The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to serve as a wake-up call, making the value of scientific expertise, medical research, and public-health preparedness impossible to ignore, let alone deny. But the ...

Under international law, the use of starvation as a weapon of war is strictly prohibited. By intentionally withholding food and other basic essentials despite glaring evidence of widespread hunger and ...

Tens of millions of people are currently enslaved around the world. Modern slavery is a hidden crime, so it's hard to get robust numbers, but the Global Slavery Indexestimated in 2014 that perhaps 36 ...