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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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
American Democracy Survives Its Brush With Death
“Looking at the bigger picture, Democrats were done in by extreme voices that Mr. Trump was able to link to their party. Defunding the police will never be popular outside a few lefty precincts. The whiff of socialism helped kill Democrats in Florida” (Timothy Egan, 2020).
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
“From an international perspective,...Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world...these people win elections but subvert democratic norms: by criminalizing dissent, suppressing or demonizing the media, harassing the opposition, and deploying extra-legal mechanisms whenever possible” (Zeynep Tufekci, 2020).
2020 Should Be the Last Time We Vote Like This
“The process of registering your democratic preference, the citizen’s core duty in a democracy. Can we take a moment to acknowledge how terribly inefficient, inaccessible, unfair and just plain backward this process remains in the United States?” (Farhad Manjoo, 2020).
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