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Next Steps for a People’s Vaccine
“The Biden administration’s decision to stop opposing a proposed COVID-19 waiver of certain intellectual-property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. But ending the pandemic also requires scaling up knowledge and technology transfer, as well as public production of vaccine supplies” (Ghosh 2021).
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
“If the importance of aerosol transmission had been accepted early, we would have been told from the beginning that it was much safer outdoors...our mitigations would have been much more effective, sparing us a great deal of suffering and anxiety” (Zeynep Tufecki, 2021).
How to spot the difference between a real climate policy and greenwashing guff
“Unless actions by governments and corporations cut emissions in the here and now, a dose of scepticism is in order” (Damian Carrington, 2021).
Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world
“The reality is that Trump used Facebook most effectively as an organizing and fundraising tool, not as a platform for ‘posting’” (Siva Vaidhyanathan, 2021).
The Limits to US-China Climate Cooperation
“The world desperately needs the United States and China to collaborate in addressing climate change, but no one should harbor any illusions. The best to be hoped for is that the two superpowers are disciplined enough to avoid endangering humanity’s survival as they jostle for geopolitical advantage” (Minxin Pei, 2021).
Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy
“America’s democracy is still in real danger" and is v"closer to a political civil war — more than at any other time in our modern history. Today’s seeming political calm is actually resting on a false bottom that we’re at risk of crashing through at any moment” (Friedman 2021).
Teenagers Are Struggling, and It’s Not Just Lockdown
“While many experts believe that the reason adolescents are struggling today is that they’re away from friends and school, a closer look at the research reveals...one of the biggest threats to the well-being of today’s teenagers is not social isolation but something else — the pressure to achieve” (Emily Esfahani Smith, 2021).
The Lurid Orientalism of Western Media
“By trafficking in images of death, suffering, and private acts of mourning, Western media coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in India has broken one of the first rules of journalism. And while a Western double standard is nothing new, applying it repeatedly does not make it more acceptable” (Brahma Chellaney, 2021).
Do You Live in a Political Bubble?
The authors “measured political isolation by looking at each voter’s thousand closest neighbors. For about one in five Republicans, and two in five Democrats, less than a quarter of their neighbors belong to the opposite political party” (Wezerek, Enos, and Brown, 2021).
Twisted Democracies
“Addressing within-country inequality may be the political imperative of the moment. But tackling vastly greater cross-country disparities – especially those affecting the two-thirds of humanity living outside the advanced economies and China – is the real key to maintaining geopolitical stability in the twenty-first century” (Kenneth Rogoff, 2021).
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