Opinion

Sports in a bubble. That’s how return-to-play scenarios have been described. Empty stadiums. Teams quarantined in hotels between games and practices. Regular Covid-19 tests for all involved. The complicated plans…

Translated by Dick Cluster. Leer en español.Covering the coronavirus pandemic in Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit cities in South America, has become lethal for journalists. As of April 20,…

Read in English.Cubrir la pandemia del coronavirus en Guayaquil, una de las ciudades más afectadas en Sudamérica, ha resultado letal para el periodismo. Hasta el 20 de abril, 13 periodistas…

As the world grapples with the spread of Covid-19, we see a wide range of individual national responses to the pandemic. Different countries around the world are seeking to both…

A little while ago, we hosted some of the founders of The Weekly Mail, the predecessor to the Mail & Guardian where I am deputy editor. They were there to…

Was it reasonable to wonder if President Donald Trump began restricting, but not banning outright, travel from China on January 31 because of xenophobia rather than to avert the spread…

On April 7, 2020 a new slogan began circulating on Twitter during the Wisconsin Democratic primary: “Vote and Die.” The slogan is a play on “Vote or Die,” a 2004…

Armed with expansive emergency powers, many of the nation’s governors are placing unprecedented restrictions on our lives to slow the spread of the coronavirus. They have closed schools, shut down…

Denmark is known as a prototypical welfare state, and the country reacted as such from the moment the corona crisis emerged in Europe—with top-down and far-reaching measures from the central…

Over the past few days in the U.K., at least three cellphone masts have been set on fire, and telecoms engineers trying to keep the network stable have faced attacks…