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From Climate Change Awareness to Climate Crisis Action
"This report charts attitudes on the existence, causes, and impact of climate change in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also examines public attitudes to a series of policies that the EU and national governments could harness to reduce the damage inflicted by human-made emissions" (Eichhorn, Molthof, and Nicke, 2020).
Migrants with irregular status during the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons for local authorities in Europe
This paper shows “how the pandemic impacted irregular migrants residing in European cities”, analyses “the new policy scenarios impacting irregular migrants” and explores “initiatives and practices addressing the social challenges posed to this group of migrants by the pandemic and related lockdown measures and economic fallouts” (Mallet-Garcia and Delvino, 2020).
Only Truth Can Save Our Democracy
“People who do not share truths can’t defeat a pandemic, can’t defend the Constitution and can’t turn the page after a bad leader. The war for truth is now the war to preserve our democracy” (Thomas L. Friedman, 2020).
Feminist Open Government Research Projects
“The Feminist Open Government Initiative is an ambitious attempt to broaden the base of open government support by investing in cutting-edge research from partners in the Global South and a coalition building effort to rally reform champions behind a gender-centric approach to open government” (Open Government Partnership, 2019).
International Institutions Still Matter to the US
“With less preponderance and facing a more complex world, the United States must exercise power with as well as over others, and use its soft power to attract their cooperation. To do that, the US will have to rediscover the importance of the institutions Donald Trump's administration abandoned” (Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 2020).
Covid has made the state’s hand more visible but there are risks
“In the pandemic, the invisible hand of the market is giving way to the visible hand of state. The big question is not whether the state will be back, but what form its presence will take” (Beata Javorcik, 2020).
Biden Can’t Be F.D.R. He Could Still Be L.B.J.
“President-elect Joe Biden intuited that legions of Americans wanted a return to normal — a restoration, a reversion. The earnest hope in his promise “to restore the soul of America” was that the same country that uplifted Donald Trump and let itself be consumed by internet-fueled culture wars could heed its better angels again” (Anand Giridharadas, 2020).
Joe Biden and the New Art of World Leadership
“The contrast with Trumpism will quickly become apparent in Mr Biden’s approach to leadership, allies and engagement with international institutions. Writing in Foreign Affairs earlier this year, Mr Biden insisted that ‘America must lead again,” and that his foreign-policy agenda would “place the United States back at the head of the table’” (The Economist, 2020).
What COVID‑19 Reveals About Twenty‑First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity
“Twenty-first century capitalism features financialization and monopoly power. A structural perspective of contemporary political economy illuminates how these aspects shape the COVID-19 response...examining access to medicines, personal protective equipment and vaccines, inequality and working conditions highlights just some of what is broken and what needs to be fixed” (Susan K. Sell, 2020).
Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows
“Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which leaves them open to claims of censorship and masks the true costs of misinformation” (Joan Donovan, 2020).
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