In this article, “Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams” discuss “the hope for a global new deal” (Varoufakis and McWilliams, 2020).
“As we approach this year’s election, we’re looking at an abyss. The question is what will fill it. Societal disaster can have horrific political consequences: Around the world, despots are using the…
“There are times when government must curtail individual freedoms to protect the public. But those measures must end once the threat passes” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
“Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As the pandemic has spread fear, disease and death, national leaders across the globe have been severely tested...the…
"Society’s deepest concerns are rooted right now in two connected questions: how do we protect public health and how can we promote an economic recovery that is inclusive? A third question is…
"In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, laid out how European leaders had a rendezvous with history and needed to come together... By all measures, this rendezvous with history…
"Democracies are far more effective at combating national crises, but that hasn’t stopped despots across the world from trying to tighten their grip." (Smith and Cheesman, 2020)
“The first major crisis of the post-American world is ugly and is going to get worse. A pandemic required a pan-planet reaction. Instead it found Pangloss in the White House blowing smoke and…
"The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start… When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only…
Ahead of the 2020 election, “American voters will be adrift in a fog of disinformation, uncertain whether to believe anything they read or hear. As a result, there is likely to be an even more…
