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The crisis in Haiti is adding to the Biden administration’s slate of challenges in the Western Hemisphere, where officials had sought to focus on the flow of unauthorized migrants across the U.S.’s southern border.

Rising economic hardship from the Covid-19 pandemic has added to the longstanding drivers of migration, including Central America’s endemic criminal violence, two devastating

We have a new year and a new administration, but America’s crisis hasn’t yet passed. The dangerous forces unleashed over the past five years are still dominant in one major party and are increasingly potent in the other. Reining these dark elements in will take courage and honesty, two characteristics that have been in short supply in Washington. If we fail, the radicals will succeed in using

A former senior Health and Human Services adviser advocated this summer to let young and middle-aged Americans become infected with COVID-19 in order to develop "herd immunity," according to emails released Wednesday by the House committee overseeing the federal government's coronavirus response.

Why it matters: Without a vaccine, achieving herd immunity — in which widespread outbreaks

The European Union is a political long shot of an experiment that has survived all manner of existential threats this century: the migration crisis of the past half-decade, the 2008 financial crisis and the yearslong north-south divide within Europe over who should pay to resuscitate the Eurozone's economies, the 2005 votes of "no" to the European constitution, and, of course, Brexit.