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[Mark Buchanan] Virus could sway climate change doubters

Apr 27, 2020

If the coronavirus pandemic has made one thing clear, it’s that knowledge, preparation and science matter. Political spin can win elections and keep millions of people misinformed, but it doesn’t swa...
[Noah Smith] Virus crisis may keep Sanders revolution rolling

Apr 25, 2020

Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed presumptive candidate Joe Biden, it‘s worth considering just how profoundly Sanders seems to have shifted the policy land...
[Serendipity] Fear, distrust caused by virus spell doom for all

Apr 24, 2020

With the World Health Organization predicting that the coronavirus will not dissipate anytime soon, we are left to grapple with the stark reality of living with a highly contagious, still largely unk...
[Eric Teo] Look ahead to strengthen cooperation in the time of COVID-19

Apr 24, 2020

The first four months of 2020 have flashed by, and we are almost in May! Cold winter has given way to sunny spring and the beautiful flowers are blooming again. I still remember attending several tra...
[Ana Palacio] US cannot become another Europe

Apr 24, 2020

In 1946, with war-ravaged Europe exhausted and in disarray, Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in Zurich in which he emphasized the need to “recreate the European fabric” in o...
[Kim Myong-Sik] Time to reset economic goals, declare tolerance

Apr 23, 2020

On the day after the April 15 election, a lawyer friend of mine living in California sent me an SNS message, quoting French philosopher Joseph de Maistre: “Every nation gets the government it deserve...
[Keith Harrington] The spies who predicted COVID-19

Apr 23, 2020

Intelligence agencies are used to making headlines when they fail to do their job. But after months of US President Donald Trump ignoring their warnings about COVID-19, and after years of his adminis...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea’s political realignment

Apr 23, 2020

Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, South Korean voters went to the polls to choose a new National Assembly for the next four years. The ruling Democratic Party won a landslide victory, giving it an o...
[Mohamed Salah Eldin] Korea’s effort to overcome COVID-19: solidarity, alertness, innovation

Apr 22, 2020

“We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said this in a video news conference on March 19, urging urgent ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Letter from a senior to younger generations

Apr 22, 2020

The April election is over. The outcome was a landslide victory for the progressive ruling party and a total disaster for the conservative opposition party. Of course, opinion varies depending on th...
[Pankaj Mishra] Old media suddenly has upper hand

Apr 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has torn the veil off a long-obscured and frightening reality: Our economies are unconscionably fragile, propped up by low-wage jobs, and our health systems are tissue-thin. ...
[Noah Smith] We will recover faster if payroll is protected

Apr 21, 2020

The US government’s first economic relief bill to cope with the coronavirus shutdown was a stopgap measure. With employment in a free fall and businesses shutting down across the country, Americans n...
[Conor Sen] Be prepared for profitless recovery

Apr 19, 2020

Reopening the US economy is going to be a slow, painful process and nothing like turning a light switch back on. Economic activity and employment is going to be down significantly for a while. If th...
[Digital Simplicity] Unprecedented experiment with remote learning

Apr 18, 2020

South Korea is implementing an unprecedented educational experiment for remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the entire world. The question is whether the country can get...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Poorer nations need their own pandemic toolkit

Apr 17, 2020

With death rates beginning to peak in Western countries, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus crisis is moving toward the developing world. Yet bare hospitals, armies of informal workers and sprawl...