It was the best of times, then—with shocking suddenness—it was the worst of times. An epidemic strikes the world’s most powerful nation, crippling its economy and threatening to collapse its civil and ...

Epidemics rank among the worst traumas that can befall a society. Their impact goes far beyond the sheer loss of human lives, every one of them valuable. Disease can recast the fates of peoples, ...

Six months of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more than 115,000 deaths, staggering unemployment, closed schools, overrun food banks and renewed attention to the "pandemic within a ...

In the summer of 2017, in the last few weeks of Steve Bannon’s tenure at Donald Trump’s side, an otherwise obscure Greek name kept getting trotted out during policy discussions— Thucydides of Athens ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Plague of Athens VR Plague of Athens tells the story of Nikos of Athens, a physician during history’s first recorded pandemic, 429 BCE, who struggles to ...