduction A year is an arbitrary moment. It is short, its length determined by a planet’s rotation around a sun. It is merely a moment in a longer and more complex tale in which figures who tower for a time pass by unnoticed, when the triumphs and tragedies that rivet us all fade away, all […]

(click to enlarge) Scale: Hit, Partial Hit, Inconclusive, Partial Miss, Miss A Cycle Ends The U.S. and China will reach a deal on trade, but it won’t end the trade war. Hit China and the U.S. were seemingly inches from a deal for nearly the entire year, but they repeatedly struggled to push negotiations across […]

South Korea, China and Japan hold talks on regional security, and Armenia beefs up its military.