Month: April 2022

The dire warning implicit in President Joe Biden’s more than $2 trillion American Jobs Plan — which promises to rebuild American infrastructure, create union jobs, “Biden is using his economic plan to challenge China”

In February, President Joe Biden announced that he was ending America’s “offensive” support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, six years into the conflict that “The US may still be helping Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war after all”

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 “GOP opposition to the Iran deal is threatening to sink a Biden Pentagon nominee”

It’s a momentous week for action on climate change. On Thursday, the White House is convening 40 world leaders for an Earth Day summit where “This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund”

India is facing a deepening Covid-19 crisis a year after it went into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. But this time around, authorities are “India can’t vaccinate its way out of its latest Covid-19 surge”

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 “5 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, 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 “Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.”

Since leaving government at the end of the Obama administration, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has spent the last four years calling for “Ben Rhodes is worried about Joe Biden’s climate change and China policies”

There’s a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, the former British premier: “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms “Joe Biden wants to prove democracy works — before it’s too late”