Video by Beth Murphy transcript Why Are Children Dying of the Flu in U.S. Detention? Despite a readily available vaccine, it’s not being given to migrant children. I started doing this because of a 16-year-old boy who died in a U.S. government detention center. His name was Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. He was a healthy […]

Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, two icons of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, are going to prison. On Wednesday, Joshua was sentenced to 13.5 months, Agnes to 10 months and a third defendant, Ivan Lam, to seven months, for inciting, organizing or participating in an unlawful assembly at Hong Kong Police Headquarters in June 2019. (They […]

Rumbles of discontent from Conservatives in the U.K. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering a lawmaker revolt over virus restrictions in England, the Kremlin’s new peacekeeping role and a heartwarming entomological stick-meets-leaf story. In England, a rebellion over coronavirus restrictions Less than a year after Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain won a landslide […]

CBDC. Get used to that acronym because you’re going to see a lot more of it. CBDC stands for “central bank digital currency”. How would it work? To take a simplified example, let’s say the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issues a CBDC. It allows individuals to hold deposit accounts at the MAS, and everybody […]

Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. It’s Giving Tuesday, and we have a few ideas related to the news. In the internet’s early days, it seemed to have the potential to crush traditional print media. But its impact has turned out to be more nuanced. The internet has instead […]

The dark winter ahead for the U.S. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering the grim coronavirus trends in the U.S., a push for change at NATO and more job losses to globalization in France. ‘The next three months are going to be just horrible’ With coronavirus vaccines and a new presidential administration on the […]

When Joe Biden is inaugurated, he will immediately be confronted with an unprecedented challenge — and I don’t mean the pandemic, although Covid-19 will almost surely be killing thousands of Americans every day. I mean, instead, that he’ll be the first modern U.S. president trying to govern in the face of an opposition that refuses […]

President-elect Joe Biden has begun to announce his intended cabinet nominees, and it’s an impressive and diverse group: his picks include an experienced African-American diplomat for ambassador to the United Nations; the first Latino nominated as homeland security secretary; and the first woman tapped to serve as director of national intelligence. Mr. Biden has remained […]

Bergamo’s needlessly high death toll. By Natasha Frost Good morning. We’re covering how tragedy unfolded in the Italian region of Bergamo, the latest from the conflict in Tigray and mass protests over France’s new security bill. How an Italian province became a virus tragedy In the spring, the northern Italian province of Bergamo became one […]

With the assassination by Israel of Iran’s top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden’s job from day one. President-elect Biden knows the region well, but if I had one piece of advice for him, it would be this: This is not the Middle East you left four years ago. […]