Europe
Total 8 Posts
How worried should we be about the coronavirus resurgence in Europe?
9 min read
Experts from France, Spain and the UK explain how Europe should respond to a rise in coronavirus cases.
Enslaved people’s health was ignored from the country’s beginning, laying the groundwork for today’s health disparities.
4 min read
The health care inequities suffered by Black Americans today began centuries ago. An understanding of the inequities of the past is an imperative. Only then can we begin to dismantle structural racism.
Herd immunity in Europe – Are we close?
4 min read
Waiting for herd immunity would cause hundreds of thousands of additional deaths.
Coronavirus: Europe struggles to adapt to a post-American world.
4 min read
Europeans once looked across the Atlantic for leadership in times of global crisis. But those days are over.
Coronavirus: Will the UK really have the highest death toll in Europe, as a US study suggests?
4 min read
We like being able to quantify things and it is easier to convince people of the importance of physical distancing if we can say that it will save 236,000 lives, even if this may not end up being the actual number.
Mr Trump’s proposed NATOME will be in the Middle East. That’s as ludicrous as the acronym.
2 min read
It would suggest an old-world way of paternalist thinking, Rashmee Roshan Lall argues.
Balzac praised the local grocer as ‘the strongest of social links’. The West isn’t picking up on it.
3 min read
When it comes to communal well being, never under-estimate the unique role of the local grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the greasy-spoon up the road.