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The COVID-19 Crisis

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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    Remembering the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine explains why future preparedness requires commemorating the millions of lives claimed by COVID-19.
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    Best Practices for Calamity-Ready Governments

    Ngaire Woods highlights several steps that cash-strapped countries can take to enhance crisis preparedness.
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    What Will It Take to Prevent Future Pandemics?

    William A. Haseltine calls for new detection and surveillance methods focusing on the four essential properties of zoonosis.
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    Getting Drug Development Right

    Mariana Mazzucato shows how the health-innovation process could be reconceived to serve the common good.
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    A Path Out of the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine calls for more resources to develop antiviral therapies to stay ahead of future coronavirus mutations.
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    Decolonizing Global Health Leadership

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor applauds Muhammad Ali Pate’s appointment as CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

    sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
  4. fulford1_John MooreGetty Images_pandemic John Moore/Getty Images

    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
  5. slaughter97_Miguel PereiraGetty Images_workingfromhome Miguel Pereira/Getty Images

    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
  9. wian29_Kevin FrayerGetty Images_chinagraduates Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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