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The Arctic is now open for business year-round after a large commercial ship sailed the Northern Sea Route from Jiangsu, China, to a Russian gas plant on the Arctic coast,Continue readingThe latest consequence of climate change: The Arctic is now open for business year-round

President Joe Biden has been presented with three broad options for how to prolong or end America’s involvement in the 20-year Afghanistan War — and all three have significant drawbacksContinue readingLeave now, extension, or indefinite stay: Biden’s 3 bad Afghanistan options

Hong Kong transformed in a year. Starting in June 2019, the city convulsed with protests over a controversial extradition bill. That expanded into a pro-democracy movement that sought to pushContinue readingA pro-democracy activist on Hong Kong’s year of turmoil: “The city itself is dying”

Twelve of the richest European soccer teams came up with an ingenious scheme to make even more money: Instead of taking part in a longstanding tournament with poorer and mostlyContinue readingSoccer fans destroyed the Super League

President Joe Biden’s pick to be the third-highest civilian leader at the Pentagon is already facing a tough confirmation challenge a week before his hearing — and it’s mostly becauseContinue readingGOP opposition to the Iran deal is threatening to sink a Biden Pentagon nominee

This story is one in our six-part series The Pandemic Playbook. Explore all the stories here. DAEGU, South Korea — Jo Hye-min stepped off the train and into a situationContinue readingSouth Korea’s Covid-19 success story started with failure

For decades, South Africa was under apartheid: A series of laws divided people by race. Then, in the 1990s, those laws were dismantled. But many of the barriers they createdContinue readingWhy South Africa is still so segregated

The United States has an aggressive new commitment for fighting climate change: cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent relative to 2005 levels in less than aContinue reading5 things to know about the new US climate commitment

The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom he has tried to kill: Alexei Navalny. Having defiantly returnedContinue readingAlexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained

This story is one in our six-part series The Pandemic Playbook. Explore all the stories here. Every January or February, Le The Linh and his wife pack their children intoContinue readingVietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.