U.S. Website Seizures Targeting Iran Cast Wide Net Over Dissident and Religious Broadcasters
The U.S. dragnet censored purported Iranian-linked disinformation sites with little explanation — and little room for accountability.
World
A U.S.-Mexico Pledge to End Disappearances Fails to Grapple With the Complicity of the State
The promise was a little-noticed outcome of Vice President Kamala Harris's recent meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Voices
I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate. What I Learned Helps Explain the Clash Over Covid-19’s Origins.
We should let science and evidence prevail while recognizing that science, like other disciplines, is shaped by competing interests.
The Coronavirus Crisis
India's Vaccine Makers Are Pandemic Profiteers, Not Humanitarians
The Indian government’s free-market approach to vaccine distribution has privileged profit over lives.
The Coronavirus Crisis
U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Hamper the Global Fight Against Covid-19
Critics say the sanctions undermine U.S. ambitions to vaccinate the world, while new polling shows a clear majority favors a policy change.
Bolivian Ex-Minister of Defense Plotted a Second Coup Using U.S. Mercenaries
Leaked phone recordings and emails reveal a top official was prepared to use foreign troops to block Bolivia’s left-wing MAS party from returning to power.
Voices
The G7 Upheld Vaccine Apartheid. Officials From the “Global South” Are Pushing Back.
A summit of government ministers is trying to tackle the inequities of Covid-19 vaccine distribution that could cost millions of lives.
Israel's New Leaders Won't Stop "Death to Arabs" Chants, but They Will Feel Bad About Them
Israel's "change coalition" facilitated, then criticized, a Jewish supremacist rally in East Jerusalem, where Palestinians were threatened by racists and assaulted by the police.
The Coronavirus Crisis
The Vaccine Divide
"Why should the knowledge that is required to end the pandemic be kept secret?"
Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap Between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Europe is developing phone-cracking technology with a company that has exported to authoritarian regimes.